Digital transformation is about transforming an organisation so that it can succeed in today’s digital age. The mistake many make is in thinking it is about just one thing like building digital products, or adopting Agile, or making use of digital channels. In truth it is about all these things and more. Digital transformation is about transforming the whole business, including how the company thinks, acts, operates and competes.

Docker is a big thing in the DevOps community. It’s one of those technology enablers which has really enabled the DevOps ways of working. It has helped simplify the building and deployment of software, particularly moving the software from one environment to another. So this all sounds good, but what exactly is Docker?

With everyone seeming to now do DevOps in some form, we thought it useful to share our top ten pitfalls we see at EnfuseGroup when it comes to adopting DevOps at the enterprise level.

Are we really ready for big data? As we watch the world rapidly change around us with decisions being based on gut rather than facts, I find myself questioning the intelligence of humanity and its readiness to make sense of big data.

Doing Agile in small pockets is relatively easy to kick off and make work - the real challenge is doing this at scale. Just like waterfall project delivery, there are significant challenges in ensuring alignment and the right focus when you have multiple initiatives running simultaneously with cross dependencies, impacting the same users and systems, all calling out for funding.

To get the full benefits of Agile you need multifunctional teams and to be organised around products. These require fundamental organisation redesign. Companies who choose to ignore or water down this fact will always struggle to realise the full benefits of Agile.

The most popular and proven method of kick starting your adoption of Agile into your organisation is to start with a pilot project, see how it works for you (and where it doesn't), and to then scale out from there.

There’s a big push currently (notably from the likes of Gartner) for IT departments to create a bi-modal capability. This dual-mode of operating is in response to the digital shift we’ve seen in recent years which has repositioned the role of IT in the organisation.