G4S CIO says DevOps a cultural problem for business, not IT

Stuart Sumner
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Agile and iterative methodologies are simply a technical change for IT, but moving away from waterfall is a bigger challenge for the business, says Nick Folkes

Security firm G4S is moving to a DevOps software development model, but the real cultural challenge will be for the business rather than IT staff, according to group CIO Nick Folkes. "In my expe...

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