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Six Papers for DevOps Transformation Leaders

August 17, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Mythbusting DevOps in the Enterprise Addressing Culture and Leadership Aspects during Transforming The DevOps movement has been primarily driven by practitioners, which is why we’ve ended up with such success at the practice level. As success and awareness have risen, we’ve now seen new challenges and questions around the path to success and applicability for larger organizations. Some have done this very well, others are struggling, and others yet have no idea where to start. This paper focuses … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Organizational Change Tagged With: bold moves you can make, devops leadership, devops transformation, digital transformation, expanding pockets of greatness, individual contributors, leadership, mythbusting devops in the enterprise, tactics for leading change, the cornerstone for winning

Getting Started with Dojos for Technology Organizations

May 27, 2021 by IT Revolution 1 Comment

With the new digital economy, many organizations are facing an unparalleled rate of change and having trouble keeping up. Agile/DevOps Dojos can be a uniquely powerful vehicle for accelerating digital transformation in an enterprise. This post will explain what an Agile/DevOps Dojo is, how to maximize the power of it, and how to create your own company Agile/DevOps Dojo. Written by experts in the field, Ross Clanton (formerly of Target and Verizon, and currently of American Airlines), Jaclyn … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Organizational Change, Workplace Culture Tagged With: devops enterprise forum, digital transformation, dojo, software delivery

Kessel Run: The US Air Force’s Digital Journey in 12 Parsecs or Less

April 29, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Kessel Run is an effort of the US Air Force to build software using principles from DevOps, deploying multiple times per day to support the multiple people who depend upon them. At the 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas-Virtual, Adam Furtado explored their amazing transformation. Their story begins in October of 2015 when the US military struck a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, believing it to be an enemy stronghold. Afghan commandos were under fire and the US needed to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Case Studies, DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Digital Transformation Tagged With: adam furtado, devops, DevOps Enterprise Summit, digital transformation, kessel run

Radical Prioritization of Work

January 12, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post is adapted from the Bold Moves You Can Make white paper that appears in the Fall 2020 DevOps Enterprise Journal. Written by Amy Walters, Dominica DeGrandis,  Jon Moore, Jeffrey Shupack, Michael Nygard, Ross Clanton, Ben Grinnell, and Paula Thrasher Many large enterprises are experiencing a crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts. Remaining relevant and alive requires bold moves that accelerate digital, Agile, and DevOps transformation efforts that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Digital Transformation, Research Tagged With: devops enterprise forum, digital transformation, making work visible, work priorities

Understanding Why Organizations Behave the Way They Do: Top Lessons Learned from The Idealcast

December 9, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

In Gene Kim's continued quest to understand why organizations behave the way they do, he embarked on a journey of learning this last year, and he invited us all along with him. The Idealcast's first season saw some of the more influential leaders in tech talking about everything from the MIT beer game to feedback loops and how to structure architecture.  As Season 1 comes to a close, we look back on the top lessons learned over 14 episodes. Digital Disruption and the Five Ideals DevOps and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Organizational Change, The Idealcast Tagged With: age of digital, business leadership, devops, digital age, digital transformation, idealcast, leadership, lessons, transformational leadership

The Turning Point

August 18, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post was adapted from Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten. For the majority of our careers, those of us involved with enterprise IT have been dealing with change at a frenzied pace. Technology platforms, software development methodologies, and the vendor landscape have been shifting at a rate that few organizations have been able to match. Those that manage to keep up, such as Amazon, and Alibaba, are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, Project to Product Tagged With: age of digital, digital age, digital transformation, Mik Kersten, Project to Product, turning point, value strea, value stream networks

Unlock Your Enterprise’s Digital Transformation by Changing Your Relationship with Technologists

July 28, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. Leaders of digital transformations often look around their organizations and see heads nodding. Everyone seems to agree that change is needed to survive in the digital age. Everyone understands that it’s urgent and that there is a risk of being disrupted if the company doesn’t transform quickly enough. Capital markets are demanding growth and innovation, while the board … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, DevOps Community, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: agile, business agility, business and it, CEO, cfo, CIO, cmo, devops, digital transformation, lean, mark schwartz, transformation, war and peace and it

Managing an Evolving Transformation—A Scorecard Approach

July 15, 2020 by Mirco Hering Leave a Comment

Mirco Hering is the author of DevOps for the Modern Enterprise. This blog post was originally published on NotAFactoryAnymore.com. I have been speaking over the last couple of years about the nature of DevOps and Agile transformations. It is in my view not possible to manage them with a simple As-Is To-Be approach as your knowledge of your As-Is situation is usually incomplete and the possible To-Be state keeps evolving. You will need to be flexible in your approach and need to use agile … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps for the Modern Enterprise Tagged With: agile, agility, business agility, devops, devops exercises, devops for the modern enterprise, digital transformation, exercises, mirco hering

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