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What if the bottleneck is lack of skilled people?

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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 [......]

DevOps, DevOps Benefits, DevOps training

CxO’s benefit from a DevOps Capabilities Assessment

3 minute read

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 [......]

Agile Best Practice, DevOps, DevOps Best Practice, DevOps Case study

Customer Stories at DevOps Dublin Event 27th Nov 2019

4 minute read

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 [......]

DevOps, DevOps Best Practice, DevOps culture

Waterfall Mindset Limitations

4 minute read

What is Waterfall Mindset? This blog is not long enough to answer the question posed. But here is a current example we are encountering. Building modern systems is difficult. New cloud and hybrid architectures are complex and need experimentation as an approach to evaluate viability. Whats needed is a fail fast mindset but Waterfall is an avoid risk and never [......]

DevOps Best Practice, DevOps culture, Fintech

Fincode 2019

4 minute read

Regular readers will note that we attend this event annually and our 2017 and 2018 editions are well worth a revisit as many of the previous years presentations were from more mature organisations than the 2019 presenters. The event as the name suggest is focussed on technologists in Tier 1 and 2 Financial Services companies in Europe. This event is [......]

DevOps, DevOps Simulation, DevOps training

Gamifying the SDLC

2 minute read

Last year we delivered DevOps simulations in partnership with G2G3. We learnt a lot. I have been working in the SDLC business for 30 years, yet I learnt more about the human interactions involved in building software than any other equivalent period in my career. Gamifying the SDLC is a new concept and we are offering the opportunity to engage [......]

DevOps, DevOps Best Practice, DevOps Case study, DevOps process, Fintech

Why is DevOps Change Management difficult

3 minute read

This blog on Why DevOps Change Management is difficult is based on conferences and meetups the Daysha team attended in the first half of 2018. In previous blogs we have written about change management, and there is little doubt that new ways of working are difficult to implement. What follows are the observations of change managers attempts to deliver DevOps. [......]

DevOps Best Practice, DevOps process, Fintech

Business DevOps in today’s environment.

3 minute read

This blog on Business DevOps is based on conferences and meetups the Daysha team attended in the first half of 2018. In a world where the single biggest impediment to successful transformation is the inability of the business and IT to move in synch, more organisations are progressing on their Business DevOps Journey. More tier 2 companies are pursuing DevOps [......]

DevOps, DevOps tools, Pipeline automation

DevOps can facilitate architecture change

2 minute read

This blog on how DevOps can facilitate architecture change is based on conferences and meetups the Daysha team attended in the first half of 2018. What follows are summary views on new technology trends and our observations of how these are being adopted and used. Driven by the logic of only building enough functionality that adds customer value and the [......]

DevOps culture, DevOps Simulation

Daysha Simulates DevOps

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To register for our free DevOps Simulation in London on the 31st March email us When I first heard ‘immersive learning experience’ I put it in the same category as ‘awesome’. Words best spoken with an American twang and overused to the point of being meaningless. However the words are millennial friendly as indeed is simulation. Today's younger workforce have grown [......]

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