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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 … [Read more...]

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

Working From Home During a Pandemic: A Tale of Two Cities

December 7, 2020 by IT Revolution 1 Comment

“We're doing very well. We're barely hanging in there. Some people are loving work from home. Some people are hating work from home. So who's right? Who's wrong? How do we make sense of it? And what's the data tell us, because remember, we aren't just working from home, we're working from home through a pandemic, and at least in the US, a handful of other crises. So while there isn't a perfect examination of life and working from home, we do have some interesting data points. We can look out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Summit, Leadership, Organizational Change, Research, Workplace Culture Tagged With: DevOps Enterprise Summit, nicole forsgren, research, wfh, working from home

24 Key Capabilities to Drive Improvement in Software Delivery

September 1, 2020 by IT Revolution 3 Comments

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

Love Letter to Conferences (And What Makes Some Truly Amazing)

May 19, 2020 by Gene Kim 2 Comments

TL;DR: I share everything I’ve learned about what makes my favorite conference experiences so great and meaningful, and try to understand which elements are universal, applying to both physical and virtual events, and which ones can be changed. I share the experiences of having run an incredible three-day virtual event for 50 people, and share why I’m now incredibly confident that we’ll be able to replicate the magic of the best conferences at the upcoming Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit—our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Summit, Research Tagged With: DevOps Enterprise Summit, Gene Kim, love letter to conferences

Why the Full Stack Engineer Is Problematic

April 2, 2020 by IT Revolution 6 Comments

Excerpt from the DevOps Enterprise Forum Paper Full Stack Teams, Not Engineers, by Jason Cox, Christian Posta, Cornelia Davis, Dominica Degrandis, Jim Stoneham, and Thomas A. Limoncelli. Can you possibly be good at everything? In the digital era, the sheer quantity of tools, frameworks, programming languages, and methods/models overwhelms the brain. Technologies come and go, and learning a new technology often involves intense effort. Learning a new environment and domain knowledge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Research Tagged With: christian posta, cornelia davis, devops, devops enterprise forum, dominica degrandis, full stack, full stack engineer, full stack team, jason cox, jim stonham, software, software delivery, teams, thomas limoncelli

Understanding Job Burnout

February 18, 2019 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

Dr. Christina Maslach

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dr. Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the University of California (Berkeley,) titled "Understanding Job Burnout." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. About 20 years ago, some colleagues and I were called by Sweden. They said, "We're having this crisis in some of our workplaces. Please come over and help us … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Summit, Research Tagged With: burnout, christine maslach, DevOps Enterprise Summit, organizational culture

Featured Resource: Modernizing IT Operation in the Age of DevOps

October 15, 2018 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

Leading up to DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 Las Vegas, we’ll be releasing our newest DevOps resources to our community on a weekly basis. Each of these resources come to you straight from the DevOps Enterprise Forum, where more than 50 technology leaders and thinkers gather for three days to create written guidance on the best-known methods for overcoming the top obstacles in the DevOps Enterprise community. DevOps adoption continues to rise as enterprises migrate to the … [Read more...]

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Featured Resource: Moving from Project to Product

October 8, 2018 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

enterprise models

Leading up to DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 Las Vegas, we’ll be releasing our newest DevOps resources to our community on a weekly basis. Each of these resources come to you straight from the DevOps Enterprise Forum, where more than 50 technology leaders and thinkers gather for three days to create written guidance on the best-known methods for overcoming the top obstacles in the DevOps Enterprise community. Enterprises have invested significantly in modern software delivery … [Read more...]

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Featured Resource: Overcoming Inefficiencies in Multiple Work Management Systems

October 1, 2018 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

overcoming inefficiencies devops resource

Leading up to DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 Las Vegas, we’ll be releasing our newest DevOps resources to our community on a weekly basis. Each of these resources come to you straight from the DevOps Enterprise Forum, where more than 50 technology leaders and thinkers gather for three days to create written guidance on the best-known methods for overcoming the top obstacles in the DevOps Enterprise community. Large enterprises are traditionally organized by functional silos as … [Read more...]

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Featured Resource: Transformational Leadership

September 25, 2018 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

Transformational Leadership DevOps Resource

Leading up to DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 Las Vegas, we’ll be releasing our newest DevOps resources to our community on a weekly basis. Each of these resources come to you straight from the DevOps Enterprise Forum, where more than 50 technology leaders and thinkers gather for three days to create written guidance on the best-known methods for overcoming the top obstacles in the DevOps Enterprise community. At some point in our careers, most of us have likely experienced … [Read more...]

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