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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

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

Day 2 Recap: DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017

November 15, 2017 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

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 got the day started off right—several people are now adopting the "JFDI" acronym. Tisson Matthew from Alignment … [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

Day 1 Recap: DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017

November 14, 2017 by DevOps Enterprise Summit 1 Comment

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 Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin. After the midday break, attendees headed to their top breakout sessions in the … [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

Q&A With Mark Schwartz and Gene Kim

October 10, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

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 realized that a) you didn’t have one, and b) when you finally got one? Mark Schwartz: I remember a conversation I had with the CEO of a company where I was CIO. My IT … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Seat at the Table Tagged With: agile, business, CIO, continuous delivery, CXO, development, devops, enterprise, executive, information technology, IT, leadership, lean, management, operations, software, software delivery

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