The Hardest Principle
DASA’s entire DevOps curriculum is built around six key principles. Together they cover all the relevant topics you could or should consider when becoming a DevOps professional or when implementing the DevOps way of working within your company. As with all things in life, the… Read more
From Slogans and Buzzwords to Behaviors and Value
The CEO rubs his throbbing temples. Digital disruption is giving him a headache. All this talk about digital transformation and how competitors are stealing business away with their new ‘DevOps’ ways of working – whatever that ‘DevOps’ means. Never mind all of this transformation stuff,… Read more
How DevOps and CI/CD contribute to Antifragility
I started exploring DevOps back in 2013. After my upstream journey from programming via designing and requirements engineering to strategy development, I started my downstream journey to examine how strategy can be implemented more quickly and what obstacles need to be overcome in order to… Read more
A Practical Example of the Application of the DASA DevOps Competence Model
As anyone acquainted with DASA knows, the DevOps Competence Model defines the essential skills and capabilities needed in a DevOps team. In this article, I’d like to show the process I followed to apply it. Before you start looking at the DevOps Competence Model, it’s… Read more
DevOps Coaching: Understanding Its Facets and Assessing Its Impact
As little as one may know about what it means to be a DevOps Coach, there’s one thing that virtually everyone agrees upon. DevOps Coaches help organizations and teams to a higher “performance level” by working more efficiently and effectively. In many organizations, the Scrum… Read more