Introduction In the Idealcast podcast, I am on a quest to understand how and why organizations work in the way they do, both in the ideal and non-ideal. This is in support of work I’ve been doing with my mentor, Dr. Steven Spear from MIT Sloan, targeting a book in 2023. At the end of May 2021, I had recorded my interview with Trent Green, SVP and Chief Operating Officer at Legacy Health, which is one of the four major healthcare systems in Oregon. This was during such an important … [Read more...]
Announcing Immersion Courses: An On-Demand Learning Experience
Since the publication of The Phoenix Project in 2013, IT Revolution has been dedicated to helping improve the lives of technology workers around the world. We've worked to spread the word on best practices in DevOps through the ongoing publication of books and papers. We've invited the top thought-leaders and practitioners from across industries to present their learning at the DevOps Enterprise Summit. We've brought business leaders from inside and outside the tech world to share the leadership … [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...]
Strengthen Your Conversations Skills with Remote Work
BY AGILE CONVERSATIONS AUTHORS DOUGLAS SQUIRREL AND JEFFREY FREDRICK Collaboration is built on skills, and you can build those skills through deliberate practice. This growth mindset view is particularly useful in our world of suddenly enforced remote working. Remote collaboration is more demanding and unfamiliar to a lot of people who are experiencing it for the first time. Responding to these new challenges with a fixed mindset, taking the view that remote working … [Read more...]
DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas Update: New Dates Announced!
IT Revolution places the highest priority on the well-being and safety of our attendees, partners and staff. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce that we have secured later dates for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas, which will provide additional assurance that the event will go on as planned. The new dates are November 9-11, 2020. If you have already registered, your registration will automatically carry forward. However, if you cannot attend during the new dates, we will allow you … [Read more...]
DevOps Enterprise Summit London is going virtual: A Letter from Gene
Hello, Everyone, Okay, at long last, we can finally announce our plans for DevOps Enterprise Summit London! Because of COVID-19, we will be conducting DevOps Enterprise Summit London as a virtual conference, held during the same dates (June 23-25, 2020), in the London timezone, closely matching the schedule of previous conferences. Speaking on behalf of the programming committee, our goal remains to create the best learning event for technology leaders, which includes bringing in the best … [Read more...]
Getting Your DevOps Enterprise Summit Presentation Submission Accepted
In 2017, I wrote this post (Getting Your Presentation Submission Accepted For DevOps Enterprise Summit In 2017) with some tips on getting your DevOps Enterprise Summit presentation proposal accepted. In that video, there is a link to a fantastic one-hour video that I did with fellow programming committee member Damon Edwards (co-founder of Rundeck), and Margo Cronin, whose submission we had accepted in 2016 when she was Head of Technology Architecture at Zurich Insurance (and now at AWS!). In … [Read more...]
Resource Guide To The Unicorn Project (Part 1)
First off, I want to thank everyone so much for all your support, encouragement, teachings, stories, and enthusiasm for The Unicorn Project. I am so delighted that we hit #2 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list for hardcover business books on the week ending November 30, 2019! I hope that having The Unicorn Project show up alongside other business books shows that the technology challenges we face today are genuine business challenges that cannot be delegated away to “those technology … [Read more...]
Love Letter To Clojure (Part 1)
In this blog post, I will explain how learning the Clojure programming language three years ago changed my life. It led to a series of revelations about all the invisible structures that are required to enable developers to be productive. These concepts show up all over The Unicorn Project, but most prominently in the First Ideal of Locality and Simplicity, and how it can lead to the Second Ideal of Focus, Flow, and Joy. Without doubt, Clojure was one of the most difficult things I’ve … [Read more...]
Gene Kim Q&A with the Authors of Team Topologies
Gene: Every company loves an org chart, but why are they really so misleading Matthew and Manuel: Org charts are management-focused constructs, meant to funnel lines of reporting from the bottom to the top—the typical hierarchical pyramid. The fundamental problem is extrapolating this construct and assuming it actually represents the lines of communication in the organization, alignment of business goals and decision making power. This misinterpretation still happens in most … [Read more...]
