Category: Events

  • Engineering Culture: Leveraging Cloud, DevOps, and Data for Business Success

    Engineering Culture: Leveraging Cloud, DevOps, and Data for Business Success

    Organizations must be agile and adaptable to survive. The key to survival is leveraging technology to gain a competitive advantage. Cloud, DevOps, and Data are essential tools that organizations can use to thrive. However, keeping up with new services and understanding their significance for your business can be challenging. This article provides an introduction to…

  • The Importance of Psychological Safety in DevOps Teams

    The Importance of Psychological Safety in DevOps Teams

    Psychological safety is an essential condition for high-performing teams, particularly those solving complex and novel problems such as DevOps teams. In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, software development practices must keep pace. DevOps, a methodology that emphasizes collaboration and automation between development and operations teams, has become an essential approach to software delivery. However, the…

  • DevOps Knowledge Day Findings – ‘Courage’ is the Name of the Game!

    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…

  • SRVISION 2019

    SRVISION 2019

    It’s time for organizations to become more resilient to get ready for the digital age! The annual SRVISION event took place in the Netherlands discussing Flying Datacenters, Pando – the largest single living organism on earth, and Edith from All in the Family looking to put more Ops into DevOps. The line-up for the event…

  • Culture Follows Structure

    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…

  • “Fit for the Future”

    “Fit for the Future”

    Bring on round two! After an intensive preparation between CIO Platform Nederland and DASA, the first thematic session of 2019 was a great success! Rik Farenhorst, CIO at Transavia and chairman of DASA DevOps Enterprise Leadership Forum acted as host. As part of the program, he gave a clear explanation of how far Transavia is…

  • Active Learning Works from the Eyes of a Phoenix Project Facilitator

    Active Learning Works from the Eyes of a Phoenix Project Facilitator

    Digital business models demand different performance metrics and consumers reward those companies able to deliver them. Organizations who can’t meet the demands will likely fail. A key way to improve upon past performance and shift into a new way of working mandates enhanced skills and knowledge development for IT professionals and teams. DevOps aims for…

  • The DevOps Summit Amsterdam Finding the Balance Between Adopting Tools and Taking the Organization Along in a DevOps Journey

    The DevOps Summit Amsterdam Finding the Balance Between Adopting Tools and Taking the Organization Along in a DevOps Journey

    The DevOps Summit Amsterdam was a great success!  Xebia’s Marco Lormans host and moderator of the event along with CEO Consultancy Services Andrew de la Haije who delivered a warm welcome to the participants and opened the summit. There were over 200 participants from across Europe who came together to listen to Thought Leaders, Pioneers,…

  • DevOps Enterprise Summit – Accelerating DevOps Teams

    DevOps Enterprise Summit – Accelerating DevOps Teams

    A week has passed since the DevOps Enterprise Summit took place in Vegas, and the reviews are rolling in. Overall the response is overwhelmingly positive, and it is so exciting to see the industry come together and share experiences and learn from each other. A central theme in all the reviews is the importance of building high…

  • Business-DevOps-Business Value Stream

    Business-DevOps-Business Value Stream

    It’s in the ‘prequel’ and the‘ sequel’ for realizing Business Value DevOps seemed to be the hot topic at itSMF USA – Fusion 18 IT Service Management conference. There was a dedicated DevOps track, a highlight of the Executive Connections programme was DevOps luminary Gene Kim’s exclusive session, sponsored by DASA. DASA was well represented,…