In this adapted excerpt from the forthcoming book A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations by Matt K. Parker, we explore the four imperatives of radical collaboration. Today, the world of work is haunted by disengagement, mistrust, and meaninglessness. It is plagued with the attendant economic consequences of low productivity, performance, and innovation. The source of this plague is widely known yet rarely addressed, and its image is softened and … [Read more...]
Announcing the Remote Team Interactions Workbook
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and beyond has ushered in a new remote-first world for IT along with most other departments in the business. But many organizations have struggled to catch up with new tooling and ways of working. While some companies have embraced this new reality—ditching their expensive downtown offices and telling staff they can work from home permanently—many more organizations are discovering for the first time that the physical office was covering up poorly defined teams and … [Read more...]
Pathways to Success: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 3)
This series of posts is adapted from the DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper Winning Together: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business by Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick. Carve Out Capacity for You and Your Team and Get Started What are technology leaders supposed to do when business leaders don’t consider Technology as their partners? While there are many ways to address the issue, one of the best solutions is to measure … [Read more...]
Co-Author Your Future: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 2)
This series of posts is adapted from the DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper Winning Together: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business by Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick. Jointly Frame and Prioritize Your Transformation Opportunities Once you’ve set the stage for partnership, it’s important to maintain the trust that’s been built thus far and to jointly assess what makes sense to transform. Don’t walk into the … [Read more...]
Setting the Stage for Partnership: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business (Part 1)
This series of posts is adapted from the DevOps Enterprise Forum guidance paper Winning Together: A Playbook for Aligning Technology & Business by Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick. At this point it is largely taken as a given that the ability to develop and leverage technology is a competitive advantage in any industry. Every company is a technology company regardless of their market segment or product category. Digital … [Read more...]
The New IT Workforce: Harnessing the Power of Community
This post is adapted from A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Accompanying our transition to an Agile IT world, and subtler in its implications, has been the rise of community as a way of practicing IT. This change is due in large part to the rise of open source, but can also be traced to the demographics and inclinations of today’s emerging workforce, as well as to the interdependence of participants in a DevOps model. A successful business can harness this community … [Read more...]
