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Product: DASA DevOps Fundamentals

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

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    DevOps: A Boy Named Sue

    Everyone has an opinion about DevOps. Similar to what has happened to cloud, Agile, Lean and Scrum, this unavoidably leads to cult behavior. Strong beliefs, not only on what it really is but also how it should be integrated with current organizational and technological practices, lead to fierce discussions and multipolar behaviors. But does it…

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    Why the Cultural Element of DevOps Is Crucial

    The core of the DevOps culture is the emphasis on service. The following figure shows how this mindset helps to deliver a high-quality product. The focus on service is not just limited to ensuring a product is available for use by the customer. A service mindset ensures that a high-quality product is not only available…

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    Competing in the Digital Age With Lean Startup, Agile Software Development, and DevOps

    To compete in the digital age, it is becoming increasingly important to move away from an activity based functional teams to multidisciplinary product teams consisting of business ( product owners, designers, UX, business analysts… ) and IT (developers, testers, security, operations …. ) folks. However, for the newly created product based teams to become successful…

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    The Benefits & Pitfalls of Collaboration You Should Be Aware Of

    The success key of any team is teamwork, and the most important behavior of teamwork is collaboration. The meaning of collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is the central theme for DevOps Teams. Collaboration offers a number of benefits but also brings with it a number of pitfalls if not implemented effectively,…

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    The Culture Conundrum (To Succeed With Agile and DevOps Transformation, You Need to Get the Culture Right)

    One of the key success factors in Agile and DevOps transformation is the culture of the teams and the organization. However, since culture is intangible it is difficult to get a sense of whether you are getting culture right or wrong. So, instead of getting caught up prematurely in the minutiae of how to get…

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    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…

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    Why Taking DevOps “Literally” is No Solution

    To create independent and autonomous teams around services, you might be tempted to build teams with full-stack expertise as depicted in the following figure. Although this might be a better setup, it takes the DevOps approach too literally. Each team, now, needs all knowledge and skills, and reuse is almost zero. DevOps is often misunderstood…

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    Unleashing the Power of the Community — Creating Value With DASA Members

    Key Outcomes of DASA’s First Development Workshop One of the big ideas behind starting DASA was involving the community as a guiding force for building thought leadership. Every certification body or framework owner has a different model for building best practices, but the one that we like best is one where volunteers drive the creation…

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    TEST Section

    In this, part one of a two-part blog, I share my 25 years of IT expertise (and some current research) that indicates new leadership skills — including training on the new IT way of working — necessary to meet the new demands of managing DevOps Teams. And this isn’t just for CIOs. Middle management has…

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    Following Up: “DevOps in Action” Webinar

    The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) recently hosted a webinar with Paul Wilkinson, co-Owner of GamingWorks, in which he discussed The Phoenix Project Business Simulation and how it maps to the DASA Competence Framework. We received so many thought-provoking questions during the webinar, that we ended up running out of time. Fortunately, we were able…