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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.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
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An on-demand learning experience from the people who brought you The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, Accelerate, and more.
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.
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DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
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Could right fit help talent discover more meaning and satisfaction at work and help companies find lost productivity?
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.
Practical Strategies for Optimizing Flow, Teamwork and Visibility in a Changing Landscape
This paper, published in the Fall 2024 Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal, addresses the challenges faced by technology organizations in a competitive and fast-moving market. The authors present six actionable takeaways inspired by two books: Making Work Visible and Team Topologies. These takeaways aim to help organizations optimize flow, teamwork, and visibility in a changing landscape where businesses are under increased budget pressure and rapid technological changes.
Exposing invisible work and making team APIs visible are crucial for understanding the true scope of work and improving communication between teams.
Reducing WIP and implementing effective work sequencing can significantly improve focus, productivity, and time-to-market.
Identifying and remediating blocking dependencies is essential for improving flow and reducing delays in project delivery.
Understanding trade-offs from conflicting priorities and implementing better prioritization methods can help organizations balance multiple demands and improve overall efficiency.
The paper uses a fictional narrative about Pat, a director of engineering, to illustrate common problems faced by technology leaders. It then provides practical solutions and strategies for exposing invisible work, reducing work-in-progress (WIP), making team APIs visible, recognizing trade-offs from conflicting priorities, remediating blocking dependencies, and creating effective work sequencing. Each solution is accompanied by reflections on the problem and specific actions that leaders can take to implement improvements in their organizations.
Dominica DeGrandis is the foremost expert in Kanban Flow within the IT industry today. Her work has shown working IT teams how effectively improve workflow and optimize throughput to produce the best result throughout the value stream. Her passion involves the use of visual cues and transparency across teams and organizations to reveal mutually critical information. As Director of Training & Coaching at LeanKit, Dominica combines experience, practice and theory to help teams level up their capability. She blogs at ddegrandis.com and tweets at @dominicad.
Chris Gallivan is a principal flow advisor at Planview. Gallivan advises organizations on making work visible and improving the flow of value to customers. Prior to joining Planview, Gallivan had two decades of experience improving flow in the automotive industry at Chrysler. His experience ranges from DevOps dojos to platform engineering, from traditional software to embedded systems. In his life outside of work, Chris is the proud father of a two-pizza team and a lifelong musician.
Experienced technology leader building what I have learned into simulations so others can learn in minutes what it took me years to figure out.
Charles (Chuck) Lafferty, is vice president and software architect at ADP. Lafferty joined ADP in 2010 as a senior application developer. He founded the ADP Developer Community in 2013, which helped foster new relationships and open communication channels at ADP. Lafferty hosts an internal technology podcast listened to by ADP employees around the world. His passions include technology, programming, and leadership. By using DevOps principles, Lafferty has fostered a culture of excellence and continuous improvement in a high-performing software development organization.
Matt Ring is a Sr. Product & Engineering Coach with John Deere’s IT Strategy and Transformation organization. Matt works with leaders, practitioners and teams on helping them elevate their own product, lean-agile and DevOps ways of working, and in cultivating an organizational culture of continuous learning and experimentation.
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