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Business and Technology Evolution with The Flywheel Effect

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This post is a transcript of the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summit presentation by David Anderson and Mark McCann. You can view the full video here. David Anderson: Welcome everyone. Today, we'd like to talk to you about using Wardley Mapping with the value Flywheel for combined business and technology evolution. We believe, despite all the change that's happened, there's still a wave of transformation on the way for many organizations. We believe that the serverless-first approach will help you … [Read more...]

Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (Sneak Peek)

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In the vein of bestselling titles The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited will help organizations radically rethink how they handle audit, compliance, and security for their software systems. By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, this book will catalyze a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that inspires trust and is inherently more secure. Read the sneak peek of this upcoming book in this post. Susan Jones had been … [Read more...]

The Case Against Best Practices

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To the disgruntlement of some people, I have been skeptical of best practices since I was first exposed to the idea. But now more than ever, I fear that teams strive to implement and follow best practices in situations where novel ideas are needed instead. The assumption that published works are the correct approach to take is an interesting topic. I acknowledge the irony of this statement given I have suggested practices and guidance in my book. It’s just that people seem to read things and … [Read more...]

Doing it All is Not a Good Strategy

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Product teams in the midst of change at one of the biggest US insurance companies came up with an experiment they called “Doing it All.” The sarcastic title was intentional, as it magnificently described the nature of a theme that I observe across multiple industries. From finance to insurance to transportation, carving out capacity for you and your teams to implement a new way of working requires herculean efforts. Change takes time. It’s not enough to just give teams approval to do something. … [Read more...]

Gene Kim’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Playlist

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Gene Kim's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Playlist

How Google SRE and Developers Work Together (US 2021) I love this talk because we hear from two leaders at Google on how Dev and SRE work together, both in the ideal and not ideal. They talk about SRE funding models, engagement models, what it looks like when things are going well, and when things are not going well, what they do to try to put things back on track. And you’ll hear hints on what it’s like to run customer-facing properties at Google: (e.g., “you never truly understand a system … [Read more...]

The Five Time Thieves

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If your wallet was stolen, you’d notice. If your security badge to your office was filched, you’d know it when you arrived. And if you opened the fridge to find your lunch missing, you’d make sure your office mates heard about it. So why don’t people notice when they are robbed of something more valuable than their wallet, badge, or lunch—their nonrenewable time? We grumble that there just aren’t enough hours in the day and that someone else sure seems to have a lot of free time. But we regular … [Read more...]

Interview: Gene Kim Speaks with A Radical Enterprise Author Matt K. Parker

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The following is an interview between Gene Kim and Matt K. Parker, author of the newly released book A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations. You can watch the video of the interview here. Gene Kim: Matt, good seeing you. By the way, congratulations on the release of your new book, A Radical Enterprise. Matt K. Parker: Thanks, Gene. It's good to see you too. Kim: Oh my gosh, it's so good seeing you. By the way, I got to tell you how much I enjoyed your … [Read more...]

How to Run a Radically Collaborative Meeting in 3 Easy Steps

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Radically collaborative companies have recently doubled in number and now comprise 8% of corporations around the world, according to the HOW Report. They achieve superior results in their marketplaces, out-competing their hierarchical competitors on practically every financial dimension. They run the gamut from massive appliance manufacturer (Haier) to the fast-growing prosperity-for-all cryptocurrency startup (cLabs). They are built on paradigms of partnership and equality, and they are filled … [Read more...]

Gene Kim’s Audit and Security Playlist

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Gene Kim's Audit and Security Playlist

“How does DevOps ideally interact with information security and compliance?”This is a problem that was extensively explored in The Phoenix Project, and I have learned so much about the amazing ways that solutions can be found. Here are my favorite videos that describe how information security has shifted from being viewed as a burdensome obstacle to people helping everyone across the organization.The Audit Mythbusting Panel (DevOps Enterprise Summit - Las Vegas 2019)If you think that … [Read more...]

Radically Collaborative Practices

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In this adapted excerpt from A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations by Matt K. Parker, we explore some of the practices that successful radically collaborative organizations leverage. A radically collaborative practice is any practice that helps an organization achieve a state of radical collaboration—in which teams are autonomous, relationships are deficiency gratifying (in which people mutually satisfy each other’s higher-level human needs), collective … [Read more...]

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