DevOps.com has announced the winners of the 2016 DevOps Dozen. IBM won three categories: Most Innovative DevOps Solution (IBM Bluemix Garage Method), DevOps Transformation Executive of the Year (IBM VP Angel Diaz), and Best DevOps.com Article of the Year (by IBMer Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrodeby). What's more, long-time IBM client and early DevOps advocate Nationwide won the category for Successful DevOps Transformation, so kudos to Carmen DeArdo, Steve Farley and the entire team. Congratulations to all the winners!

Most notably, the IBM Bluemix Garage Method was named the year’s “Most Innovative DevOps Solution.” Here’s what writer Alan Shimel had to say about IBM’s DevOps approach:

There is no shortage of innovation in the DevOps space, but what IBM has done with the Bluemix Garage Method is really ingenious. It is not software or hardware, it is not SaaS, it is truly a methodology.

The method takes IBM’s lessons learned during their own DevOps transformation, combined with tools and processes, to form a complete blueprint that allows organizations to “innovate like a startup, while scaling to the enterprise.”

The site also named Angel Diaz, IBM VP, Cloud Technology & Architecture, its “DevOps Transformation Executive of the Year.” Diaz, Shimel writes, “is not afraid to take chances and innovate to keep IBM at the forefront of technology.”

He continues, “This award is well deserved for leading a massive DevOps transformation that has not only made IBM a leader in offering DevOps solutions to market, but also having IBM eat its own DevOps dogfood.”

Finally, IBM software engineer and DevOps evangelist Shelbee Eigenbrode’s article, 5 Things DevOps is NOT, was recognized as the site’s “Article of the Year.” Shimel called Eigenbrod’s article “one of the most widely commented articles of the hundreds of articles we published in 2016.” 

You can learn more about the IBM Bluemix Garage Method here, and check out the full list of DevOps.com award winners here.