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A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High Performing Organizations

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This post is an excerpt from A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High Performing Organizations by Matt K. Parker, coming February 2022. It’s summer 2021. Vaccinations to the COVID-19 virus have already reached a majority of American adults. Summer camps have reopened; schools are preparing for full, in-person enrollment in the fall; and businesses and governments are heralding a “return to normal.” Yet a quick glance at the articles of any major American news outlet paints a … [Read more...]

How to Make Shared Services Suck Less

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This post is an excerpt from the paper Accelerating Shared Services: How to Make Shared Services Suck Less by Charlie Betz, Scott Prugh, Erica Morrison, Scott Nasello, Adam Zimman, Damon Edwards, and Randy Shoup (with contributions from Julia Harrison). When defined and operated well, shared services teams can provide substantial efficiency and leverage to organizations. It is hard to imagine a large organization that does not centralize broadly useful capabilities. They are a legitimate … [Read more...]

VOICE: Applying an Agile Mindset to Organizational Agility

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This post is an excerpt from Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility by Jonathan Smart, with Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie, and Simon Rohrer.  Taking a one-size-fits-all approach does not optimize outcomes for the infinite unique contexts in organized human endeavor. Instead, find your unique VOICE and use it. You Have a Unique VOICE: Use It The alternative to imposing one set of prescriptive practices across an organization without considering the many unique … [Read more...]

The New IT Workforce: Harnessing the Power of Community

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This post is adapted from A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility.  Accompanying our transition to an Agile IT world, and subtler in its implications, has been the rise of community as a way of practicing IT. This change is due in large part to the rise of open source, but can also be traced to the demographics and inclinations of today’s emerging workforce, as well as to the interdependence of participants in a DevOps model. A successful business can harness this community … [Read more...]

ASREDS Learning Loop

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Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. But this instinct to belong is also an instinct to exclude. Besides the positive benefits of these social structures, they all share some undesired antipatterns and bubble effects, including: Silo Mentality: people and teams within the bubble want to protect their information, not share it with others in the same company. Limited Discoverability: learnings, knowledge, and information outside the bubble cannot be reached and discovery is limited … [Read more...]

Announcing The DevOps Handbook Second Edition

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We're delighted to announce that over the last year we've been hard at work updating the iconic The DevOps Handbook! Originally written over the span of five years, authors Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis created the go-to guide for embarking on a DevOps transformation in any industry. Since the original publication in 2016, the book has gone on to sell more than 250,000 copies and be translated into 11 languages. As the five year anniversary approached, we decided it was … [Read more...]

Test-Driven Development for People: The Art of Conversation

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This post is an abridged excerpt from Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture. In his book, Kent Beck says that Test-Driven Development (TDD), the practice of writing a test concurrently with the code it exercises, gives him “a sense of comfort and intimacy.” That is exactly the feeling we want you to have during the Trust Conversation, and the tool to help you achieve it is the Ladder of Inference, another concept from Chris Argyris and colleagues in the book … [Read more...]

Five Papers to Improve Software Delivery

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Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation Metrics for DevOps initiatives Successful software outcomes depend on negotiation of requirements, accurate scoping of work, value judgments, innovations, team collaboration, software architecture, economic tradeoffs and user demand. Success is less dependent on contract quality, Gantt charts, critical path schedules, earned-value measurement, laws of physics, material properties, mature building codes, and … [Read more...]

Three Papers to Boost Audit/Security in DevOps

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An Unlikely Union: DevOps and Audit Information Security and Compliance Practices Many organizations are adopting DevOps patterns and practices, and are enjoying the benefits that come from that adoption: More speed. Higher quality. Better value. However, many organizations often get stymied when dealing with information security, compliance, and audit requirements. There seems to be a misconception that DevOps practices won’t work in organizations which are under SOX or PCI regulations. In this … [Read more...]

Six Papers for DevOps Transformation Leaders

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Mythbusting DevOps in the Enterprise Addressing Culture and Leadership Aspects during Transforming The DevOps movement has been primarily driven by practitioners, which is why we’ve ended up with such success at the practice level. As success and awareness have risen, we’ve now seen new challenges and questions around the path to success and applicability for larger organizations. Some have done this very well, others are struggling, and others yet have no idea where to start. This paper focuses … [Read more...]

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