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The Essential Role of a DevOps Product Owner
As organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to drive innovation and stay competitive, the role of a DevOps Product Owner has become ever more important. A DevOps Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value users get from a product or service in a way that aligns with the business goals and values of an…
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How Do DevOps Product Owners Actually Monitor Progress?
The team and the Product Owner have together understood and confirmed the Product Backlog. They have created the Team Backlog for the next iteration. We know that the Team Backlog consists of more than just new features to be developed. Solving incidents, answering user queries, giving advice, and carrying out operational activities are all examples…
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When Do You Need More Teams to Deliver Value?
You might have found yourself asking when are more teams needed to deliver value. In a DevOps environment, we prefer teams to be as autonomous as possible. This is not always possible. In these cases, the Product Owners must coordinate the delivery of value. Teams must tune the delivery of value to one another. If…
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Defining Boundaries to Ensure Team Autonomy in DevOps
The autonomy of teams is a core value in DevOps. A team can fulfill that responsibility and conduct everything necessary only by defining certain boundaries to limit responsibility. Some of the dimensions that you should consider while defining boundaries are: Dimension 1: Determining in what ways services or (parts of) the system are manageable for…
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Why Shared Accountability of Teams is Crucial for High-performing Teams
Joined team responsibility is a primary characteristic of high-performing teams. In a DevOps team, the shared responsibility for Development and Operations is also a defining characteristic. It is easy for the Development team not to be interested in the operation and maintenance of a system when handed over to another team. However, if the Development…
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Culture Follows Structure
On January 17, 2019. Transavia hosted a highly interactive event “Fit for the Future,” enabled by CIO Platform Nederland and the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA). After several valuable lessons from Transavia and ABN AMRO Bank on their Agile and DevOps journeys, I had the privilege to facilitate one of the break-out sessions on Organizational…
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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…
