By Dr. Peter Fassbinder, Principal expert PLM Process Innovation, Siemens AG One of the biggest hurdles to implementing continuous delivery and DevOps in an industrial environment—dealing with milestones/macroscopic quality gates—can be overcome with a continuous quality assurance approach that applies “green to green” and “shift left” paradigms to software and non-software artifacts. In an industrial environment, software delivery requires much more than just working software. To formally … [Read more...]
Model Life-Cycle Management at Continental Tires
By Dubravko Dolic, Head of Applied Analytics & AI, Continental Tires Since Continental Tires began researching the topic of machine learning and AI several years ago, it has had to manage a lot of challenges to industrialize software products based on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence. While many companies started out by trying out different use cases in many business areas, we had the advantage of setting our focus on the industrialization of use cases from the beginning. By … [Read more...]
Flow Engineering
By Steve Pereira, CEO Visible Value Stream Consulting, and Andrew Davis, Sr. Director of Research & Innovation, Copado Sharon is a VP of Engineering at a Fortune 2000 company that’s struggled with digital transformation attempts over the past ten years. Sharon’s company, Bolt Global, is facing increasing market pressure. Competitive pressure is pushing them to make operational efficiency improvements and to open up new lines of business. They’ve launched a dozen new improvement initiatives. … [Read more...]
Value Stream Management and Organizing Around Value
By Saahil Panikar, Pricipal Project & Team (with contribution from Cindy Van Epps, Principal, and Jeff Shupack, President, Project and Team) There is an ever-increasing push to organize around the value stream to improve the flow of value to customers. The most important aspect of understanding how to do that is first understanding what the actual value is that you create. For many organizations, there is a heavy weight placed on return on investment (ROI), and profit is the driving force … [Read more...]
The DevOps Enterprise Journal: Spring 2022
The goal at IT Revolution, going back to The Phoenix Project, has always been to help technology leaders and their teams function better together, for their own good as well as their customers. In 2014, we launched the first DevOps Enterprise Summit; a conference that now happens annually in the US and Europe (the virtual Europe conference just happened in mid-May). This conference offers an opportunity for technology leaders of large, complex organizations to discuss the fantastic (and … [Read more...]
