The culture conundrum (To succeed with Agile and DevOps transformation, you need to get the culture right)
One of the key success factors in Agile and DevOps transformation is the culture of the teams and the organization. However, since culture is intangible it is difficult to get a sense of whether you are getting culture right or wrong. So, instead of getting Read more
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
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