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How to Use GitOps: What Every CIO Needs to Know

October 26, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post is adapted from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise guidance paper by Chris Hill, Tom Limoncelli, Dr. Gail Murphy, Cornelia Davis, and Dwayne Holmes. In many organizations, engineers spend too much time waiting for infrastructure change requests. Limited resources cause infrastructure-dependent changes to lag behind, increasing development demand. GitOps presents one solution by repurposing your organization’s existing Git pull-request workflows to permit infrastructure-oriented teams to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Software Delivery Tagged With: devops enterprise forum, gitops, software delivery

Five Papers to Improve Software Delivery

August 31, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation Metrics for DevOps initiatives Successful software outcomes depend on negotiation of requirements, accurate scoping of work, value judgments, innovations, team collaboration, software architecture, economic tradeoffs and user demand. Success is less dependent on contract quality, Gantt charts, critical path schedules, earned-value measurement, laws of physics, material properties, mature building codes, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Metrics, Software Delivery Tagged With: agile software design, metrics, software delivery, software quality

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

What is GitOps?

May 25, 2021 by IT Revolution 1 Comment

By Cornelia Davis, Chris Hill, Dwayne Holmes, Tom Limoncelli, and Gail Murphy There isn't really clarity in the industry as to what GitOps is. After two days of discussion and consensus building at the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum, a team of experts came to the following conclusion: GitOps supports the DevOps agenda in a particularly effective manner (where Git is the interface for operational actions). But that's only the very highest level definition. The following post lays out a brief … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Organizational Change, Software Delivery Tagged With: devops enterprise forum, gitops, software delivery

Measure Software Delivery Performance with Four Key Metrics

February 25, 2021 by IT Revolution 1 Comment

This post has been adapted from Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. There are many frameworks and methodologies that aim to improve the way we build software products and services. We wanted to discover what works and what doesn’t in a scientific way, starting with a definition of what “good” means in this context. This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance. MEASURING SOFTWARE DELIVERY … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accelerate, Metrics, Software Delivery Tagged With: accelerate, four key metrics, Gene Kim, jez humble, nicole forsgren, performance, software delivery

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

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