By Steve Pereira, CEO Visible Value Stream Consulting, and Andrew Davis, Sr. Director of Research & Innovation, Copado Sharon is a VP of Engineering at a Fortune 2000 company that’s struggled with digital transformation attempts over the past ten years. Sharon’s company, Bolt Global, is facing increasing market pressure. Competitive pressure is pushing them to make operational efficiency improvements and to open up new lines of business. They’ve launched a dozen new improvement initiatives. … [Read more...]
Value Stream Management and Organizing Around Value
By Saahil Panikar, Pricipal Project & Team (with contribution from Cindy Van Epps, Principal, and Jeff Shupack, President, Project and Team) There is an ever-increasing push to organize around the value stream to improve the flow of value to customers. The most important aspect of understanding how to do that is first understanding what the actual value is that you create. For many organizations, there is a heavy weight placed on return on investment (ROI), and profit is the driving force … [Read more...]
Exclusive Excerpt from The Value Flywheel Effect
By David Anderson, with Mark McCann and Micheal O'Reilly After twenty-five years in the technology industry, I can now look back and empathize with all the people I drove crazy—mostly IT managers. Let’s face it, software engineers are usually hired to build things quickly, not fix the sociotechnical issues of the larger organization. And yet that is what I have found myself drawn to time and time again. After all, I have always believed that if you fix the system then everyone can build quicker … [Read more...]
Getting Started with Radical Collaboration
In his book A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations, Matt K. Parker profiles successful companies that have changed their structure from hierarchical to self-managing. Maybe you've read the book or maybe you've heard conversations about it on Twitter or at conferences, and you're left wondering: How do I make this happen in my own organization? In his presentation from DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual - Europe 2022, Matt tackles this exact question, and we're … [Read more...]
Learning Effectively From Incidents: The Messy Details
Much has been written about "organizational learning" and "learning organizations." This continued and growing attention on these topics in the software world is encouraging and warranted! However, creating conditions for people to genuinely and effectively learn from the incidents they experience is difficult to do, never mind sustain over time. The frequency, severity, and even absence of these events do not represent what is learned, who has learned what, or how learning might be taking place … [Read more...]
How Google SRE and Developers Work Together
One of the prominent themes in so many DevOps Enterprise Summits has been Site Reliability Engineering, which I've always been dazzled by. There are so many interesting things about these principles and practices that Google pioneered back in 2003. I think it's one of the most incredible examples of how one can create a self-balancing system that helps product teams get features to market quickly, but in a way that doesn't jeopardize the reliability and correctness of the services they create. … [Read more...]
Business and Technology Evolution with The Flywheel Effect
This post is a transcript of the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summit presentation by David Anderson and Mark McCann. You can view the full video here. David Anderson: Welcome everyone. Today, we'd like to talk to you about using Wardley Mapping with the value Flywheel for combined business and technology evolution. We believe, despite all the change that's happened, there's still a wave of transformation on the way for many organizations. We believe that the serverless-first approach will help you … [Read more...]
Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (Sneak Peek)
In the vein of bestselling titles The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited will help organizations radically rethink how they handle audit, compliance, and security for their software systems. By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, this book will catalyze a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that inspires trust and is inherently more secure. Read the sneak peek of this upcoming book in this post. Susan Jones had been … [Read more...]
The Case Against Best Practices
To the disgruntlement of some people, I have been skeptical of best practices since I was first exposed to the idea. But now more than ever, I fear that teams strive to implement and follow best practices in situations where novel ideas are needed instead. The assumption that published works are the correct approach to take is an interesting topic. I acknowledge the irony of this statement given I have suggested practices and guidance in my book. It’s just that people seem to read things and … [Read more...]
The Five Time Thieves
If your wallet was stolen, you’d notice. If your security badge to your office was filched, you’d know it when you arrived. And if you opened the fridge to find your lunch missing, you’d make sure your office mates heard about it. So why don’t people notice when they are robbed of something more valuable than their wallet, badge, or lunch—their nonrenewable time? We grumble that there just aren’t enough hours in the day and that someone else sure seems to have a lot of free time. But we regular … [Read more...]
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