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The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dr. Steve Spear, Principal, HVE LLC, titled "Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. I'm going to make a case for three key points. Learning is good. Not surprising coming from a guy at MIT wearing a bow tie and glasses. But what I mean more … [Read more...]
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist at AWS, titled "Napoleon, DevOps, and Delivering Business Value." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. I am an enterprise strategist at AWS which means I'm part of a small team of ex-CIOs and CTO’s of large enterprises, whose job it is to talk to our customers (other large enterprises) who are in the midst of a … [Read more...]
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, titled "Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. For my entire career, I've been on this journey to help transform how software is built. I spent the first ten years of that journey, as a developer, writing a ton of code. I thought the … [Read more...]
Guest Post by Mik Kersten, author of Project to Product Project to Product tells a story of what we can learn about building software by walking down the BMW Group Leipzig plant production line. The other wonder of mass production that makes repeated appearances throughout the book is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has long been an inspiration to me and whose silhouette graces the cover of Project to Product. Not only is it a marvel of engineering and beauty, it is a marvel of supply chain … [Read more...]
The following is an excerpt from a presentation originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. You can also watch the video of the presentation. What I’ve been working on recently is the question, 'how do we get business leadership on board?' And here's what I think the problem statement is: "Great CEO's and board directors know how to run great companies. They're fearless about insisting on process excellence — whether it be the sales pipeline forecasts, … [Read more...]
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Naomi Lurie, Director of Product, and Laksh Ranganathan, Senior Solutions Consultant at Tasktop, titled “What Enterprise IT Can Learn From a Startup’s Journey.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. Naomi Lurie A little bit about us We're from Tasktop. We’re not strictly a startup anymore, rather we’re a small company. We were founded in 2007 in … [Read more...]
IT Revolution is excited to announce the release of our latest book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, has written a book that every business, big or small, will need to read if they want to survive the Age of Software. Tech giants, startups, and digital natives are disrupting every market. No one is immune. And just as happened in the Age of Manufacturing, any business that doesn’t rise … [Read more...]
Guest Blog from Mik Kersten We learn through stories—either through our own or through those passed on by others that we admire. When I first read The Phoenix Project, I was amazed at how much technological wisdom could be passed on in story form. That story, perhaps more than any other, motivated people to find a new perspective on the current problems that plague enterprise IT, and to seek a better way. I saw the publication of The Phoenix Project as a flare shot high into the sky, and … [Read more...]
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Fin Goulding, International CIO at Aviva, titled “Flow: Taking Agile Forward.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. I'm Fin Goulding, International CIO at Aviva. Our organization is quite large, we’ve got thousands of customers, thousands of engineers, thousands of systems. We've got a structure whereby we've got CIOs across different regions, and … [Read more...]
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Randy Lyons, NDe EMEA Sr. Director, and Michele Power, CFO Nike Direct EMEA, at Nike titled “My Partner the CFO: At the Table Together to Drive Growth.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. Randy Lyons We're super excited to share... The transformation that our business has been going through The transformations my team has been going … [Read more...]
