Choosing the best value stream for your DevOps transformation deserves careful consideration. Not only does the value stream you choose dictate the difficulty of your transformation, but it also dictates who will be involved in the transformation, how you organize teams, and how you can best enable those teams and the individuals within them. In the first part of our Where to Start with DevOps series, adapted from the fully updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, we'll look … [Read more...]
The Three Ways Revisited: The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition
Wondering if The DevOps Handbook is for you? First edition authors, Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis developed this book for anyone looking to transform their IT organization—especially those who want to make serious changes through the DevOps methodology in order to increase productivity, profitability and win the marketplace. In the newly released second edition, Nicole Forsgren has added new material, research, and statistics that prove DevOps really does work. It is … [Read more...]
From Project to Product to Problem-Solving: Driving Transparency
This post is an excerpt of the From Project to Product to Problem Solving guidance paper by Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, David Silverman, Heather Mickman, Lucas Rettig, Pat Birkeland, Paula Thrasher, Rosalind Radcliffe, and Jeffrey Snover. As businesses become increasingly digital and product driven, companies are pivoting to product-centric operating models. The backbone of such models is a network of teams aligned to a set of value streams and empowered to set their own objectives and paths to … [Read more...]
2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers
Every year, IT Revolution gathers industry leaders and experts to discuss the challenges they face. Over the course of the three days, they work together to identify and create written guidance for the top problems facing the community. This year, they produced seven guidance papers on subjects ranging from shared services to cloud transformations. The full set of papers can be read for free in the Fall 2021 DevOps Enterprise Journal. 1. Accelerating Shared Services: Or How to Make Shared … [Read more...]
Top Five Attended Presentations from DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual – US 2021
In October 2021, the DevOps and technology/business leadership communities once again came together for three days of experience reports, knowledge sharing, and learning. Here is our round-up of the top five attended presentations, which you can watch now in the IT Revolution Video Library. 1) How a DevOps Mindset is Influencing Target's Culture Target has shared their learnings at DevOps Enterprise Summit since 2015. This year, Luke Rettig, Sr. Director of Product Management, Merch … [Read more...]
How to Make Shared Services Suck Less
This post is an excerpt from the paper Accelerating Shared Services: How to Make Shared Services Suck Less by Charlie Betz, Scott Prugh, Erica Morrison, Scott Nasello, Adam Zimman, Damon Edwards, and Randy Shoup (with contributions from Julia Harrison). When defined and operated well, shared services teams can provide substantial efficiency and leverage to organizations. It is hard to imagine a large organization that does not centralize broadly useful capabilities. They are a legitimate … [Read more...]
VOICE: Applying an Agile Mindset to Organizational Agility
This post is an excerpt from Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility by Jonathan Smart, with Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie, and Simon Rohrer. Taking a one-size-fits-all approach does not optimize outcomes for the infinite unique contexts in organized human endeavor. Instead, find your unique VOICE and use it. You Have a Unique VOICE: Use It The alternative to imposing one set of prescriptive practices across an organization without considering the many unique … [Read more...]
Announcing The DevOps Handbook Second Edition
We're delighted to announce that over the last year we've been hard at work updating the iconic The DevOps Handbook! Originally written over the span of five years, authors Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis created the go-to guide for embarking on a DevOps transformation in any industry. Since the original publication in 2016, the book has gone on to sell more than 250,000 copies and be translated into 11 languages. As the five year anniversary approached, we decided it was … [Read more...]
Test-Driven Development for People: The Art of Conversation
This post is an abridged excerpt from Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture. In his book, Kent Beck says that Test-Driven Development (TDD), the practice of writing a test concurrently with the code it exercises, gives him “a sense of comfort and intimacy.” That is exactly the feeling we want you to have during the Trust Conversation, and the tool to help you achieve it is the Ladder of Inference, another concept from Chris Argyris and colleagues in the book … [Read more...]
Six Papers for DevOps Transformation Leaders
Mythbusting DevOps in the Enterprise Addressing Culture and Leadership Aspects during Transforming The DevOps movement has been primarily driven by practitioners, which is why we’ve ended up with such success at the practice level. As success and awareness have risen, we’ve now seen new challenges and questions around the path to success and applicability for larger organizations. Some have done this very well, others are struggling, and others yet have no idea where to start. This paper focuses … [Read more...]
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