Author: Arjan Woertman

  • SRVISION 2019

    SRVISION 2019

    It’s time for organizations to become more resilient to get ready for the digital age! The annual SRVISION event took place in the Netherlands discussing Flying Datacenters, Pando – the largest single living organism on earth, and Edith from All in the Family looking to put more Ops into DevOps. The line-up for the event…

  • 10 Lessons Learned by Cios in Creating a Sustainable Cultural Change in a DevOps Transformation

    10 Lessons Learned by Cios in Creating a Sustainable Cultural Change in a DevOps Transformation

    Most organizations with a strong dependence on IT have started experimenting with DevOps today. The path from Waterfall to DevOps typically leads through adopting Agile and Scrum but is not linear or the same for every organization. IT Leaders play an important part in realizing the transformational journey for their organization. As part of this…

  • Unleashing the Power of the Community — Creating Value With DASA Members

    Unleashing the Power of the Community — Creating Value With DASA Members

    Key Outcomes of DASA’s First Development Workshop One of the big ideas behind starting DASA was involving the community as a guiding force for building thought leadership. Every certification body or framework owner has a different model for building best practices, but the one that we like best is one where volunteers drive the creation…

  • Take a Look: Inside the New DASA Ambassador Program

    Take a Look: Inside the New DASA Ambassador Program

    Over the last year the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) has been receiving questions from many forerunners and partners searching for support in their local area, and we have also been hearing that some of you are interested in serving as a representative of DASA in your community. During the DASA Connect Europe 2017 conference,…

  • DASA Connects European Training Leaders

    DASA Connects European Training Leaders

    In September 2017, The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) hosted DASA Connect, a pan-European conference, in Rotterdam. With 35 participants from 15 countries, all major countries in Europe were represented. It was a busy week for DASA, as it organized a similar event in Asia concurrently.

  • How the DASA Idea Is Spreading the World

    How the DASA Idea Is Spreading the World

    A bit over a year after DASA DevOps Fundamentals was launched to the market, I thought it would be a good time to take a step back and build an understanding of how the DASA idea has spread across the world. Seth Godin is a respected author with some great ideas about the spreading of…

  • Board Meeting Drives Momentum

    Board Meeting Drives Momentum

    Last month, on August 16th, the DASA Board came together to discuss the current state of the business and action plan. The DASA CEO, Deborah Burton, led the meeting, and as the chair of the editorial board, I was invited to join this session. As DASA advocates an open and transparent model, I am taking…