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The DevOps Enterprise Journal: Spring 2022

May 17, 2022 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

The goal at IT Revolution, going back to The Phoenix Project, has always been to help technology leaders and their teams function better together, for their own good as well as their customers. In 2014, we launched the first DevOps Enterprise Summit; a conference that now happens annually in the US and Europe (the virtual Europe conference just happened in mid-May). This conference offers an opportunity for technology leaders of large, complex organizations to discuss the fantastic (and … [Read more...]

Learning Effectively From Incidents: The Messy Details

May 10, 2022 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

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...]

Putting the Ops in DevOps – An Infrastructure Story

May 3, 2022 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

In this transcript from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summit, Stephen Farley shows how a large-scale fortune 100 company is infusing DevOps principles into Infrastructure engineering even though DevOps has had a strong presence for many years at Nationwide Insurance. Hear the story of “Putting the Ops in DevOps” after many years of DevOps adoption for our Software Development community. Come on the journey of how infrastructure teams both support Software teams while at the same time need to think … [Read more...]

Visualizing Team Dependencies with a Team API

April 28, 2022 by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais Leave a Comment

Dependencies between teams are a reality in any organization, even when we try to minimize them. If we don’t track team dependencies in the first place, we will run into scheduling and prioritization problems that slow down the flow of delivery. To understand inter-team dependencies, the work being done by each team needs to be visible. Once we are able to track these dependencies, we can then look into promoting healthy dependencies and removing (or minimizing the impact of) slowing or blocking … [Read more...]

What to Expect at DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual – Europe 2022

April 26, 2022 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

Each year, we set out to create the best DevOps Enterprise Summit ever. As I write this, we are more than halfway through recording the plenary sessions, and I’ve been telling everyone today that these are some of the most compelling technology transformation stories yet. As always, this conference is primarily comprised of experience reports from technology leaders helping their organizations win—or in many cases, advance the most important societal goals. The general session is where we … [Read more...]

What Does an Organization Need in Order to Thrive in a Remote-First World?

April 26, 2022 by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais Leave a Comment

A remote-first way of working requires a new mindset from organizations. This excerpt from the Remote Team Interactions Workbook by Team Topologies coauthors Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais explores some of the techniques that can help organizations adopt an effective remote-first approach. Many organizations have found, to their dismay, that rolling out a new chat tool for staff working remotely does not magically make the organization remote-first. A viable remote-first approach needs more … [Read more...]

Topo Pal’s DevOps Metrics & Measurements Playlist

April 20, 2022 by Tapabrata "Topo" Pal Leave a Comment

Tapabrata “Topo” Pal is a thought leader, keynote speaker, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption and Digital Transformation. He is also a DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee member, and a coauthor of Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (available September 13, 2022). What to Measure? After more than a decade into the DevOps movement, “what to measure?” … [Read more...]

Dominica DeGrandis’ Essential Data to Enable Systemic Change Playlist

April 14, 2022 by Dominica DeGrandis 2 Comments

Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop, helps organizations make work visible to improve the flow of work across value streams. Enabling Systemic Change Want to know how well your organization can adapt to change? Look at your data. I’m a firm believer that the data you choose to analyze—and the data you choose to ignore—are crucial indicators of an organization’s capacity for a successful … [Read more...]

Jason Cox’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Playlist

April 7, 2022 by Jason Cox Leave a Comment

Jason Cox is a Director of Systems Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee member. He is also a coauthor of Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (available September 13, 2022). What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is often considered an expression of DevOps. Like DevOps, SRE seeks to bridge the traditional gap between development and operation … [Read more...]

How Google SRE and Developers Work Together

April 5, 2022 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

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...]