Enterprises are adopting agile and DevOps methodologies because they focus on minimizing the latency of software delivery and the distance between “aha” and “ka-ching.” Jacob Ukelson says that judicious adoption of these methodologies can increase both velocity and quality, but inappropriate adoption can be disastrous—from an end-to-end quality perspective. Agile’s focus on iterative development and user involvement already has affected testing by increasing the emphasis on testing by developers themselves, component test automation, and by embedding testers in agile teams. DevOps...
Jacob Ukelson
JU Consulting
Jacob Ukelson has focused on the application side of enterprise software for more than twenty-five years. Jacob started his software career at IBM’s TJ Watson research lab and has since been a CTO/product manager/BizDev executive for both large established software companies and startups. He started the DevOps period of his career four years ago as VP product strategy at Noliosoft (now CA), focused on application release automation. Since leaving CA, Jacob has been consulting with companies that provide different pieces of the end-to-end enterprise delivery puzzle. In his spare time Jacob is developing LectureMonkey, the world’s first mobile lecture capture solution for students.