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.
The Age of AI is the Age of Verification & Validation
This paper addresses the critical challenge organizations face as generative AI dramatically accelerates code production. While AI can generate massive amounts of code in minutes, the authors argue that coding has never been the bottleneck in software delivery—the constraint lies in verification and validation steps downstream. They demonstrate how organizations can avoid being overwhelmed by AI-generated code volume by adopting quality engineering principles, treating code as disposable inventory, and implementing fast feedback loops throughout the delivery cycle.
The authors propose a fundamental shift from traditional requirement-based development to a more experimental “prompts, not PRDs” approach, emphasizing small bets, rapid prototyping, and continuous validation. Drawing from lean manufacturing principles and DevOps best practices, the paper provides actionable guidance for transforming the software development life cycle into a streamlined ideate-validate-repeat cycle. Organizations that master these practices will be positioned to harness AI’s full potential, while those that don’t risk being buried under unshippable code inventory and mounting technical debt.
Transform verification bottlenecks into competitive advantages through disciplined practices.
Replace heavy requirements with lightweight bets and rapid prototyping.
Implement automated testing and observability for immediate course correction.
Connect operations data back to ideation for continuous improvement.
Elisabeth Hendrickson is a technology leader with over thirty years of experience in the tech industry, having led geographically distributed teams of engineers, product managers, and designers as VP R&D at a publicly traded company and VP Engineering at a Series B startup. She is the author of Explore It! and There's Always a Duck, and currently works with technology leaders to improve collaboration, decision making, and execution. Her philosophy centers on putting people first, focusing on incremental delivery and learning, and recognizing that there are many right ways to achieve outcomes depending on context, making her methodology-agnostic while emphasizing the importance of tight feedback loops and collaborative partnerships.
Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognized expert in software development and has over twenty-five years’ experience covering both sides of the business/technology divide. An early adopter of XP and Agile practices, Jeffrey has been a conference speaker in the US, Europe, India and Japan. Through his work on the pioneering open-source project CruiseControl, and through his role as co-organiser of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON), he has had a global impact on software development. Jeffrey’s Silicon Valley experience includes roles as Vice President of Product Management, Vice President of Engineering, and Chief Evangelist. He has also worked as an independent consultant on topics including corporate strategy, product management, marketing, and interaction design. Jeffrey is the coauthor of Agile Conversations. He is currently Vice PResident of Engineering at ION Analytics. He also runs the London Organisational Learning Meetup and is a CTO mentor through CTO Craft.
John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years and is a prolific author, including "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" and "The DevOps Handbook." He is researching DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance. Previously he was an Evangelist at Docker Inc., VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell), and VP of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.
Kamran Kazempour manages the Software Delivery & Developer Experience team for the Wallet, Payments and Commerce group at Apple. For over a decade, Kamran has been a leader and advocate for DevOps best practices and Lean principles across his organization. A Canadian from British Columbia, Kamran lives in California with his wife and their two children.
Joseph Enochs is the Managing Director for AI/ML and Emerging Technologies at EVT, known for pioneering accessible and ethical Generative AI. He also curates the "Countdown to AGI" newsletter, offering insights into the journey towards Artificial General Intelligence. With a fervent commitment to democratizing technology, Joseph leads with innovative AI frameworks and educational initiatives that open up AI to wider audiences. His dedication to responsible technology use has made him a trusted leader in the tech community, inspiring safer, user-friendly AI solutions.
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