All 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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Last Friday after work a group of customers and colleagues got together for a zoom beer. This particular group had presented six months ago at an event Daysha ran in Dublin. We discussed new behaviours we would bring into business as usual – when remote working is optional. Each person was asked to prepare 2 ideas … and here are [......]
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In general most of our speakers addressed this topic with war stories all of which illustrated that most organisations need to get out of their own way if they are to be agile. Overcoming individual and collective scepticism about what Agility and DevOps actually are were called out as initial blockers. Misalignment with supporting business functions, such as finance or [......]
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History repeats itself Too often, teams exhausted by the prospect of trying to unravel an earlier generations processes and frustrated by tools that are sucking productivity out of day to day work, engineers will frequently want to just get rid - and start again. New tools, new processes and start all over again; the only difference being the length of [......]
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