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Seven Papers on Organizational Change

August 10, 2021 by IT Revolution 2 Comments

1) Thinking Environments Evaluating Organizational Models for DevOps to Accelerate Business and Empower Workers While the traditional IT organization is structured into functional silos, DevOps relies on empowered, cross-functional teams. Is it possible to blend the two approaches and work within the traditional structure? Or do you need to restructure your organization to support DevOps? The traditional structure offered a way to continuously improve skills in individual practice areas—software … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Leadership, Organizational Change Tagged With: devops enterprise forum, Evolving the Funding Process, Full Stack Teams, Making Matrixed Orgs Successful, Moving from Project to Product, organization design, organizational culture, Project to Product Transformation, Thinking Environments, Value Stream Architecture

How to Fix Bureaucracy

August 3, 2021 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

This post is an excerpt from Mark Schwartz's The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy.  There are three things we must do to eliminate bureaucracy’s Kafkaesque aspects. We must make it lean by removing waste and shrinking lead times. We must make it capable of learning; that is, changing as the environment changes and as better ways are found to accomplish goals. And we must make it enabling—that is, helpful as a way to get things done rather than a no-saying, gatekeeping, troll-controlled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Organizational Change, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy, Workplace Culture Tagged With: bureaucracy, delicate art of bureaucracy, leadership, mark schwartz, organization design

Team Cognitive Load

January 19, 2021 by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais Leave a Comment

When we talk about cognitive load, it’s easy to understand that any one person has a limit on how much information they can hold in their brains at any given moment. The same happens for any one team by simply adding up all the team members’ cognitive capacities. What is Cognitive Load Cognitive load was characterized in 1988 by psychologist John Sweller as “the total amount of mental effort being used in the working memory.” Sweller defines three different kinds of cognitive load: Intrinsic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Organizational Change, Team Topologies Tagged With: cognitive load, manuel pais, matthew skelton, organization design, team org structure, team organization, team topologies

The Problem with Org Charts

May 28, 2020 by IT Revolution 1 Comment

Adapted from Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. Technology workers are in a constant state of action: creating and updating systems at an unbelievable rate, and combining different types of technology to create a compelling user experience. Mobile applications; cloud-based services; web applications; and embedded, wearable, or industrial IoT devices all need to interoperate effectively to achieve the desired business … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Team Topologies Tagged With: agile, devops, lean, manuel pais, matthew skelton, organization design, team org structure, team topologies, teams

Biggest Obstacles to DevOps Success According to DOES17 London Conference Speakers

April 26, 2017 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

DevOps Enterprise Summit

Though DevOps adoption has picked up speed in the last few years, many organizations still have a long way to go. Let’s face it, we wouldn’t be meeting in London in June if DevOps transformations were a piece of cake. The reality is that change takes time. Our talented DevOps Enterprise Summit London speakers have worked on implementing DevOps at some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations and are well aware of the obstacles impeding DevOps success. We asked them what the biggest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Summit Tagged With: culture, organization design, skills

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