It is difficult enough to answer questions like What is DevOps? without encountering the misguided myths put forward to block the path of progress. Left unattended in your organisation myths can spread like a virus, raising doubts and stalling change momentum. Just as DevOps has evolved since the term was first coined in 2011, so too do the myths: gone [......]
Continue readingThis presentation from Team 2022 is here in full on YouTube and what follows are impressions of a subset of the many announcements the Atlassian Leadership team made. The presenters were Scott Farquhar(co-CEO), Anu Bharadwaj COO, Erika Troutman Mc Cadden GM/VP of Product, Work Management for All (Confluence, Trello), Jaff Redfern CPO. These products were announced and are currently in [......]
Continue readingLast month (Jan 22) the DevOps Institute kindly invited me to discuss the topic of silo's and their negative impact on building high quality software. Jason Baum has interesting ideas and questions on this topic, especially as remote working becomes pervasive. We divert into the Metaverse and topics as wide ranging as the Wright Brothers and Coach Bill Belicheck to [......]
Continue readingAll leaders must drive innovation no matter the stage of evolution for the business. Innovation is a proactive approach to change. Some companies are good at reacting to change in their markets especially if there is a threat. But an innovative business actively looks for opportunity and threat and builds inner competitive tensions to constantly improve and grow. “If the [......]
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DevOps injects urgency into the delivery of business value through software. DevOps theory is focussed on optimising processes but what happens you have optimised the hell of out of your processes and the bottleneck is lack of people? Typical answers are; 1. Outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, nearshoring … basically using third parties to supplement or replace inhouse teams. 2. Prioritising by [......]
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When Commercial people start talking to Technology people, very often what happens is that they got lost in TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) that mean SFA to them. To be fair, the same often happens in reverse. In the old days, the Technology person and the Commercial person would get together over a lunch, or maybe even a beer, to translate [......]
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Every new job has a honeymoon period where the odd indiscretion is overlooked. But when the honeymoon is over there is always a nervous moment as the bride and groom ponder their future. Why do you need a Capability Assessment The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) from DevOps Institute is a means by which hard data is collected seamlessly to [......]
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When an organisation wants to initiate change it can be useful to have an analogy that becomes a rallying call. The analogy can also be a means to help people retain their purpose when the going gets tough. And as we face into the COVID recession the going is likely to get tough for a number of organisations who will [......]
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As we now face into a next recession what can we learn from organisations that thrived in previous post recessionary periods? Harvard Business School has researched the strategies and results for 4,700 public companies (PLC) over three recessions, 1980, 1990, and 2001. This research indicated that in the 3 years after a recession 17% of these PLC’s fared worse and [......]
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It is widely accepted that businesses engaging customers in ongoing digital experimentation will outperform their competitors. By exploring customer needs as a series of small experiments successful organisations double down when they find customer value and cut their losses quickly if the experiment is not returning the desired results. Booking.com is running circa 1,000 experiments at any one time and [......]
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Pinpoint blockers to your DevOps momentum
Prioritise initiatives to Continuously Improve
