Earlier this week, I described the first three modules of Beyond The Phoenix Project, along with excerpts from the first three hours — this is from the nine hours that John Willis and I created from the audio series, resulting from hundreds of hours of research into the bodies of knowledge that DevOps draws upon. Today, I wanted to share with you details from the next three modules: Lean, Safety Culture, and Learning Organizations. The first two of these areas, Lean and Safety Culture, are … [Read more...]
A Personal Reinterpretation Of The Three Ways
A note from Gene Kim: Last year, I got an email from Tim Hunter that blew me away. Among many brilliant things, he sent me a rewrite of The Three Ways, which are intended to be a set of principles from which you can derive all the observed DevOps patterns from. When I read what he wrote, my jaw dropped. It was like having a poet rewrite your dissertation thesis. I’ve incorporated his language of Flow, Feedback and Continual Experimentation and Learning into all my talks now, and it will be … [Read more...]
Elements Of The First Way: And The DevOps Implications…
In a previous blog post on “The Three Ways: The Principles Underpinning DevOps”, I wrote the underpinning principles in which all the DevOps patterns can be derived from. They describe the values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, practices, as well as the prescriptive steps. In this post, I’m going to describe some of the elements of the First Way, which will allude to some of the DevOps patterns that result from its application. The First Way emphasizes … [Read more...]
