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Developing the Right Context in Workspaces
Are you in healthy or unhealthy soil? It is human nature to behave differently in different situations. Therefore, developing the right smell or context in the workspace is essential to improve individuals for the success of the business. However, it involves changing the attitude of the people. Changing someone’s attitude is not an easy task.…
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The Three Ts of DevOps
Daniel Pink’s three aspects to drive people are Purpose, Autonomy, and Mastery. The three aspects are essential elements that help individuals to carry out effective team behavior. Mastery, Purpose, and Autonomy are based upon building Trust, promoting Transparency, and stimulating Teamplay. The three elements or the three Ts of DevOps are: Source: DASA DevOps Professional…
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Using the Stakeholder Map to Guarantee Involvement in the Process
One way of analyzing your stakeholders is the Stakeholder Map. Plot your stakeholders on a graph, considering their influence on and their interest in your initiative. A Stakeholder Map is a tool that helps you categorize stakeholders into the following four categories: The position of stakeholders on the map depicts their value to the project.…
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Story Maps and Business Value
The two approaches to developing products or services are incremental and iterative. The following figures depict the difference between the two approaches. In an Agile DevOps environment, both approaches are used to develop a product. You might need to build upon the existing parts or functionality (iterative). There can also be a situation where you…
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Multitasking Impact on Productivity in a DevOps Environment
Multitasking makes each and every task to take a longer time to complete than required. The cause of delay is due to the time lost when switching between multiple tasks, as shown in the following figure. According to Gerald Weinberg (Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking), there is a loss of around 20% of the total…
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Kaizen Event and Value Stream Mapping as Continuous Improvement Tools
Continuous improvement tools can support the Kaizen or radical change mindset. Kaizen EventA Kaizen event is a structured problem-solving approach that contributes to purposeful continuous improvement within any organization. DMAIC is a problem-solving approach to facilitate continuous improvement, as shown in the following figure. The primary tasks of the various steps of the DMAIC cycle are:…
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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…
