By David Anderson, with Mark McCann and Micheal O'Reilly After twenty-five years in the technology industry, I can now look back and empathize with all the people I drove crazy—mostly IT managers. Let’s face it, software engineers are usually hired to build things quickly, not fix the sociotechnical issues of the larger organization. And yet that is what I have found myself drawn to time and time again. After all, I have always believed that if you fix the system then everyone can build quicker … [Read more...]
Getting Started with Radical Collaboration
In his book A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations, Matt K. Parker profiles successful companies that have changed their structure from hierarchical to self-managing. Maybe you've read the book or maybe you've heard conversations about it on Twitter or at conferences, and you're left wondering: How do I make this happen in my own organization? In his presentation from DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual - Europe 2022, Matt tackles this exact question, and we're … [Read more...]
Visualizing Team Dependencies with a Team API
Dependencies between teams are a reality in any organization, even when we try to minimize them. If we don’t track team dependencies in the first place, we will run into scheduling and prioritization problems that slow down the flow of delivery. To understand inter-team dependencies, the work being done by each team needs to be visible. Once we are able to track these dependencies, we can then look into promoting healthy dependencies and removing (or minimizing the impact of) slowing or blocking … [Read more...]
What Does an Organization Need in Order to Thrive in a Remote-First World?
A remote-first way of working requires a new mindset from organizations. This excerpt from the Remote Team Interactions Workbook by Team Topologies coauthors Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais explores some of the techniques that can help organizations adopt an effective remote-first approach. Many organizations have found, to their dismay, that rolling out a new chat tool for staff working remotely does not magically make the organization remote-first. A viable remote-first approach needs more … [Read more...]
Topo Pal’s DevOps Metrics & Measurements Playlist
Tapabrata “Topo” Pal is a thought leader, keynote speaker, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption and Digital Transformation. He is also a DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee member, and a coauthor of Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (available September 13, 2022). What to Measure? After more than a decade into the DevOps movement, “what to measure?” … [Read more...]
Dominica DeGrandis’ Essential Data to Enable Systemic Change Playlist
Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop, helps organizations make work visible to improve the flow of work across value streams. Enabling Systemic Change Want to know how well your organization can adapt to change? Look at your data. I’m a firm believer that the data you choose to analyze—and the data you choose to ignore—are crucial indicators of an organization’s capacity for a successful … [Read more...]
Jason Cox’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Playlist
Jason Cox is a Director of Systems Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee member. He is also a coauthor of Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (available September 13, 2022). What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is often considered an expression of DevOps. Like DevOps, SRE seeks to bridge the traditional gap between development and operation … [Read more...]
Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (Sneak Peek)
In the vein of bestselling titles The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited will help organizations radically rethink how they handle audit, compliance, and security for their software systems. By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, this book will catalyze a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that inspires trust and is inherently more secure. Read the sneak peek of this upcoming book in this post. Susan Jones had been … [Read more...]
The Case Against Best Practices
To the disgruntlement of some people, I have been skeptical of best practices since I was first exposed to the idea. But now more than ever, I fear that teams strive to implement and follow best practices in situations where novel ideas are needed instead. The assumption that published works are the correct approach to take is an interesting topic. I acknowledge the irony of this statement given I have suggested practices and guidance in my book. It’s just that people seem to read things and … [Read more...]
Doing it All is Not a Good Strategy
Product teams in the midst of change at one of the biggest US insurance companies came up with an experiment they called “Doing it All.” The sarcastic title was intentional, as it magnificently described the nature of a theme that I observe across multiple industries. From finance to insurance to transportation, carving out capacity for you and your teams to implement a new way of working requires herculean efforts. Change takes time. It’s not enough to just give teams approval to do something. … [Read more...]
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