Building DASA Competencies and DevOps Leadership Through Business Simulations
I recently facilitated a Phoenix Project simulation on behalf of Microsoft for the IT leaders of one of its customer organizations; in this blog you can get an idea of how simulations help organizational leadership understand the importance of the DASA DevOps core skill areas.… Read more
If You Want to Lead in DevOps, You Gotta Have Game
As a long-time creator and facilitator of serious gaming for business – simulations, in other words – I have seen first-hand, time after time, how serious gaming provides organizations with an opportunity to shift company culture, and start to create teams where once there were… Read more
Unleashing the Power of the Community — Creating Value With DASA Members
Key Outcomes of DASA’s First Development Workshop One of the big ideas behind starting DASA was involving the community as a guiding force for building thought leadership. Every certification body or framework owner has a different model for building best practices, but the one that… Read more
DevOps Demands a (Re)new(ed) Kind of Leadership
In this, part one of a three-part blog, I share my 25 years of IT expertise (and some current research) that indicates new leadership skills — including training on the new IT way of working — necessary to meet the new demands of managing DevOps… Read more
Getting Things Done – The Power of Sticky Tape and Post-it Notes
Hold your horses! We can’t do everything. You have to choose! The quote is from a one-day DevOps simulation session I recently ran at a Swedish company in the music streaming business. The person expressing the frustration was responsible for managing the team’s workload. Within… Read more