Category: DASA DevOps Coach

  • The Challenges of Driving a DevOps Culture

    The Challenges of Driving a DevOps Culture

    The culture of any organisation is shaped by the worst behaviour the leader is willing to tolerate Gruenter and Whitaker I was talking to an Information Technology (IT) veteran recently, and he was discussing the transition from Traditional methods to Agile and now DevOps, which is being increasingly implemented in IT organisations around the world.…

  • The Story of an Agile Coach Becoming a DevOps Coach

    The Story of an Agile Coach Becoming a DevOps Coach

    In January 2020, I and 8 other experienced DevOps and Agile practitioners from around the World became the first 9 DASA DevOps Coaches. DASA (DevOps Agile Skills Association) is a community driven organisation with the aim to improve skills and knowledge for DevOps teams and transformations. The DASA DevOps Coach certification is their latest development…

  • Leadership Starts With You

    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…

  • Building DASA Competencies and DevOps Leadership Through Business Simulations

    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…