LLMs and Generative AI in the enterprise.
Inspire, develop, and guide a winning organization.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
Create visible workflows to achieve well-architected software.
Understand and use meaningful data to measure success.
Integrate and automate quality, security, and compliance into daily work.
An on-demand learning experience from the people who brought you The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, Accelerate, and more.
Learn how to enhance collaboration and performance in large-scale organizations through Flow Engineering
Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
Multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts enterprise technology and business leaders.
In the first part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Admiral John Richardson, who served as Chief of Naval Operations for four years.
Exploring the impact of GenAI in our organizations & creating business impact through technology leadership.
DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
The debate over in-office versus remote work misses a fundamental truth: high-performing teams succeed based on how they’re organized, not where they sit.
Leaders can help their organizations move from the danger zone to the winning zone by changing how they wire their organization’s social circuitry.
The values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, and practices of DevOps.
This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance.
Crossing the Bureaucratic Battlefield: A US Department of Defense Acquisition Professional’s Journey
Delivering DUFFER is a compelling narrative that follows US Army Colonel Frank Kafka’s journey through the complex world of defense acquisition as he attempts to deliver a revolutionary new logistics system. Through a series of illuminating dreams, each teaching crucial lessons, the story explores the challenges and solutions in bringing military innovation from concept to reality.
Written by a distinguished team of experts including Andrew Biehn (US Navy), Gene Kim (IT Revolution), and other industry leaders, this paper offers invaluable insights for program managers, defense contractors, and anyone involved in military procurement. The story artfully weaves together technical challenges, bureaucratic hurdles, and human dynamics to create an engaging and instructive tale.
Key themes include: – Building effective relationships with stakeholders across the acquisition ecosystem – Navigating complex funding landscapes and political realities – Integrating end-user feedback throughout development – Managing technical certification and cybersecurity requirements – Testing in realistic operational environments
Inspired by the classic military text “The Defence of Duffer’s Drift,” this modern adaptation provides practical wisdom for today’s defense acquisition professionals. Through Colonel Kafka’s trials and eventual triumph, readers gain a framework for successfully delivering innovative capabilities to America’s warfighters.
This work is essential reading for military program managers, defense contractors and industry partners, acquisition professionals, military officers and civilian leaders, and anyone interested in defense innovation and procurement.
A structured framework that distills complex acquisition challenges into actionable insights through Colonel Kafka's journey of trial and error.
A blueprint to transforming potential adversaries into allies by engaging users, technical experts, and decision-makers early in the development process.
Detailed strategies for navigating the defense acquisition system while maintaining focus on rapid capability delivery and mission success.
Essential wisdom for bridging the "Valley of Death" between promising prototypes and field-ready systems that serve America's warfighters.
Captain Andrew Biehn is the Director of Development and Integration for the Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems, where he focuses on rapidly integrating and delivering new combat system capabilities. A naval officer for thirty years, Andy previously served as the Program Manager for the Aegis Integrated Combat System, the Program Manager for Aegis Fleet Readiness, commanded the destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103), and served in a variety of roles at sea and ashore.
Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., an enterprise security software company, where he served for 13 years. His books have sold over 1 million copies—he is the WSJ bestselling author of Wiring the Winning Organization, The Unicorn Project, and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate. Since 2014, he has been the organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit (now Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit), studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.
Luke has three decades of experience contributing to high-performing engineering organizations. He spent nineteen years at Apple, where he worked in engineering, engineering management, and project management roles, contributing to multiple MacOS releases, product announcements, software supply chain security, and large-scale infrastructure. His work has supported building and securing Apple’s major operating systems and the development of critical tools and features used by thousands of engineers.
Steve Holt has had a long and varied career at Boeing in engineering and management roles. He is a Technical Fellow and Socio-Technical Systems Engineer. His interests are in creating systems of management for successful product development efforts using Systems Engineering, Cynefin, and Theory of Constraints.
Jay Long is an Innovation Officer in the US Special Operations Command's Army Reserve Element and the Founder/COO of Parlay, a fintech company expanding access to capital for underserved small businesses. His military experience includes service in Afghanistan and Korea. He has served as a Nonresident Fellow at the Modern War Institute and advised organizations including the Defense Innovation Board and Naval Postgraduate School on emerging technologies.
Michael Snyder, Rancher Government Solutions, has been supporting the US Army and DOD since enlisting in the Army in 2002. He served nine years in Army technical intelligence analysis, collections, and planning. Upon leaving the military, he began his winding career through the world of consulting, eventually becoming immersed in the world of DevOps and digital transformation. Now he drives growth, and more importantly, mission outcomes. Focusing now on the Army, things have gone full-circle as he is helping to address the issues with the systems that failed time and again during his and other soldiers’ deployments overseas.
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