This post has been adapted from the A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif. Disruption of change is the balance of business process impact and complexity of change. Often organizations will attempt to take on too much change at once versus starting small, learning, and then scaling. Also, the number of individuals impacted is a factor, but not the primary … [Read more...]
From Project to Product to Problem-Solving: Driving Transparency
This post is an excerpt of the From Project to Product to Problem Solving guidance paper by Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, David Silverman, Heather Mickman, Lucas Rettig, Pat Birkeland, Paula Thrasher, Rosalind Radcliffe, and Jeffrey Snover. As businesses become increasingly digital and product driven, companies are pivoting to product-centric operating models. The backbone of such models is a network of teams aligned to a set of value streams and empowered to set their own objectives and paths to … [Read more...]
Pathways to Success: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 3)
This series of posts is adapted from the DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper Winning Together: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business by Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick. Carve Out Capacity for You and Your Team and Get Started What are technology leaders supposed to do when business leaders don’t consider Technology as their partners? While there are many ways to address the issue, one of the best solutions is to measure … [Read more...]
Co-Author Your Future: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 2)
This series of posts is adapted from the DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper Winning Together: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business by Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick. Jointly Frame and Prioritize Your Transformation Opportunities Once you’ve set the stage for partnership, it’s important to maintain the trust that’s been built thus far and to jointly assess what makes sense to transform. Don’t walk into the … [Read more...]
Multi-Cloud vs. Omni-Cloud
This post has been adapted from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper by Satya Addagarla, Anderson Tran, Mik Kersten, Rob Juncker, Betty Junod, and Sasha Rosenbaum. Multi-cloud has become the buzzword du jour in cloud infrastructure as either the result of vendor marketing or a reality that enterprises find themselves in organically. In this section, we will provide guidance for evaluating tolerance for lock-in and maintaining focus on the highest value when using multiple … [Read more...]
Executing Your Journey to the Cloud
This post has been adapted from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper by Satya Addagarla, Anderson Tran, Mik Kersten, Rob Juncker, Betty Junod, and Sasha Rosenbaum. Alright, you've come a long way on your journey to the cloud. You've pitched to the executive board, planned your journey, and become organized. But migrations take a long time. When it's time to execute your move, choose your OKRs correctly and be ready to adapt to change. Choosing OKRs to Report on Execution Status OKRs … [Read more...]
Organizing Your Teams for Success on Your Journey to the Cloud
This post has been adapted from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper by Satya Addagarla, Anderson Tran, Mik Kersten, Rob Juncker, Betty Junod, and Sasha Rosenbaum. Okay, you've pitched to the executive board and completed your planning, now let's organize your journey to the cloud to help ensure success. The famous ABC News radio host Paul Harvey is often credited as saying, “Growth is the process of responding positively to change.” Looking through this lens will help you understand … [Read more...]
Planning Your Journey to the Cloud
This post has been adapted from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper by Satya Addagarla, Anderson Tran, Mik Kersten, Rob Juncker, Betty Junod, and Sasha Rosenbaum. Now that you've completed your executive pitch for moving to the cloud, it's time to plan. Anecdote: Think about a cloud migration project you’ve been involved with—whether it was Code42 or a customer. How can we call out the fact that cloud transformation is a journey? Anything humorous or surprising about having to make … [Read more...]
No Application Left Behind on the Journey to Cloud
This post has been adapted from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper by Satya Addagarla, Anderson Tran, Mik Kersten, Rob Juncker, Betty Junod, and Sasha Rosenbaum. Enterprises have wide technology portfolios that include revenue generating applications built on old guard standard technology stacks (e.g., IBM, Oracle) to dabbling in modern technologies such as those provided by today’s hyperscalers. Enterprises are aware now, more than ever, that they will be hard pressed to remain … [Read more...]
How to Use GitOps: What Every CIO Needs to Know
This post is adapted from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise guidance paper by Chris Hill, Tom Limoncelli, Dr. Gail Murphy, Cornelia Davis, and Dwayne Holmes. In many organizations, engineers spend too much time waiting for infrastructure change requests. Limited resources cause infrastructure-dependent changes to lag behind, increasing development demand. GitOps presents one solution by repurposing your organization’s existing Git pull-request workflows to permit infrastructure-oriented teams to … [Read more...]
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