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The 3 Real Risks Every Project Manager Should Focus On

September 3, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. It turns out that people are pretty terrible at assessing probabilities and risk. In my last book, A Seat at the Table, I cited several examples to make this point—examples that I love because even knowing the right answer I still can’t convince myself it is right. The first example had to do with the TV game show Let’s Make a Deal, in which the contestant is asked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Seat at the Table, Books, DevOps Community, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: a seat at the table, devops, mark schwartz, project management, risk, risk management, software delivery, war and peace and it

Quick Guide to DevOps for the Non-IT Business Leader

August 24, 2020 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

Adapted from War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age by Mark Schwartz. What is DevOps 1) Small Teams of T-Shaped People DevOps is practiced in small teams, say five to nine people. Small teams can communicate among themselves face-to-face, thereby avoiding the overhead of passing around and perfecting documents. Each team is cross-functional, with skills in software development, testing, infrastructure engineering, operations, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: accelerate, agile, agile software design, automation, continuous delivery, cost reduction, devops, devops definition, devops for business, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, eric ries, guide to devops, increased speed, lean, lean manufactoring, lean software design, lean startup, mark schwartz, software delivery, software design, war and peace and it

Shaping Your Multispeed Future: Two Key Exercises from Mirco Hering

July 1, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Adapted from DevOps for the Modern Enterprise by Mirco Hering To support you in adopting a multispeed future, here are two exercises for you to run in your organization. Both of them are highly related: the first is an analysis of your application portfolio and the second is the identification of a minimum viable cluster of application for which a capability uplift will provide real value. Application Portfolio Analysis If you are like most of my clients, you will have hundreds or thousands … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, DevOps for the Modern Enterprise Tagged With: agile, devops, devops for the modern enterprise, exericises, legacy it, mirco hering, software, software delivery

The Three Epiphanies of Mik Kersten

June 29, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Adapted from Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten. My career has been dedicated to understanding and improving how large-scale software is built. I spent nearly two decades working on new programming languages and software development tools, and have had a chance to work with some of the best technologists in the world. But I have come to realize that, due to where we are in the Turning Point, technology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Project to Product Tagged With: devops, IT, Mik Kersten, Project to Product, software, software delivery, value stream

Balanced Flowchart Exercise

April 30, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

By Dominica Degrandis The balanced flowchart exercise is a companion to Chapter 3.1 of Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow. This exercise includes four useful metrics—all on one sheet—to help people see metric trends over time and understand how to become more predictable. TIME: 45–60 minutes PURPOSE: To discover what lead time, throughput, change failure rate (CFR), and probabilistic percentiles are by performing themby hand, and to learn what each can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Making Work Visible Tagged With: balanced flowchart, dominica degrandis, making work visible, software, software delivery

Why the Full Stack Engineer Is Problematic

April 2, 2020 by IT Revolution 1 Comment

Excerpt from the DevOps Enterprise Forum Paper Full Stack Teams, Not Engineers, by Jason Cox, Christian Posta, Cornelia Davis, Dominica Degrandis, Jim Stoneham, and Thomas A. Limoncelli. Can you possibly be good at everything? In the digital era, the sheer quantity of tools, frameworks, programming languages, and methods/models overwhelms the brain. Technologies come and go, and learning a new technology often involves intense effort. Learning a new environment and domain knowledge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Research Tagged With: christian posta, cornelia davis, devops, devops enterprise forum, dominica degrandis, full stack, full stack engineer, full stack team, jason cox, jim stonham, software, software delivery, teams, thomas limoncelli

Guest Post: Project to Product, Software, and Safety: Getting in the Same Plane

December 18, 2018 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Guest Post by Mik Kersten, author of Project to Product Project to Product tells a story of what we can learn about building software by walking down the BMW Group Leipzig plant production line. The other wonder of mass production that makes repeated appearances throughout the book is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has long been an inspiration to me and whose silhouette graces the cover of Project to Product. Not only is it a marvel of engineering and beauty, it is a marvel of supply chain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Project to Product Tagged With: bmw, boeing, business, flow framework, Gene Kim, information technology, IT, Mik Kersten, Project to Product, software delivery, value stream, value stream networks, value streams, wil pannell

Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework

November 20, 2018 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

IT Revolution is excited to announce the release of our latest book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, has written a book that every business, big or small, will need to read if they want to survive the Age of Software. Tech giants, startups, and digital natives are disrupting every market. No one is immune. And just as happened in the Age of Manufacturing, any business that doesn’t rise to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Project to Product Tagged With: agile, book, business, CIO, devops, information technology, IT, Mik Kersten, new, operations, Project to Product, software, software delivery

Q&A With Dominica DeGrandis and Gene Kim

December 18, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

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 reference during the workshops. They wanted to look at the example kanban boards and policies while doing the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Making Work Visible Tagged With: agile, business, continuous delivery, development, devops, enterprise, executive, information technology, IT, kanban, leadership, lean, management, operations, software, software delivery

Day 3 Recap: DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017

November 16, 2017 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

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 and Barclays) and more. Despite the different marketplaces, the common thread amongst all presenters was DevOps has grown beyond its initial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Summit Tagged With: agile, continuous delivery, development, devops, DevOps Enterprise Summit, DOES17, enterprise, executive, information technology, IT, IT Revolution, lean, operations, software, software delivery

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