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Making Matrixed Organizations Successful with DevOps

By Damon Edwards, Ben Grinnell, Gary Gruver, Suzette Johnson, Kaimar Karu, Terri Potts, Rosalind Radcliffe

Tactics for Transformation in a Less Than Optimal Organization

While many IT organizations are moving away from matrixed organization, many organizations either can’t or won’t change.

The goal of this paper is to provide tactics for mitigating the drawbacks of a matrixed organization.

The paper details the organization attributes, the drawbacks of a matrixed organization with respect to desired DevOps attributes, and tactics your organization can use to mitigate these drawbacks.

  • Publication Date 2017
  • Pages 18

Features

  • Practical Guidance

    This paper provides practical guidance on how to successfully lead a DevOps transformation in a less than ideal situation.

  • Expert Authors

    This paper is written by experienced practitioners who have led their own successful DevOps transformations within large enterprise organizations.

  • DevOps Goals

    This paper also discusses the goals of DevOps org design, including the characteristics needed to be successful.

  • All Roles

    This paper is written for any change agent in an organization, no matter their role or experience.

About the Resource

While many IT organizations are moving away from matrixed organization, many organizations either can’t or won’t change.

The goal of this paper is to provide tactics for mitigating the drawbacks of a matrixed organization.

The paper details the organization attributes, the drawbacks of a matrixed organization with respect to desired DevOps attributes, and tactics your organization can use to mitigate these drawbacks.

Damon Edwards
Ben Grinnell
Gary Gruver
Suzette Johnson
Kaimar Karu
Terri Potts
Rosalind Radcliffe
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Damon Edwards

Damon Edwards

Damon Edwards is Senior Director, Product at PagerDuty. Previously, Damon was a cofounder of Rundeck, the makers of the popular open-source runbook automation platform acquired by PagerDuty in 2020. Prior to Rundeck, Damon was the Managing Partner of DTO Solutions, a DevOps and Operations Improvement Consultancy. Damon has spent the past 23 years working with both the technology and business ends of IT Operations. He is noted for being a leader in porting cutting-edge DevOps techniques to large-scale enterprise organizations. Damon is a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps, SRE, and Operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, co-host of the DevOps Cafe podcast, and a content chair for Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit.

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Ben Grinnell

Ben Grinnell

Evangelist for modern IT practices that help organisations use their technology to learn & act fast, safely and at scale

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Gary Gruver

Gary Gruver

Coauthor of Leading the Transformation

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Suzette Johnson

Suzette Johnson

Dr. Suzette Johnson is an award-winning author who has spent most of her career in the aerospace defense industry working for Northrop Grumman Corporation. Suzette was the enterprise Lean/Agile transformation lead. In this role, she launched the Northrop Grumman Agile Community of Practice and the Lean/Agile Center of Excellence. She has supported over a hundred enterprise, government, and DoD transitions to and the maturation of Lean-Agile principles and engineering development practices. She has also trained and coached over four thousand individuals on Lean/Agile principles and practices and delivered more than one hundred presentations on Lean/Agile at conferences both nationally and abroad. Her current role is as Northrop Grumman Fellow and Technical Fellow Emeritus, where she continues to actively drive the adoption of Lean/Agile principles with leadership at the portfolio levels and within cyber-physical solutions, specifically within the space sector. As a mentor, coach, and leader, she launched the Women in Computing, Johns Hopkins University Chapter; the Women in Leadership Development program; the Northrop Grumman Lean-Agile Center of Excellence; and the NDIA ADAPT (Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams) working group. She received a Doctorate of Management at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focused on investigating the impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and Agile engineering environments. She am also a Certified Agile Enterprise Coach and Scaled Agile Program Consultant/SPCT

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Kaimar Karu

Kaimar Karu

Helping leaders navigate complexity, create digital strategies, and establish sustainable improvement practices. Former Minister of IT & Foreign Trade, Estonia.

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Terri Potts

Terri Potts

Retired

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Rosalind Radcliffe

Rosalind Radcliffe

IBM Fellow, CIO DevSecOps CTO

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