Author: Paul Wilkinson

  • If You Want to Lead in DevOps, You Gotta Have Game

    If You Want to Lead in DevOps, You Gotta Have Game

    As a long-time creator and facilitator of serious gaming for business – simulations, in other words – I have seen first-hand, time after time, how serious gaming provides organizations with an opportunity to shift company culture, and start to create teams where once there were silos. 3 Part Blog The dramatically different leadership needs emerging…

  • DevOps Demands a (Re)new(ed) Kind of Leadership

    DevOps Demands a (Re)new(ed) Kind of Leadership

    In this, part one of a three-part blog, I share my 25 years of IT expertise (and some current research) that indicates new leadership skills — including training on the new IT way of working — necessary to meet the new demands of managing DevOps Teams. And this isn’t just for CIOs. Middle management has…

  • ‘Translating Competence’ Into ‘Value’

    ‘Translating Competence’ Into ‘Value’

    What did 35 Senior IT leaders from an International Technology group discover after participating in Phoenix Project business simulation? ‘This was eye-opening!’ Said one manager. ‘We need to take away this concept of BizDevOps’ said another after experiencing the importance of DASA ‘Business Value Optimization.’ Shaping Leadership Ambitions Serview and GamingWorks, two DASA Forerunners, facilitated…

  • Following Up: “DevOps in Action” Webinar

    Following Up: “DevOps in Action” Webinar

    The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) recently hosted a webinar with Paul Wilkinson, co-Owner of GamingWorks, in which he discussed The Phoenix Project Business Simulation and how it maps to the DASA Competence Framework. We received so many thought-provoking questions during the webinar, that we ended up running out of time. Fortunately, we were able…