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Getting Things Done – The Power of Sticky Tape and Post-it Notes
Hold your horses! We can’t do everything. You have to choose! The quote is from a one-day DevOps simulation session I recently ran at a Swedish company in the music streaming business. The person expressing the frustration was responsible for managing the team’s workload. Within the realm of the simulation, it was quite clear that…
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‘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…
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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…
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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.
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DASA Connects European Training Leaders
In September 2017, The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) hosted DASA Connect, a pan-European conference, in Rotterdam. With 35 participants from 15 countries, all major countries in Europe were represented. It was a busy week for DASA, as it organized a similar event in Asia concurrently.
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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…
