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: David Silverman
In the latest Dispatch from the Scenius, Gene Kim shares David Silverman’s 2020 presentation from DevOps Enterprise Summit London - Virtual. In a continuation of Episode 11, the Team of Teams coauthor and CEO of CrossLead talks about the key concepts from Team of Teams, and provides even more context for many of the topics covered in last week’s episode.
David talks about the genesis of the joint special operations command, which was created after the failure of the daring Iran hostage rescue in 1979, and how it found itself in 2003 in Afghanistan and Iraq, tactically winning but strategically losing, unable to find terrorist leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq. He describes the principles that they drew upon, which will be familiar to almost everyone in the DevOps community, the practices that it led to, the amazing outcomes that resulted, as well as the leadership skills needed in this new world.
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
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.
