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DevOps Coaching: Understanding Its Facets and Assessing Its Impact
As little as one may know about what it means to be a DevOps Coach, there’s one thing that virtually everyone agrees upon. DevOps Coaches help organizations and teams to a higher “performance level” by working more efficiently and effectively. In many organizations, the Scrum Masters are the DevOps Coaches, but not everywhere is Scrum…
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Building Cross-Functional Teams in the DevOps Transformation Process
Being able to position members with cross-functional competencies within the team is one of the critical issues for Agile and DevOps transformation processes. However, no matter how much time you spend, it is unlikely that each member of the team will have every competency needed at the top level. In order to create high performing…
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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…
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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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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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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.
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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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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…
