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
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...]
Seven Papers on Organizational Change
1) Thinking Environments Evaluating Organizational Models for DevOps to Accelerate Business and Empower Workers While the traditional IT organization is structured into functional silos, DevOps relies on empowered, cross-functional teams. Is it possible to blend the two approaches and work within the traditional structure? Or do you need to restructure your organization to support DevOps? The traditional structure offered a way to continuously improve skills in individual practice areas—software … [Read more...]
Announcing New Book from David Anderson
IT Revolution is excited to announced the acquisition of a new book from technology leader David Anderson. Technology is moving faster than ever, and today's business leaders need the ability to experiment and maximize outcomes from their technology investment. An effective engineering function is critical and must fully align with business goals. Well architected systems evolve quickly, perform well and keep maintenance costs down. The book will offer a solution to help businesses align … [Read more...]
Playbook to Bust Bureaucracy
So, you’re in an organization, running up against bureaucratic impediments when you try to do what you’re pretty sure is the right thing. Perhaps you’re leading a digital transformation and your company’s bureaucracy is resisting change, fighting to lock in ways of doing things that belong to the days before the Paleolithic era. You’re up against a vast leviathan of a bureaucracy. What should you do? Like many business and technology authors, I’m going to tell you a bunch of stuff based on my … [Read more...]
How to Fix Bureaucracy
This post is an excerpt from Mark Schwartz's The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy. There are three things we must do to eliminate bureaucracy’s Kafkaesque aspects. We must make it lean by removing waste and shrinking lead times. We must make it capable of learning; that is, changing as the environment changes and as better ways are found to accomplish goals. And we must make it enabling—that is, helpful as a way to get things done rather than a no-saying, gatekeeping, troll-controlled … [Read more...]
Breaking the Change Management Barrier
This post is an excerpt of the Breaking the Change Management Barrier whitepaper by Ron Forrester, Sr., Jayne Groll, Chris Hill, Dr. Steve Mayner, Erica Morrison, Scott Nasello, Scott Prugh, and Rosalind Radcliffe. During an era of rising regulation and linear, waterfall software development, enterprises adopted a rigorous approach to IT’s change-management process in order to regulate releases into production systems and demonstrate auditable Information Technology (IT) controls. (For the … [Read more...]
How to DevOps the Hell Out of Your Covid Crisis
Sir Winston Churchill is credited for saying, never waste a good crisis. And there are few industries that experienced more existential crises due to the global pandemic than the travel and hospitality industries. In this presentation from Pieter Jordaan, Group Chief Technology Officer, Technology Transformation at TUI, shares one of the most remarkable stories of how an organization was able to use a global pandemic as a way to radically transform their organization, and also accelerate their … [Read more...]
OKRs & DevOps: From Micromanagement Misery to Finding Flow
Many organizations are having trouble rolling out OKRs or objectives and key results, especially when top leaders overreach into the planning process using OKRs to bludgeon their favorite project or feature into the plan. Dr. Mik Kersten, Founder and CEO of Tasktop, talked at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit about his seven years of experience using OKRs and what he's seen go right and wrong in large complex organizations. You can watch his full presentation here. I've now had eight years of … [Read more...]
Zone Management: Four Frameworks for Portfolio Management
In the final installment of our portfolio management series, we'll look at the four zone management framework. Segmenting and Categorizing to Prioritize Investments and Tailor Approach The challenge for well-established, successful companies is to free their company’s future from the pull of their legacy operating models and cultures. Part of this change involves moving from a traditional, hierarchical, vertically structured operating model to a cross-functional, cross-business, horizontally … [Read more...]
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