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Welcome to Bob Aiello’s CM Best Practices Consulting where we lead your organization on the journey to implementing Configuration Management,  ALM and DevOps best practices.

Between leading the IEEE 2675 DevOps (now ISO/EIA/IEEE 32675) and the IEEE P828 Configuration Management working groups and authoring Configuration Management Best Practices, everyone knows that Bob’s the consultant that you need when you have a regulatory agency breathing down your neck. Now you can train with him, too. ​

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We have helped many organizations assess and improve their CM and DevOps practices. Contact us to learn how we can help you!

Bob is the man behind IEEE 2675/ISO 32675 (Standard for DevOps). As the Working Group Chair, Bob both envisioned the need for and led the effort to establish principles and processes to build, package, and deploy systems and applications in a reliable and secure way. The IEEE P2675 DevOps Working Group is now focusing on creating a family of DevOps Standards including P2675.1 Software/Systems/Service Reliability Engineering (SRE), P2675.2 Observability – up next DevSecOps and Platform Engineering. Contact Bob on Linkedin to join the IEEE P828 Configuration Management (CM) or P2675 DevOps Working groups.

Bob is also the author of several books on Configuration Management Best Practices, DevOps and Application Lifecycle Management and the editor of the Agile ALM DevOps Journal.

As found on Amazon:
1. Configuration Management Best Practices
2. Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Using DevOps to Drive Process, as well as numerous other books and articles. 

Bob doesn’t remember a time when he wasn’t incorporating DevOps principles into his life. Before Bob’s name was synonymous with success, he was just a blind kid. Since growing up with a white cane presented some unique challenges, Bob learned to constantly assess his environment, begin hypothesizing as to how he could overcome obstacles, pilot a solution and adjust as needed, and both examine failures for lessons learned and celebrate successes. Today, those are the very same steps he uses in his training and consulting practice.  

Bob’s mission is to help you accelerate your application delivery while saving you time and money and staying more secure than ever before. Unless you have been hybernating for the winter you know that Artificial Intelligence today is a must-have. We are focused on using AI in all aspects of our work for improved velocity and productivity. Equally important is understanding how configuration management, ALM and DevOps can help your adoption of AI be more effective. Message us to discuss how we can help your organization achieve success with AI adoption.

Ask us about accessibility and WCAG and we will explain how to create inherently accessible systems fully aligned with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

“Robert is a dedicated professional who manages complex projects across numerous platforms and operating systems. He is a key contributor at CM Crossroads and possesses tremendous technical and communications skills across the IT industry. His personal commitment to the success of every project he is tasked to work on is outstanding!”

DAVID SUTHERLAND

Senior I/T Specialist, IBM

“I met Bob when he was brought in to Bear Stearns to take charge of the integration process and, later, the firm’s source code management system – a critical pillar of our systems, and one in which process is vital, but which frankly had not previously received as much attention as it required. Bob revolutionized our approach, creating not only a process from scratch, but painstakingly and patiently educating the firm’s IT community in both it and in the product we used at the time (Clearcase).”

DAVID KALFUS

Senior Engineer, American Express

“I’ve known Bob for a number of years now and in that time I have always found him to be a man of great principles and honor. It was with great pleasure that I found he had accepted the position of EiC at CM Crossroads. Bob will be exceptional in this role as he is very knowledgeable of the subject matter (CM), is well rounded all aspects of ALM and security and is very reasonable and easy to work with.”

SHAWN DOYLE

DevOps Consultant