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There Are No Rules for DevOps; It Is Iterative
From both sides of the world, we see many rules. Rules can provide demarcation, structure, and safety, but conversely, they can be limiting and restrictive. Rules can therefore be seen as positive as well as negative. We have heard first-hand and read in various places that combining rules with DevOps is not a good thing.…
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Cloud Strategy’s Cultural Dimension: Why DevOps Is Essential for Cloud Success
Optimizing Your Cloud Strategy: The Cultural Dimension – Lessons From the Recent Past and Why DevOps Is Essential for Cloud Success. When we encounter a new and disruptive technology such as the cloud, it is natural to try and build a playbook from scratch on how to succeed with it. However, it would be wasteful…
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Intro: Why Antifragility?
COVID-19 has taught us that agility and resilience are not the only capabilities that organisations needed yesterday; they also need antifragility. Antifragility can be best described as the ability to thrive as a direct result of stressors, shocks, attacks, or failures. The concept was first described by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That…
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How Do You Get the Board to Buy-in Your DevOps Transformation Plans?
Below I detail my key discoveries from the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Enterprise Leadership Forum (ELF) round table discussion on, “How do you get the board to buy-in your DevOps transformation plans?” A typical consulting answer to the question about how to gain board buy-in is, “That depends.” For my session, one panel member…
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DevOps Consulting: A New Global Opportunity
Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology once said, “Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.” This is one of the reasons we both become DASA DevOps Ambassadors, to expand our knowledge about DevOps. After many years in the project and program…
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Digital Transformation and DevOps
Transformation “Transformation” has become a part of our everyday business lexicon, just like other associated words, such as “Strategy.” Over the past decade, the pace of organizational transformations has picked up due to many market driven considerations, such as changing customer demographics and their expectations, technology, startup competitors with their disruptive business models, and other…
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Establishing ‘Non-negotiables’ to Build a Positive Culture at Home and at Work
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion. Brian Chesky When I was young, there were certain rules that were strictly implemented in my home. One of them was for my siblings and I to share everything to foster a strong sense of equality and ‘justice’. If I went to a birthday…
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Leveraging Stories to Drive DevOps Culture
We tell stories to feel at home in the Universe Roger Bingham, British science communicator, writer, and public television producer and host I perfectly recollect the moment I joined my first organization after finishing my MBA, way back in the early nineties. I was casually informed about an employee who fudged his travel expense statement…
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DevOps Delivers, but Requires New Skills – And a Whole New Mindset
DevOps ‘requires multiple teams to work closely with each other, side by side, on a day-to-day basis, to meet the significantly shrunken delivery timelines.’ Just about every organization with a functioning IT department has been attempting to finesse some variation of DevOps into its software delivery flow. When done right, DevOps is powerful stuff, and…
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Thank You DASA Partners and Best Wishes for 2020!
2019 was a successful year for DASA. Thanks to all of you around the world for contributing to our fast-growing DevOps community! Building on the momentum of the previous years, 2019 continued with strong growth and adoption of DASA DevOps in the global marketplace. DASA expanded its footprint into new markets and introduced new certifications…
