DASA competence & reference model : Using the best of Agile and DevOps to become a high performing product team
High performing product teams : Agile + DevOps + Lean product management = Excellence in software development, deployment and operations. As organizations increasingly rely on software to deliver business services, they are realizing that they need to excel at developing, deploying and operating software based… Read more
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 Team Competence Model
As anyone acquainted with DASA knows, the Team 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 Team Competence Model, it’s… Read more