In the following excerpt from Episode 19 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim and Steven Spear interviewed Trent Green, SVP and COO of Legacy Health, on how he and his team used iterative problem solving to vaccinate 8,000 people a day at Oregon's largest mass vaccination clinic. Key learnings from this excerpt include the idea that organizations are really a collection of interdependent microsystems, that you can't improve a process until you stabilize a process, and sometimes you have to slow down to … [Read more...]
Technological Maestros: Characteristics of Innovative Leaders
In Episode 17 and Episode 18 of The Idealcast, I was blown away by Dr. Ron Westrum's notion of Technological Maestros, a definition and list of characteristics for a leader that resonates deeply with me. First, let's look at Dr. Westrum's definition of a technological maestro. This is a term that is used in history of technology a lot. First of all, you're dealing with somebody who has very high energy, that's critical. The second thing is they know what questions to ask. The third thing is … [Read more...]
Organizational Culture and Integrated Problem Solving: Excerpt from Ep. 17 of The Idealcast
The culture of an organization is important. It makes a difference in how everything comes out. In this excerpt for Episode 17 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim espouses on Ron Westrum’s question: How do you measure culture? --- I just wanted to break in quickly and give some more information on what Dr. Westrum was just referring to, because believe it or not, this also came up in the workshop that I took at MIT with Dr. Steven Spear in 2014. NASA: Experimental versus Compliance-Driven … [Read more...]
Why DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual – Europe 2021 Will Be Amazing
As always, our goal is to out-program the previous conference, and this year we’ve done it again. See for yourself by checking out what we’ve got planned below, and see you at DevOps Enterprise Summit. Note: Along with this post, it's recommended to open the full conference agenda in order to see talk titles and descriptions. Our Amazing Keynote Talks I’m so excited that we have the most senior leaders speaking at this conference—this shows that the work being done in this community matters, to … [Read more...]
Three Observations on Leading through Writing
AN EXCERPT FROM EPISODE 16 OF THE IDEALCAST WITH GUEST ADMIRAL JOHN RICHARDSON I had mentioned in part one of my interview with Admiral John Richardson, how much I admired the two documents that Admiral Richardson had shared with me. One had the title A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority. And the other was the Navy Leader Development Framework. I loved both documents because they were both so clearly written. And it was such a treat listening to Admiral Richardson and Dr. Steve Spear … [Read more...]
Learning Culture vs. Compliance Culture
An Excerpt from Episode 15 of The Idealcast with Guest Admiral John Richardson Gene Kim: I think we've all witnessed situations where an organization that once exhibited dynamic learning characteristics, well, they start to calcify. When I attended Dr. Steve Spear's workshop at MIT in 2014, I loved the way he cast the US space program in the 1960s as one of fundamental dynamic learning. I recently read Gene Kranz' book, Failure Is Not an Option. And I love the way he described his role in it, a … [Read more...]
Announcing Season 2 of The Idealcast with Gene Kim
I loved Season 1 of the The Idealcast because it was a way to further learn from some of the people I admire most within the DevOps Enterprise community. It has really helped me clarify, in my own mind, why organizations work the way they do—both in the ideal and not ideal—and what the conditions are to really enable greatness Season 2 is going to be incredible because it includes guests from outside the DevOps Enterprise community whose work I truly admire. We’ll hear from Admiral John … [Read more...]
State of DevOps: 2020 and Beyond
What Happened in 2020 Most organizations entered 2020 with a plan, and all those plans were completely upended by a global pandemic and the economic downturn that happened afterward. And yet I think 2020 has been illuminating in showing what technology can do in a time of incredible crisis. I experienced this myself with DevOps Enterprise Summit. In a normal year, we host two in-person conferences in the US and UK. Of course in 2020, an in-person conference where thousands of people fly into a … [Read more...]
8 Recommended Talks from DevOps Enterprise Summit (and Why)
Recently, I was speaking with a friend in a large bank, and I ended up writing him a letter recommending some talks that I thought would be useful. Below I list each of them, along with why I think they'd be of interest. 1) Credit Suisse from London - Virtual 2020 Andrea Hausmann, Head of Program Strategy & Engagement, Credit SuisseDuncan Lawie, Director, DevOps and Development Practices, Credit Suisse I think this is a super interesting talk, because they’re a centralized group that owns … [Read more...]
Why DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas – Virtual Will Be Amazing
Conferences are magical. I owe so much of my career to conferences. Over the past 20 years, I’ve learned so much from the best in the game sharing what they know, spanning the domains of Dev, Ops, Infosec, Audit, and eventually, DevOps! In fact, I met almost all of my collaborators, and all of my coauthors at a conference, because conferences are where you meet kindred spirits and fellow travelers — people who share similar goals, who experience similar frustrations and struggles, who form a … [Read more...]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 7
- Next Page »
