We are today announcing the 2017 DevOps Dozen finalists. When I first came up with the idea of the DevOps Dozen 3 years ago, I hoped that one day it would grow into an award that really did recognize the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space. In its third year, I am happy to report that the DevOps Dozen has achieved its mission. This year our categories, the votes, the process and the judges are all aligned to bring you what we think is the strongest DevOps Dozen finalists ever.
We had to go through thousands of votes, many of them write-ins to pick out the six finalists in each category. It was not an easy task as we couldn’t automate it, we had to do it by hand. We opened nominations back in early October. Many thanks to the team here at DevOps.com for going through them all. We have notified the finalists in each category and they are submitting information which we will pass onto our panel of judges, who will pick the winner in each of the 12 categories (it is the DevOps DOZEN). We will announce the winners in early January, so stay tuned.
Before I give you the lists of finalists though, a quick thank you to our panel of judges who will now pick the winners. George Hulme, Ericka Chickowski, Jayne Groll, Helen Beal and Rob Stroud, along with myself will now have the tough job of picking among the best group of finalists we have ever seen. BTW, you can see a much better version of this finalist list by jumping over to the DevOps Dozen site.
Here are your finalists:
Category 1 – Best DevOps Open Source Project
Category 2 – Best DevOps Commercial Solution
- CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise
- IBM Cloud Garage
- CA Automic Release Automation
- Datical
- XebiaLabs DevOps Platform
- Electric Cloud Electric Flow
Category 3 – Best DevOps Solution Provider Exec
- Sacha Labourey/Kohsuke Kawaguchi
- Steve Robinson
- Jeff Scheaffer
- Jennifer Tejada
- Rachel Reinitz
- Todd DeLaughter
- Yoav Landmen
Category 4 – Best DevOps Solution Provider
Category 5 – Most Innovative DevOps Solution of the Year
- CA Continuous Delivery Director
- CloudBees DevOptics
- Chef Habitat
- IBM DevOps Insights
- Electric Cloud DevOps Insight
- Tricentis Tosca
Category 6 – Top DevOps Evangelist
- Brian Dawson, CloudBees
- Sanjeev Sharma, IBM
- Aruna Ravichandran, CA Technologies
- Robert Reeves, Datical
- Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog
- Derek Weeks, Sonatype
Category 7 – Best DevOps Transformation
Category 8 – DevOps Transformation Leader
- Brock Beatty, Capital One
- John Comas, NBC Universal
- Dawie Olivier, Westpac
- Alice Raia, Kaiser Permanente
- Paula Thrasher, CSRA Inc.
- Pauly Comtois, Hearst Business Media
Category 9 – Best New DevOps Solution Company
Category 10 – Best DevOps Book/ebook
- A Seat at the Table, Mark Schwartz
- DevOps Adoption Playbook, Sanjeev Sharma
- DevOps for Digital Leaders, Aruna Ravichandran, Kieran Taylor, Peter Waterhouse
- Starting at Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise, Gary Gruver, Jez Humble (Foreword)
- The Science Behind DevOps, Nichole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
- Making Work Visible, Dominica Degrandis
Category 11 – Best DevOps Presentation
- Next Generation of Continuous Delivery Containers, Robert Stroud, Eric Minick
- The 10 Commandments of Continuous Delivery, Viktor Farcic
- Is Your Testing a Trick or Treat? The New Paradigm of Testing in a DevOps World, Adam Auerbach
- DevOps: The New Reality for Enterprise Transformation, Angel Diaz, Gene Kim, John Comas, David Lindquist, CJ Paul
- What We Learned from the 2016 State of DevOps Report – Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble, RSA DevSecOps
- What Legacy government organizations need to advance the state of DevOps, Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman
Category 12 – Best DevOps.com Article
- Why DevOps Requires a new operating model, Mustafa Kapadia
- Continuous Testing: Solving the Biggest Bottle Neck, Aruna Ravichandran
- Get the Full DevOps Picture with the CD Map, Scott Wilson
- Should You Go Serverless, the pros and cons, Asaf Yigal
- 7 Best practices for continuous delivery success, Yani Yehuda
- Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference? ,Chris Tozzi
Good luck to all of the finalists!
Also if you want to be included in next years DevOps Dozen awards you need to subscribe to DevOps.com and look for announcements next September.
