Category: Team Competence Model

  • 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…

  • DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Provides Core Skills Key for DevOps Success!

    DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Provides Core Skills Key for DevOps Success!

    The eagerly awaited State of DevOps 2018 report is available. In this article, I want to share some of its findings, from people and their cultural perspectives and how these relate back to the DASA Team Competence Model Core Skill areas. I also have added critical findings from earlier State of DevOps reports for those…

  • ‘Translating Competence’ Into ‘Value’

    ‘Translating Competence’ Into ‘Value’

    What did 35 Senior IT leaders from an International Technology group discover after participating in Phoenix Project business simulation? ‘This was eye-opening!’ Said one manager. ‘We need to take away this concept of BizDevOps’ said another after experiencing the importance of DASA ‘Business Value Optimization.’ Shaping Leadership Ambitions Serview and GamingWorks, two DASA Forerunners, facilitated…

  • A Case Study: Increasing Training ROI with DASA

    A Case Study: Increasing Training ROI with DASA

    Developing employee competencies is an important activity faced by all IT Managers. They must make sure the team has the right knowledge, skills, behaviors and attitudes to do their jobs at the level expected, and also to create the right culture to innovate and keep the work attractive enough to retain employees.

  • How the DASA Idea Is Spreading the World

    How the DASA Idea Is Spreading the World

    A bit over a year after DASA DevOps Fundamentals was launched to the market, I thought it would be a good time to take a step back and build an understanding of how the DASA idea has spread across the world. Seth Godin is a respected author with some great ideas about the spreading of…