In the Where to Start with DevOps series, we have explored a variety of ways to think about your DevOps transformations. We broke down the three key components to consider in choosing a starting place: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With. We covered how value is delivered to the customer and how to improve flow: Understand the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow. We learned about developing the habits and capabilities in people and the workforce as a means of facilitating these … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 3: How to Design With Conway’s Law in Mind
Over the past 2 blogs in this series, we have discussed the necessary steps to start your DevOps transformation. We covered the three key components to consider in choosing a starting place in this post: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With We covered how value is delivered to the customer and how to improve flow in this post: Understand the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow This week, based on the newly updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, we are … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 2: Understanding the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow
In our last post, we highlighted how to identify a value stream to which you can begin to apply DevOps principles and patterns in this post: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With Our next step in our DevOps transformation, based on the newly updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, is to gain a sufficient understanding of how value is delivered to the customer, by evaluating what work is performed, by whom, and what steps we can take to improve flow. In this blog … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 1: Selecting which Value Stream to Start With
Choosing the best value stream for your DevOps transformation deserves careful consideration. Not only does the value stream you choose dictate the difficulty of your transformation, but it also dictates who will be involved in the transformation, how you organize teams, and how you can best enable those teams and the individuals within them. In the first part of our Where to Start with DevOps series, adapted from the fully updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, we'll look … [Read more...]
The Three Ways Revisited: The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition
Wondering if The DevOps Handbook is for you? First edition authors, Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis developed this book for anyone looking to transform their IT organization—especially those who want to make serious changes through the DevOps methodology in order to increase productivity, profitability and win the marketplace. In the newly released second edition, Nicole Forsgren has added new material, research, and statistics that prove DevOps really does work. It is … [Read more...]
DevSecOps Implementation at the US Navy: Not for the Weak of Heart
This case study was provided as a supplement to the second edition of The DevOps Handbook. It was written by Harold C. Young, Product Owner, and Brent Brockman, Senior Software Developer, U.S. Navy. --- The US Navy is in the middle of a massive information technology modernization, to include new hardware suites, software architectures, and continuous integration/continuous delivery software factories. To realize the full potential of the IT supporting Sailors and Marines worldwide, the Navy’s … [Read more...]
From Project to Product to Problem-Solving: Driving Transparency
This post is an excerpt of the From Project to Product to Problem Solving guidance paper by Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, David Silverman, Heather Mickman, Lucas Rettig, Pat Birkeland, Paula Thrasher, Rosalind Radcliffe, and Jeffrey Snover. As businesses become increasingly digital and product driven, companies are pivoting to product-centric operating models. The backbone of such models is a network of teams aligned to a set of value streams and empowered to set their own objectives and paths to … [Read more...]
Pathways to Success: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 3)
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. Carve Out Capacity for You and Your Team and Get Started What are technology leaders supposed to do when business leaders don’t consider Technology as their partners? While there are many ways to address the issue, one of the best solutions is to measure … [Read more...]
Co-Author Your Future: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 2)
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. Jointly Frame and Prioritize Your Transformation Opportunities Once you’ve set the stage for partnership, it’s important to maintain the trust that’s been built thus far and to jointly assess what makes sense to transform. Don’t walk into the … [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...]
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