Conversations with experts about the important ideas changing how organizations compete and win.
In The Idealcast, multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts technology and business leaders to explore the dangerous, shifting digital landscape. Listeners will hear insights and gain solutions to help their enterprises thrive in an evolving business world.
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New Episode
Guest: Jeffrey Fredrick
In the final episode of the first season of The Idealcast, Gene Kim sits down with Jeffrey Fredrick, coauthor of Agile Conversations, to synthesize and reflect upon some of the major themes from the entire season.
In Gene’s continued quest to understand why organizations behave the way they do, Fredrick helps connect the dots and points to new areas that deserve more study. They discuss the nature of knowledge work, including how software creation requires so much more conversation and joint cognitive work, and the challenges this presents. They also dive into the bodies of knowledge that are required as we push more decision making and value creation to the edges of the organization.
Then, Gene and Fredrick revisit the concept of integration and why it’s so much more important now than 50 years ago. And finally, they discuss why “Are you happy?” and “Are you proud of your work?” are two very powerful questions and what they actually reveal about people and the work they’re performing. And why this is all so important as we try to create organizations that maximize learning for everyone.
Digital Disruption and the Five Ideals, A Conversation with Dr. Mik Kersten and Peter Moore
Dr. Mik Kersten's 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit Talk with Commentary From Gene Kim
Achieving Better Outcomes Through Structure: A Conversation with Elisabeth Hendrickson
Elisabeth Hendrickson's DevOps Enterprise Summit Presentations with Commentary from Gene Kim
The Pursuit of Perfection: Dominant Architectures, Structure, and Dynamics
Dr. Steve Spear's 2019 and 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit Talks on Rapid, Distributed, Dynamic Learning with Commentary from Gene Kim
The Topography of Problems and the Importance of Distributed Problem Solving
Architecture as the Organizing Logic for Components and the Means for Their Construction
Micheal Nygard's 2016 DevOps Enterprise Summit Presentation with Commentary from Gene Kim
The Surprising Implications of Architecting for Generality
The Principals and Practices behind Team of Teams
David Silverman's 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit London - Virtual Presentation with Commentary from Gene Kim
The Principles and Practices
behind Team of Teams (Part 2)
Gene Kim is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, researcher, and multiple award-winning CTO. He has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999 and was the founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He is the author of six books, The Unicorn Project (2019), and co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning Accelerate (2018), The DevOps Handbook (2016), and The Phoenix Project (2013). Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.
In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the “40 Innovative IT People to Watch Under the Age of 40” list, and he was named a Computer Science Outstanding Alumnus by Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.
He lives in Portland, OR, with his wife and family.
