Recently, Gene Kim had a chance to speak with Mark Schwartz about Mark’s new book, War and Peace and IT, Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age: Gene Kim: What inspired you to write a book about IT management for business leaders? Mark Schwartz: I meet with executives from over a hundred large enterprises each year. It’s amazing […]
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, […]
Q&A With Dominica DeGrandis and Gene Kim
Recently, Gene Kim and Dominica DeGrandis had a chance to discuss Dominica’s new book, Making Work Visible. Gene Kim: What inspired you to write this book? Dominica DeGrandis: When I was a Kanban for DevOps flow consultant, I facilitated a lot of workshops to help organizations design and improve their workflow. Workshop attendees repeatedly requested a handout that they could […]
Day 3 Recap: DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017
That’s a wrap! The third and final day of the DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco was a huge success. Special thanks to all the speakers, sponsors, partners, and attendees for making DevOps Enterprise Summit a reality! We heard amazing stories across a spectrum of industries, including telecom (Verizon) to retail (Nike) to financial services (Nationwide […]
Day 2 Recap: DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017
Whew! What an amazing second day at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco today! It was another jam-packed schedule full of talks covering the themes of: Getting Business Buy-In, Security & Compliance, Ops & Next-Generation Leadership, Architecture, Technology for Technology Leaders and of course, Experience Reports! Topo Pal and Jennifer Brady from Capital One […]
Day 1 Recap: DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017
We kicked off the DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco today and more than 1,400 people packed the Hilton Union Square for a day of immersive DevOps learning. With several plenary talks headlining the morning sessions, we heard incredible experience report updates from CSG International, KeyBank, Columbia Sportswear, Scaled Agile and a “co-opetition” presentation from […]
Q&A With Mark Schwartz and Gene Kim
Recently, Gene Kim and Mark Schwartz had a chance to discuss Mark’s upcoming book, A Seat at the Table. It was an enlightening discussion about inspiration, common misconceptions and the often bumpy journey of a CIO. Gene Kim: Share the story of what inspired you to write A Seat at the Table, as well as the first time you […]
Catch DOES17 Speakers and Gene Kim October 6, LIVE on Continuous Discussions!
Get excited because DevOps Enterprise Summit (#DOES17) is just around the corner! What better way to get pumped for the conference than joining in a pre-show live video chat with some of this year’s most dynamic speakers? Carmen DeArdo (Nationwide Insurance), John Allspaw (formerly with Etsy), John Esser (AdvancedMD), and Scott Nasello (Columbia Sportswear) along […]
Get a sneak peek of “A Seat at the Table” by Mark Schwartz
Mark Schwartz’s A Seat At The Table will be one of the most important books on technology and business leadership of our generation. —Gene Kim, co-author The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook We’d like to offer you an early glimpse of our latest book A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility by Mark Schwartz. A Seat […]
Deming to DevOps (Part 1)
Edward Deming is often referred to as the father of quality and his ideas laid much of the groundwork are for what is today called Six Sigma. If the story ended there it would be terrifically interesting, but actually not as interesting as the complete story. I would argue that Dr Deming’s greatest contribution to […]
