This post has been adapted from the A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif. Disruption of change is the balance of business process impact and complexity of change. Often organizations will attempt to take on too much change at once versus starting small, learning, and then scaling. Also, the number of individuals impacted is a factor, but not the primary … [Read more...]
Dependency: Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants
This post has been adapted from the A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif. Dependency relates to understanding the business differentiation of the outcomes and also the intent for establishing internal capability. The focus will be on understanding how critical the business outcomes are to your strategy and when you have critical needs. Then, you are going … [Read more...]
Accountability: A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants
This post has been adapted from the A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif. This post of the Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants series focuses on accountability, whether you have established clear ownership of the consulting engagement outcome, and whether you have put in place mechanisms for validating that the desired outcome is achieved. Below are … [Read more...]
A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants
This post has been adapted from the A Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif. Every year, thousands of executives seek to reinvent their companies through organizational transformation, and every year thousands of executives are disappointed by the results. According to a McKinsey report, just 26% of leaders say the transformation efforts they are familiar with … [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...]
Pathways to Success: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 3)
This series of posts is adapted from the DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper Winning Together: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business by Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick. Carve Out Capacity for You and Your Team and Get Started What are technology leaders supposed to do when business leaders don’t consider Technology as their partners? While there are many ways to address the issue, one of the best solutions is to measure … [Read more...]
Co-Author Your Future: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 2)
This series of posts is adapted from the DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper Winning Together: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business by Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick. Jointly Frame and Prioritize Your Transformation Opportunities Once you’ve set the stage for partnership, it’s important to maintain the trust that’s been built thus far and to jointly assess what makes sense to transform. Don’t walk into the … [Read more...]
Setting the Stage for Partnership: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 1)
This series of posts is adapted from the DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper Winning Together: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business by Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick. At this point it is largely taken as a given that the ability to develop and leverage technology is a competitive advantage in any industry. Every company is a technology company regardless of their market segment or product category. Digital … [Read more...]
Planning Your Journey to the Cloud
This post has been adapted from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper by Satya Addagarla, Anderson Tran, Mik Kersten, Rob Juncker, Betty Junod, and Sasha Rosenbaum. Now that you've completed your executive pitch for moving to the cloud, it's time to plan. Anecdote: Think about a cloud migration project you’ve been involved with—whether it was Code42 or a customer. How can we call out the fact that cloud transformation is a journey? Anything humorous or surprising about having to make … [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...]
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