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Optimize Your Time with The Balanced Calendar

January 14, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

What prevents you from getting work done? One of the top answers is too many meetings! Too many interruptions, meetings, and tools overburdens workers and can lead to burn out. In this post, we visit Dominica DeGrandis's advice for creating a balanced calendar to optimize your time. Too Many Meetings A calendar full of meetings leads to little time to complete actual work. We double book, triple book, and even quadruple book our time.  Dominica DeGrandis describes three common types of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Making Work Visible Tagged With: dominica degrandis, making work visible, Time Optimization

8 Recommended Talks from DevOps Enterprise Summit (and Why)

January 12, 2021 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Summit Tagged With: david silverman, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Gene Kim, steven spear

Radical Prioritization of Work

January 12, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post is adapted from the Bold Moves You Can Make white paper that appears in the Fall 2020 DevOps Enterprise Journal. Written by Amy Walters, Dominica DeGrandis,  Jon Moore, Jeffrey Shupack, Michael Nygard, Ross Clanton, Ben Grinnell, and Paula Thrasher Many large enterprises are experiencing a crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts. Remaining relevant and alive requires bold moves that accelerate digital, Agile, and DevOps transformation efforts that may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Research Tagged With: devops enterprise forum, digital transformation, making work visible, work priorities

IT: The Biggest, Baddest Bureaucrats

September 15, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

This post is an excerpt of Mark Schwartz's The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler.  IT Bureaucracy: Not Fooling Anyone Among the biggest, baddest, bullyingest bureaucrats in a large enterprise are the IT folks. Yes, us, the very IT folks who so hate bureaucracy when we find it imposed on us. Your password, we say, must be in a format that guarantees you’ll never remember it, and you must change it every few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, DevOps Community, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy Tagged With: bureaucracy, business, business agility, business and it, delicate art of bureaucracy, devops for business, leadership, mark schwartz

The 3 Real Risks Every Project Manager Should Focus On

September 3, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. It turns out that people are pretty terrible at assessing probabilities and risk. In my last book, A Seat at the Table, I cited several examples to make this point—examples that I love because even knowing the right answer I still can’t convince myself it is right. The first example had to do with the TV game show Let’s Make a Deal, in which the contestant is asked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Seat at the Table, Books, DevOps Community, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: a seat at the table, devops, mark schwartz, project management, risk, risk management, software delivery, war and peace and it

24 Key Capabilities to Drive Improvement in Software Delivery

September 1, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post is adapted from an excerpt of Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. Our research, based on four years of the State of DevOps Report, has uncovered 24 key capabilities that drive improvements in software delivery performance in a statistically significant way. The book Accelerate details these findings. This post provides you with a handy list of these capabilities. We have classified these capabilities into five categories. Within each category, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accelerate, Books, DevOps Community, Research Tagged With: accelerate, accelerate book, agile software, continual learning, continuous delivery, continuous improvement, devops, dora, Gene Kim, jez humble, lean software, nicole forsgren, state of devops report, teams, test automation, trunk-based development, WIP

Commitment: Engagement Is Not Enough

August 19, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post is adapted from episode 125 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel. Introduction Moving on to Chapter 6 of Agile Conversations, it’s time to talk about commitment. Not engagement, which we argue is insufficient to produce effective results, only enthusiasm that is far too often misdirected out of confusion about what important words mean and how to measure progress. We offer specific tools for effective commitments and hear a story … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations, Books, DevOps Community Tagged With: agile, agile converstions, commitment, douglas squirrel, gojko adzic, jeffrey fredrick, keith braithwaite, martin fowler, mutual definitions, walking skeleton

The Turning Point

August 18, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post was adapted from Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten. For the majority of our careers, those of us involved with enterprise IT have been dealing with change at a frenzied pace. Technology platforms, software development methodologies, and the vendor landscape have been shifting at a rate that few organizations have been able to match. Those that manage to keep up, such as Amazon, and Alibaba, are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, Project to Product Tagged With: age of digital, digital age, digital transformation, Mik Kersten, Project to Product, turning point, value strea, value stream networks

Why: Finding the Balance for Joint Design

August 12, 2020 by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick Leave a Comment

This post was adapted from episode 124 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel. As we get to chapter 4 in our tour through Agile Conversations, it’s time to talk about joint design. In this post we focus on a common error that we didn’t cover in depth in the book: how trying to “convince” someone through advocacy fails. Using the Four Rs, we role play an ineffective advocacy-heavy conversation about tech team execution, and then revise it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations, Books, DevOps Community Tagged With: agile, agile conversations, devops, douglas squirrel, jeffrey fredrick, join design, leader, leadership, teams, the why conversation

The Battle of Borodino: Business as a Complex Adaptive System

August 10, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. In War and Peace, Tolstoy writes of the battle of Borodino, in which Napoleon (sort of) defeats Russia and wins the opportunity to watch Moscow burn, though not much more. The day before the battle, he walks the battlefield and gives his commanders orders for the disposition of the troops—orders which are, for the most part, ignored. During the battle, he stands in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: agile, business agility, complex adaptive system, devops, leadership, mark schwartz, war and peace and it

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