Thank you for attending DevOps Enterprise Summit Vegas - Virtual! We’re so delighted that you were able to join us for one the best programs we’ve ever produced — the positive feedback has been so fantastic to read, as well as your suggestions! I was so pleased that we were able to improve upon the great London-Virtual attendee experience, showing that many elements that make conferences magical can be replicated in a virtual format — and in some ways, even exceed it. As a reminder: the mission … [Read more...]
A Sense of Urgency: Surviving in the Age of Digital
The world changed on June 26, 2018. It happened quietly. Few people even noticed. But that was the day that, after more than a century, General Electric, the last original member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, was removed from the index. GE was one of just a dozen firms that Charles Dow included in his list in 1896. The company appeared alongside giants such as American Tobacco, American Sugar Refining Company, and Tennessee Coal and Iron, companies that dominated what Carlota Perez, an … [Read more...]
Advice on Helping Transform from Project to Product
Moving from a project-centric to product-centric organization is on a lot of enterprises list. Continuing our series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters, we asked for advice on how to achieve this shift. What is your top advice to help an organization transform from a project to product approach? "First, there needs to be an understanding that project teams cannot compete against product teams. Product teams become business domain experts in how to deliver their … [Read more...]
Announcing The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy
I’m excited to announce the publication of my fourth book, The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler. Despite the whimsical title, it’s about a critical concern of enterprises transitioning to the cloud and trying to thrive in the digital economy. From my meetings with enterprise AWS customers, I know that bureaucracy is often an impediment to digital transformation. It acts to slow down or prevent innovation and adaptation. It … [Read more...]
Advice on Starting and Maintaining a Learning Culture
A series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. How do you create a learning culture? "Learning demands vulnerability. When we authentically learn, we take a risk that we'll learn something about ourselves that changes our self-image. If you want to build a learning culture, you first have to build a culture of care. Care makes learning safe."—Matt K. Parker, author "It might seem silly, but just ask: 'What did we learn last week/sprint/year?" a lot."—Jon Moore, … [Read more...]
Advice on Starting a DevOps Transformation at a Large Enterprise
A series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. How? It's a simple question, really. But just how do you start a DevOps transformation at a large enterprise? Like so many big endeavors, it's the simple act of how and when to take that first step that can be the most daunting. We pulled together advice from top leaders in the industry who have all had to take that first step. Here's what they have to say: How do you start a DevOps transformation? "You first need to … [Read more...]
Why DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas – Virtual Will Be Amazing
Conferences are magical. I owe so much of my career to conferences. Over the past 20 years, I’ve learned so much from the best in the game sharing what they know, spanning the domains of Dev, Ops, Infosec, Audit, and eventually, DevOps! In fact, I met almost all of my collaborators, and all of my coauthors at a conference, because conferences are where you meet kindred spirits and fellow travelers — people who share similar goals, who experience similar frustrations and struggles, who form a … [Read more...]
Making Bureaucracy Lean, Learning and Enabling
This post is a transcript of Mark Schwartz's DevOps Enterprise Summit- London 2020 presentation. Hi everyone. My name is Mark Schwartz. I'm an enterprise strategist with Amazon Web Services. I think I've spoken at every one of these DevOps Enterprise Summits since 2014, so I hope you're not getting tired of me yet. I think some of you might also have read one or more of my books. There's The Art of Business Value, A Seat at the Table, and War and Peace and IT. And the exciting … [Read more...]
Managing People, Not Resources in a DevOps Enterprise
This post is adapted from the book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise by Mirco Hering. Some people react allergically when you call people resources and talk about managing resources. While not exactly allergic, I agree with the underlying sentiment. A resource is something you can manage without much tailoring; you can treat one bag of sand like the next bag of sand when it comes to making dikes. With people, that is never true. We have probably all been planning for projects and … [Read more...]
IT: The Biggest, Baddest Bureaucrats
This post is an excerpt of Mark Schwartz's The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler. IT Bureaucracy: Not Fooling Anyone Among the biggest, baddest, bullyingest bureaucrats in a large enterprise are the IT folks. Yes, us, the very IT folks who so hate bureaucracy when we find it imposed on us. Your password, we say, must be in a format that guarantees you’ll never remember it, and you must change it every few … [Read more...]
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