This post is adapted from the book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise by Mirco Hering. Some people react allergically when you call people resources and talk about managing resources. While not exactly allergic, I agree with the underlying sentiment. A resource is something you can manage without much tailoring; you can treat one bag of sand like the next bag of sand when it comes to making dikes. With people, that is never true. We have probably all been planning for projects and … [Read more...]
Managing an Evolving Transformation—A Scorecard Approach
Mirco Hering is the author of DevOps for the Modern Enterprise. This blog post was originally published on NotAFactoryAnymore.com. I have been speaking over the last couple of years about the nature of DevOps and Agile transformations. It is in my view not possible to manage them with a simple As-Is To-Be approach as your knowledge of your As-Is situation is usually incomplete and the possible To-Be state keeps evolving. You will need to be flexible in your approach and need to use agile … [Read more...]
Shaping Your Multispeed Future: Two Key Exercises from Mirco Hering
Adapted from DevOps for the Modern Enterprise by Mirco Hering To support you in adopting a multispeed future, here are two exercises for you to run in your organization. Both of them are highly related: the first is an analysis of your application portfolio and the second is the identification of a minimum viable cluster of application for which a capability uplift will provide real value. Application Portfolio Analysis If you are like most of my clients, you will have hundreds or thousands … [Read more...]
Making IT Visible: Three Easy Exercises from Mirco Hering
Adapted from DevOps for the Modern Enterprise by Mirco Hering. First Steps for Your Organization There are three exercises that I find immensely powerful because they achieve a significant amount of benefit for very little cost: (1) value stream mapping of your IT delivery process, (2) baselining your metrics, and (3) reviewing your IT governance. With very little effort, you can get a much better insight into your IT process and start making improvements. 1) Value Stream Mapping of Your IT … [Read more...]
