In the Where to Start with DevOps series, we have explored a variety of ways to think about your DevOps transformations. We broke down the three key components to consider in choosing a starting place: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With. We covered how value is delivered to the customer and how to improve flow: Understand the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow. We learned about developing the habits and capabilities in people and the workforce as a means of facilitating these … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 3: How to Design With Conway’s Law in Mind
Over the past 2 blogs in this series, we have discussed the necessary steps to start your DevOps transformation. We covered the three key components to consider in choosing a starting place in this post: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With We covered how value is delivered to the customer and how to improve flow in this post: Understand the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow This week, based on the newly updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, we are … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 2: Understanding the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow
In our last post, we highlighted how to identify a value stream to which you can begin to apply DevOps principles and patterns in this post: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With Our next step in our DevOps transformation, based on the newly updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, is to gain a sufficient understanding of how value is delivered to the customer, by evaluating what work is performed, by whom, and what steps we can take to improve flow. In this blog … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 1: Selecting which Value Stream to Start With
Choosing the best value stream for your DevOps transformation deserves careful consideration. Not only does the value stream you choose dictate the difficulty of your transformation, but it also dictates who will be involved in the transformation, how you organize teams, and how you can best enable those teams and the individuals within them. In the first part of our Where to Start with DevOps series, adapted from the fully updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, we'll look … [Read more...]
The Three Ways Revisited: The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition
Wondering if The DevOps Handbook is for you? First edition authors, Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis developed this book for anyone looking to transform their IT organization—especially those who want to make serious changes through the DevOps methodology in order to increase productivity, profitability and win the marketplace. In the newly released second edition, Nicole Forsgren has added new material, research, and statistics that prove DevOps really does work. It is … [Read more...]
Common DevOps Myths
Adapted from The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis. Myth—DevOps is Only for Startups While DevOps practices have been pioneered by the web-scale, Internet “unicorn” companies such as Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Etsy, each of these organizations has, at some point in their history, risked going out of business because of the problems associated with more traditional “horse” organizations: highly dangerous code releases that were prone to catastrophic … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 7 & 8 – The Panel & Case Studies
Earlier this week, I wrote about the first six modules of Beyond The Phoenix Project, along with excerpts from each — this is from the nine hours of recorded audio that John Willis and I created, summarizing hundreds of hours of research into the bodies of knowledge that DevOps draws most heavily upon. (By the way, we’ve gotten an update — Beyond The Phoenix Project will be available on Audible and iTunes sometime next week.) Today, I want to tell you about the remaining modules: The Panel … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 4, 5, 6 –Lean, Safety Culture and Learning Organizations
Earlier this week, I described the first three modules of Beyond The Phoenix Project, along with excerpts from the first three hours — this is from the nine hours that John Willis and I created from the audio series, resulting from hundreds of hours of research into the bodies of knowledge that DevOps draws upon. Today, I wanted to share with you details from the next three modules: Lean, Safety Culture, and Learning Organizations. The first two of these areas, Lean and Safety Culture, are … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 1, 2, 3 – Making The Book, Goldratt, & Deming
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, John Willis and I created nine hours of audio for Beyond The Phoenix Project, which is being released later this week. During the hundreds of hours of research and preparation, we explored many of the key pioneering researchers whose bodies of knowledge we draw upon so heavily in the DevOps movement. In the next email, I’ll share some of the highlights from the modules on Lean, safety culture and resilience engineering. But today, our focus is the story of … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project Audio Series & The 5th Anniversary Edition of The Phoenix Project
Last month, in the IT Revolution Newsletter, I described how The Phoenix Project is celebrating its fifth birthday. In commemoration, we are releasing something I’m super excited about, titled Beyond The Phoenix Project. This is nine hours of audio (yes, it grew by two hours since January!) that John Willis and I recorded over the course of the last four months, based on hundreds of hours of research, preparation and rehearsal. For those of you who don’t know, John Willis is one of my … [Read more...]
