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...]
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...]
Five Papers to Improve Software Delivery
Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation Metrics for DevOps initiatives Successful software outcomes depend on negotiation of requirements, accurate scoping of work, value judgments, innovations, team collaboration, software architecture, economic tradeoffs and user demand. Success is less dependent on contract quality, Gantt charts, critical path schedules, earned-value measurement, laws of physics, material properties, mature building codes, and … [Read more...]
Three Papers to Boost Audit/Security in DevOps
An Unlikely Union: DevOps and Audit Information Security and Compliance Practices Many organizations are adopting DevOps patterns and practices, and are enjoying the benefits that come from that adoption: More speed. Higher quality. Better value. However, many organizations often get stymied when dealing with information security, compliance, and audit requirements. There seems to be a misconception that DevOps practices won’t work in organizations which are under SOX or PCI regulations. In this … [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...]
Seven Papers on Organizational Change
1) Thinking Environments Evaluating Organizational Models for DevOps to Accelerate Business and Empower Workers While the traditional IT organization is structured into functional silos, DevOps relies on empowered, cross-functional teams. Is it possible to blend the two approaches and work within the traditional structure? Or do you need to restructure your organization to support DevOps? The traditional structure offered a way to continuously improve skills in individual practice areas—software … [Read more...]
Breaking the Change Management Barrier
This post is an excerpt of the Breaking the Change Management Barrier whitepaper by Ron Forrester, Sr., Jayne Groll, Chris Hill, Dr. Steve Mayner, Erica Morrison, Scott Nasello, Scott Prugh, and Rosalind Radcliffe. During an era of rising regulation and linear, waterfall software development, enterprises adopted a rigorous approach to IT’s change-management process in order to regulate releases into production systems and demonstrate auditable Information Technology (IT) controls. (For the … [Read more...]
Zone Management: Four Frameworks for Portfolio Management
In the final installment of our portfolio management series, we'll look at the four zone management framework. Segmenting and Categorizing to Prioritize Investments and Tailor Approach The challenge for well-established, successful companies is to free their company’s future from the pull of their legacy operating models and cultures. Part of this change involves moving from a traditional, hierarchical, vertically structured operating model to a cross-functional, cross-business, horizontally … [Read more...]
Cynefin: Four Frameworks of Portfolio Management
In this edition of our Four Frameworks of Portfolio Management series, we'll look at sense making approaches to portfolio management, specifically how to use the Cynefin framework for this purpose. Sense Making Approaches During an era of disruption and massive change, business leaders should use multiple cognitive models to evaluate their strategic positioning. Leaders need multiple approaches that help them create opportunities to avoid making the wrong decisions. When trying to make portfolio … [Read more...]
Predictive Metrics: Four Frameworks for Portfolio Management
Now that we've looked at historical data, let's turn to predictive metrics for portfolio management. In this edition of our Four Frameworks of Portfolio Management series, we'll take the predictive qualities of The Flow Framework and more to predict next steps. Considering Leading Indicators to Inform Future Results To thrive in times of technological disruption and economic uncertainty, organizations depend on their ability to adapt quickly to a changing market environment by rapidly evolving … [Read more...]
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