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Announcing The First Audio Excerpt of The UnicornProject! (…it’s when I finally stopped worrying, because it’s when I learned that I really love this book!!)

November 6, 2019 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

To my surprise, among the top questions I’ve been asked about The Unicorn Project is, “When will the audiobook be available?” I've been so excited that the audiobook version of The Unicorn Project will be launched at the same time as the hardcover and ebook—and it’s been soooo difficult to not tell everyone about something cool that we were planning, just because there were sooooo many things that could go wrong… But, thanks to the hard work of the amazing IT Revolution publishing team, I can … [Read more...]

Bank on Open Source for DevOps Success

October 24, 2019 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTDx627FRVgOpen source has been one of the core elements in Capital One’s digital transformation journey over the past 6 years. In this presentation, Topo Pal and Jamie Specter, will explain why open source is a necessary part of the journey, the pain points they have experienced along the way, and how their engineers partner with Legal and Security to overcome those challenges.Topo Pal My name is Topo Pal. I'm Senior Director and Senior Distinguished … [Read more...]

Get Answers to Your Auditing Questions at DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas

October 23, 2019 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

As you plan your own agenda and schedule for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas, we want to bring one session in particular to your attention. If you attended our London event in June, you may recall the session, DevOps from an Auditor’s Perspective. It provided such a positive response from attendees that we have decided to take a deeper dive and make it an extended workshop session with a follow-up speaker Q&A in Las Vegas. Representatives from the ‘Big Four’ auditing organizations … [Read more...]

The Fourth Excerpt from The Unicorn Project is Now Available!

October 14, 2019 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

Hello! The fourth excerpt from The Unicorn Project is now available, in which Maxine succumbs to what has plagued the rest of the organization, starts to suspect where a massive investment in speed is needed to achieve the goals and aspirations of the organization, brings the Data Hub technical practices into the current century… ...and meets Maggie, the brilliant and formidable mind who wants to reimagine how Parts Unlimited engages with their customers… Here’s the link where you’ll find … [Read more...]

Love Letter To Clojure (Part 1)

October 11, 2019 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

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...]

DevOps: Enabling Business Transformation in Health Care

October 9, 2019 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5CllYwdOwM&t=31sAs health care evolves to a more “consumer” centric model, software delivery teams in these organizations are finding new and innovative ways to work to support the speed and experimentation expected by their business partners. In this presentation, Alice Raia shares how Kaiser Permanente has built a DevOps practice to meet these needs, and is contributing to a larger transformation internally and externally with their members’ … [Read more...]

The Third Excerpt From The Unicorn Project Is Now Available!

October 7, 2019 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

I’m delighted to announce that we just posted Excerpt #3 of The Unicorn Project here! (You will also find Excerpt #1 and #2 at the same location.) In Excerpt #2, our hero Maxine meets a mysterious group of rebels who are out to overthrow the ancient, powerful order, seeking to enable developers to be productive and recreate engineering greatness within the organization. They, along with everyone else, are soon thrown into the chaos caused by the catastrophic Phoenix release. In its aftermath, as … [Read more...]

DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Programming Highlights: What I’m Looking Forward To

October 4, 2019 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

I am so excited about the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas. As a programming committee, we seek to make each event better than the last, as measured by how much we learn and how it helps enable the DevOps Enterprise community to achieve their goals. As a programming committee, we thought London 2019 was our best conference yet (almost unanimously), which poses a challenge of how we do could possibly do better — but I’ve found over the last several years that this is doable, mostly … [Read more...]

Gene Kim Q&A with the Authors of Team Topologies

October 2, 2019 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

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...]

The Second Excerpt From The Unicorn Project Is Now Available!

September 30, 2019 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

I’m delighted to announce that we just posted Excerpt #2 of The Unicorn Project here! (You will also find Excerpt #1 at the same location.) In Excerpt #1, we met our hero Maxine, a developer and architect with nearly unmatched skills and experience, who is blamed for a payroll outage and is exiled to the Phoenix Project. There, she discovers endless tundras of technical debt and architectural coupling that prevent developers from doing even the most basic things, such as performing builds. She … [Read more...]