LLMs and Generative AI in the enterprise.
Inspire, develop, and guide a winning organization.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
Create visible workflows to achieve well-architected software.
Understand and use meaningful data to measure success.
Integrate and automate quality, security, and compliance into daily work.
An on-demand learning experience from the people who brought you The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, Accelerate, and more.
Learn how to enhance collaboration and performance in large-scale organizations through Flow Engineering
Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
Multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts enterprise technology and business leaders.
In the first part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Admiral John Richardson, who served as Chief of Naval Operations for four years.
Exploring the impact of GenAI in our organizations & creating business impact through technology leadership.
DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
Just as physical jerk throws our bodies off balance, technological jerk throws our mental models and established workflows into disarray when software changes too abruptly or without proper preparation.
Sure, vibe coding makes you code faster—that’s the obvious selling point. But if you think speed is the whole story, you’re missing out on the juicy stuff.
The values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, and practices of DevOps.
This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance.
A Practical Guide to the Software Acquisition Pathway
Contributors: Bryon Kroger, Ryan Moore, Sheetal Patel, Captain Brian Phillips, and Lieutenant Colonel Melissa Sayers
This paper exposes how the Department of Defense has inadvertently adopted the tactics from a 1944 CIA sabotage manual—referring decisions to committees, insisting on perfect documentation, and applying rigid regulations—that now undermine modern software delivery. Author Jenn Spykerman demonstrates how these well-intentioned processes have become the greatest obstacle to delivering mission-critical capabilities to warfighters who need them.
This comprehensive guide provides DOD acquisition professionals with a practical roadmap for implementing the Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP), featuring real-world case studies from successful programs like Navy Forge and Kessel Run. The paper systematically addresses four critical transformation areas: developing transformative leadership, shifting from milestone-driven to momentum-driven processes, implementing DevSecOps as infrastructure rather than theater, and providing a concrete 90-day adoption framework. Through detailed analysis and field-tested strategies, it shows how to reverse decades of self-sabotage and deliver software that accelerates mission success rather than bureaucratic compliance.
Replace rigid milestones with continuous user feedback and iterative capability releases.
Build leaders who create psychological safety and operate across vision, systems, and action.
Apply a field-tested 90-day adoption guide with concrete steps and proven strategies.
Prioritize working software in warfighters' hands over documentation completeness.
Jenn Spykerman is a strategic technology leader with over twenty years of experience driving digital transformation across aerospace, defense, and mission-critical systems. Jenn has led cross-functional teams delivering production-scale transformations for major aerospace contractors and Space Force engineering teams. During her seventeen-year tenure at a major defense contractor, Jenn managed complex software integration challenges in aerospace and defense. She directed the integration of human-critical software systems for NASA’s Orion Crew Module Program and led a major software transformation for DoD heritage space ground systems, achieving $100M in cost savings through innovative process optimization. Jenn has a Master of Science in Computer Systems Engineering with an emphasis in Aerospace from the University of Denver.
Aligning to Deliver Value and Mission Effects
Crossing the Bureaucratic Battlefield: A US Department of Defense Acquisition Professional’s Journey
Strategies for Operating at Mission Speed in a Modern Digital Battlespace
Why Many Government Software Factories Are Dying While Others are Thriving
