Dasa Logo

Category: Uncategorized

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    The Phoenix Project Simulation + DASA DevOps Coach Certification = Best in Class DevOps Coaches

    The DevOps Coach has become a critical role in driving DevOps success and organizational performance. Why? DevOps is a cultural shift towards a new mindset, behaviors, and ways of working. Making this shift is not easy. It requires safety, time, practice, patience, and feedback. Without effective coaching, it is easy to fall back to old…

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    Why DASA DevOps Coach

    84% percent of digital transformations fail. For the 16% that don’t, success requires a fundamental shift in how people think about how they interact and how they collaborate and work. Organizations have spent time changing people’s behaviors, cultures, and decision-making. To make this fundamental shift, these successful organizations have created ‘Psychological Safety’ for their people.…

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    DASA DevOps Coach Program: Do I Need to Have Another Designation?

    I have a bunch of designations, certifications, credits, affiliations; you name it. When I first heard about the DevOps Agile Skills Associations (DASA) in 2016, I got involved because I’m a firm believer in the Agile and DevOps mindset. DASA DevOps and Agile principles go hand in hand; one does not work without the other.…

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    The Challenges of Driving a DevOps Culture

    The culture of any organisation is shaped by the worst behaviour the leader is willing to tolerate Gruenter and Whitaker I was talking to an Information Technology (IT) veteran recently, and he was discussing the transition from Traditional methods to Agile and now DevOps, which is being increasingly implemented in IT organisations around the world.…

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    The Story of an Agile Coach Becoming a DevOps Coach

    In January 2020, I and 8 other experienced DevOps and Agile practitioners from around the World became the first 9 DASA DevOps Coaches. DASA (DevOps Agile Skills Association) is a community driven organisation with the aim to improve skills and knowledge for DevOps teams and transformations. The DASA DevOps Coach certification is their latest development…

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    Why You Should Improve the Flow of Work

    The most important aspect of working with DevOps principles is to improve the flow of work through the organization. In the course of automating, solving problems, increasing deployment frequency, and shortening processes, you need to inevitably remove waste from the service creation and delivery system. As a result of removing waste, you will be able…

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    How to Lead in Today’s Disruptive Dysfunctional World

    Take a look at the world around us, what do you see? Dysfunction all around. Constant Change. Perpetual disruption. Let me share with you what I see: When looking for the root cause or asking the question “why” we are failing. The answer can be summarized in three words: culture, leadership, and communication. Culture Culture…

  • Simona Zarskutė

    ·

    How to Define DevOps

    Hundreds of definitions exist for DevOps. Here, we have captured three in which we highlighted essential elements by underlying them. As you can see, these elements stand for something larger than an intangible but also applicable to enterprise-wide IT improvement and continuous innovation of the IT capability. Key points: Source: DASA DevOps Fundamentals coursebook.

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    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…

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

    ·

    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…