The Enterprisers Project assembled a group of seasoned IT leaders in an interactive exchange to discuss how they're using DevOps in their organizations. Here are highlights from the conversation.

Increasing the speed and efficiency of the application development cycle has been a goal since the first applications were created and deployed. The increased use of combined development and deployment techniques that make up DevOps has made what was often long and frustrating into a more streamlined process. Richard Miller, CTO at Mocavo.com employs DevOps practices and advises a paced approach for organizations implementing the processes for the first time.

Computerworld weighed in with a strong feature yesterday on “the message coming in loud and clear from every corner of the tech and business sectors”: namely, the need for IT pros to think and speak strategically.

Any IT leader worth his or her salt is going to be constantly thinking about whether they are staying relevant to the business. Operating according to the status quo doesn’t cut it any longer -- not with constantly nagging trends like instant access to cloud computing resources and user-friendly mobile apps designed for addressing business needs.