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.
Just as physical jerk throws our bodies off balance, technological jerk throws our mental models and established workflows into disarray when software changes too abruptly or without proper preparation.
Sure, vibe coding makes you code faster—that’s the obvious selling point. But if you think speed is the whole story, you’re missing out on the juicy stuff.
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.
Finding the Balance
This paper looks at the long-standing trade-offs between speed, cost, and security in software development and operations. Written by a team of seasoned technology executives, this paper introduces a practical framework for understanding and navigating these competing priorities. Drawing parallels to database theory’s CAP Theorem, the authors demonstrate that organizations can typically optimize for at most two of these three dimensions simultaneously, making explicit trade-off decisions essential for strategic success.
The paper moves beyond theoretical concepts to provide actionable guidance through real-world case studies spanning automotive manufacturing, aviation, financial services, and cloud migration. These examples illustrate how different industries and company phases require different priority orderings—from startups prioritizing speed over cost to mature enterprises balancing safety with efficiency. The authors introduce innovative measurement approaches, including “Doomsday Clocks” for predicting system failures and unifying metrics that connect the three dimensions, enabling leaders to make data-driven decisions about where to position their organizations on the faster-cheaper-safer triangle.
Provides a systematic framework for making explicit trade-offs between competing technology priorities.
Introduces concrete measurement approaches including Flow Framework metrics and Doomsday Clocks.
Delivers real-world case studies showing how different contexts require different trade-off strategies.
Offers proven decision-making patterns that enable faster, more effective trade-off decisions.
Adrian Cockcroft is the retired leader of the technology world. He joined Amazon in October 2016 as a VP in AWS Marketing focused on building relationships with customers. He keynoted 20 AWS Summits around the world, presented on technical and management topics at many events, and hired the open source community engagement team. Moving to Amazon Worldwide Sustainability in March 2021, he led sustainability marketing for AWS, invested in the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, helped coordinate the rapid growth in sustainability related headcount across AWS, and helped author, launch and promote the Well Architected Pillar for Sustainability. Currently Cockcroft is advising, speaking at conferences and private events, and doing occasional consulting and analyst work.
Dr. Tapabrata "Topo" Pal is a thought leader, keynote speaker, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption and Digital Transformation. He is a hands-on developer and Open Source contributor. Topo has been leading and contributing to industry initiatives around automated governance in DevOps practices. Topo resides Richmond, Virginia with his wife and two children.
Randy Shoup is a twenty-five-year veteran of Silicon Valley, and has worked as a senior technology leader and executive at companies ranging from small startups, to mid-sized places, to eBay and Google. Randy is currently VP Engineering at WeWork in San Francisco. He is particularly passionate about the nexus of culture, technology, and organization.
Cat Swetel is a technology leader deeply interested in exploring how the digital transformation of society could create the conditions for more generative institutions. In addition to her role as Director of Engineering at Nubank, Cat is pursuing a master’s degree in Science and Technology Policy. In her (close to nonexistent) leisure time, Cat enjoys cooking, hiking, making jokes about Bitcoin, and reading feminist literature.
Dr. Mik Kersten started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he created the first aspect-oriented development environment. He then pioneered the integration of development tools with Agile and DevOps as part of his Computer Science PhD at the University of British Columbia. Founding Tasktop out of that research, Mik has written over one million lines of open-source code that is still in use today, and he has brought seven successful open-source and commercial products to market.Mik’s experiences working with some of the largest digital transformations in the world has led him to identify the critical disconnect between business leaders and technologists. Since that time, Mik has been working on creating new tools and a new framework for connecting software value stream networks and enabling the shift from project to product.Mik lives with his family in Vancouver, Canada, and travels globally, sharing his vision for transforming how software is built.
Buck Butler is a Senior Technology Manager at Southwest Airlines with over nine years of experience in aviation technology and ground operations. He has progressed through various roles at Southwest, from Business Analyst to his current position leading Application Delivery for Ground Operations, where he specializes in operational readiness for major technology implementations and SAFe methodology. He holds an MBA from Texas Tech University and a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Management from Creighton University, bringing a unique blend of business acumen and technical leadership to the airline industry.
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