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How Do You Get the Board to Buy-in Your DevOps Transformation Plans?
Below I detail my key discoveries from the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Enterprise Leadership Forum (ELF) round table discussion on, “How do you get the board to buy-in your DevOps transformation plans?” A typical consulting answer to the question about how to gain board buy-in is, “That depends.” For my session, one panel member…
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Skills to Remain Relevant in 21st Century and Enabling High-Performance Digital Organizations
To stay relevant in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, organizations are looking for ways to decrease their time to market and become more customer-centric. This requires new ways of working like Agile, DevOps, and new 21st century skills. The Agile/DevOps movement began in 2001 and so far has been largely IT-driven. When you look at…
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From Slogans and Buzzwords to Behaviors and Value
The CEO rubs his throbbing temples. Digital disruption is giving him a headache. All this talk about digital transformation and how competitors are stealing business away with their new ‘DevOps’ ways of working – whatever that ‘DevOps’ means. Never mind all of this transformation stuff, he’d be happy if IT could start delivering what we…
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The Phoenix Project Simulation + DASA DevOps Coach Certification = Best in Class DevOps Coaches
The DevOps Coach has become a critical role in driving DevOps success and organizational performance. Why? DevOps is a cultural shift towards a new mindset, behaviors, and ways of working. Making this shift is not easy. It requires safety, time, practice, patience, and feedback. Without effective coaching, it is easy to fall back to old…
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Leadership Starts With You
As follow up to the successful ‘Fit for the Future’ CIO event organized by CIO Platform Netherlands and DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA), a CEG Agile/Scrum event was organized and kindly hosted by Rabobank. One of the goals was to further explore the findings from the CIO event. As part of this follow on event…
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DevOps Knowledge Day Findings – ‘Courage’ is the Name of the Game!
“Courage” seemed to be a common theme at the Conlea ‘DevOps Knowledge Day’ event co-sponsored by the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA). Courage to deal with suspicious boards (doubt, having heard all the ‘best practice’ promises before), courage to deal with managers (fear of the change to span of control and new leadership styles) and…
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DevOps: Creating High Performing DevOps Teams Starts With Product Ownership
Says who? Last year we captured key success factors from hundreds of organizations wanting to create High Performing DevOps Teams. These success factors came from teams who participated in the Phoenix Project simulation as part of their DevOps journey. Some of these organizations were starting up and used the simulation to explore what DevOps is…
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Executive Connections Insights
The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) was a sponsor of the ‘Executive Connections’ sessions held for leaders at itSMF USA – Fusion 18 Conference in St Louis. One of the program activities was a chance to explore DevOps challenges and recommendations with Gene Kim, keynote speaker and author of the Phoenix Project book. These are…
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DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Provides Core Skills Key for DevOps Success!
The eagerly awaited State of DevOps 2018 report is available. In this article, I want to share some of its findings, from people and their cultural perspectives and how these relate back to the DASA Team Competence Model Core Skill areas. I also have added critical findings from earlier State of DevOps reports for those…
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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. 3 Part Blog In March 2018 Microsoft in the Netherlands…
