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2021 Is the Great Filter for CIOs It’s Time to Enable Digital Transformation or the Business is Going to Find Someone that Will
Introduction 2021 is the time to throw away incremental improvements. CIOs and CTOs need to aggressively establish new capabilities and drive digital transformation. Being aggressive means engaging and partnering with business stakeholders on technology projects that...
The IT Product Owner: A Make or Break Role for Digital Transformation
The role of the IT product owner is required for doing cloud and digital at scale. Enterprise companies that successfully develop digital products know a critical success factor is having a cloud-native platform that’s built as a product for developers and engineers....
Factory vs Cloud-Native Choose Your Path Wisely When It Comes to Data and Machine Learning Success
Introduction Everyone who is shifting to build new technical solutions in the cloud comes upon the same fork in the road. Do we take how we operate today and shift it to work in the cloud, which will provide some incremental benefit? Or do we completely reimagine how...
Architecture isn’t Going Away. It’s just Changing. Gone are the days of a single centralized group.
Cloud, cross-functional teams, product development, and agile are changing what organizations need from their architects. Enterprise IT leaders realize they need to help architects evolve, and this starts by evaluating the major functions of architecture groups....
Backlog Item Sizing with the BreakFree SprintEstimator
The best teams mature through their use of Agile skills, daily standups, retrospectives, and planning sessions being executed by cross-functional team members, product owners, and stakeholders – all going in the same direction. Sizing product backlog items (PBIs) is a...
Busting the DevOps vs ITIL Myth
IT leaders who have successfully driven digital transformation understand that the very idea of DevOps vs ITIL is invalid. These leaders realize it’s a distraction tactic used by vendors and advisors who benefit from IT staying the same or radically changing. The...
High-Velocity Cloud Security at Scale Insight Report
Establishing a proactive, high-velocity cloud security framework is required in today’s cloud-focused enterprises. Over the past few years, BreakFree Solutions has put our clients on the path to effective cloud usage by establishing and scaling a new cloud security...
BreakFree Enterprise DevOps Framework Insight Report
Everyone is looking to take advantage of the benefits cloud computing offers. However, most enterprise IT cloud computing efforts involve replicating onpremise infrastructure in the cloud (i.e. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), automated VMs). To actually take...
How to Successfully Deploy Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) at Scale Insight Report
The future of enterprise IT applications is in the cloud, and enterprises understand that containers and cloud-native design are the promised land. It’s safe to assume that container popularity and usage will grow even more significant with Microsoft’s introduction of...
Three Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2018 Solutions Engineer Margaret Valtierra With Some AWS Deep Thoughts After Attending re:Invent
This year I attended AWS re:Invent representing the Chicago AWS User Group I run. I also went with my client project in mind – I’m working as both a cloud engineer and a security architect with my BreakFree Solutions coworkers and clients on a DevOps team...