DevOps: A Boy Named Sue
Everyone has an opinion about DevOps. Similar to what has happened to cloud, Agile, Lean and Scrum, this unavoidably leads to cult behavior. Strong beliefs, not only on what it really is but also how it should be integrated with current organizational and technological practices,… Read more
Competing in the digital age with lean startup, agile software development, and DevOps
To compete in the digital age, it is becoming increasingly important to move away from an activity based functional teams to multidisciplinary product teams consisting of business ( product owners, designers, UX, business analysts… ) and IT (developers, testers, security, operations …. ) folks. However,… Read more
Getting DevOps right ( It is not just about technology, leadership and management matters)
It is a truism that to realize the benefits of technology has driven change initiative the focus has to be on deliberate leadership and management of the initiative, rather than an exclusive focus on technology and tools. However, that obvious truth gets lost, in the… Read more
Succeeding with DevOps: Google’s DevOps survey findings mapped to DASA’s DevOps competence model
First, the expected good news, “Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Study Competitive advantage through DevOps” – a survey sponsored by Google Cloud, confirmed that DevOps delivers key business results. Survey respondents who adopted the DevOps approach say that it has improved speed to market (… Read more
Eisenbahnscheinbewegung, or fake high-performance transformations
Over the past years, I’ve seen quite some interesting organizational transformations. No matter which labels were being used (agile, Lean, DevOps), all promise for a collaborative culture with high-performing teams and flows of value. In my experience, the major challenge in any of those transformations… Read more