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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...]

Announcing The Unicorn Project, Availability of First Excerpt, And The Five Ideals!

September 25, 2019 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

I’m so pleased to announce that The Unicorn Project will be released in all forms (hardcover, ebook, and audio) on November 26, 2019. I’m so excited that over the next couple of months I’ll be posting at least weekly on topics covered in the book or topics that have intrigued and captivated me over the last 2+ years. In this post, I’ll cover the following: What is The Unicorn Project and why should I read it? The Five Ideals Availability of the first excerpt! What is The Unicorn Project and … [Read more...]

Top Enterprise Transformation Lessons Learned

September 25, 2019 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

This was an excerpt from a presentation by Ross Clanton, Executive Director, Technology Modernization, Formerly of Verizon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOWNXlxWBfA Today I’m going to tell stories of failure, a bit like ‘DevOps confessionals.’ I am a transformation executive. I've been doing this for a while now at a bunch of different companies, and I've had a lot of different roles. It's definitely broadened my perspective around what works and what doesn't when you're trying to … [Read more...]

The Unicorn Project Excerpt is now available!

September 23, 2019 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

IT Revolution is excited to announce that, at long last, we’ve just made the first of several excerpts of The Unicorn Project available for download below! We hope you enjoy it! (And we’ll be releasing the next couple of chapters in a week or so.) … [Read more...]

Monoliths vs Microservices is Missing the Point—Start with Team Cognitive Load

September 17, 2019 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

https://youtu.be/haejb5rzKsM The “monoliths vs microservices” debate often focuses on technological aspects, ignoring strategy and team dynamics. Instead of technology, smart-thinking organizations are beginning with team cognitive load as the guiding principle for modern software. In this presentation, Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais explain how and why, illustrated by real case studies. Matthew Skelton My name's Matthew Skelton, and this is Manuel Pais, and together, we are the … [Read more...]

Go Beyond Team Structures for Software Delivery Success

September 12, 2019 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Guest Post from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies Key Takeaways: 1. New team-based organizational designs are proving valuable across the IT industry. 2. Adopting new team structures is only part of the picture: it’s the interactions between teams that really counts. 3. Since 2013 many organizations have used the DevOps topologies patterns to explore different team models. 4. The new book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais addresses important organization dynamics … [Read more...]

What to Expect at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019

June 6, 2019 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year where we’re only a few weeks away from DevOps Enterprise Summit London and I’m incredibly excited for our fourth event there. As a programming committee, our goal is always to create the best programming ever — this creates a challenge, as we all thought the Las Vegas 2018 conference was the best conference yet! The first big change for our London conference this year is that it is now a three-day conference— one day longer than in previous years. I’m particularly … [Read more...]

Q&A with Mark Schwartz and Gene Kim

May 22, 2019 by Ann Leave a Comment

Recently, Gene Kim had a chance to speak with Mark Schwartz about Mark's new book, War and Peace and IT, Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age: Gene Kim: What inspired you to write a book about IT management for business leaders? Mark Schwartz: I meet with executives from over a hundred large enterprises each year. It’s amazing how patterns emerge: so many of them are trying to transform digitally, trying to find new sources of growth and to survive disruption—and … [Read more...]