Tag: Creating a Culture of High Performance

  • SIMPRAGMA and YAYATI, Enabling Digital Transformations – Powered by DASA

    SIMPRAGMA and YAYATI, Enabling Digital Transformations – Powered by DASA

    Simpragma is a boutique organisation with passionate experts who operate as “IT seals” on mission critical projects for start-ups and large organizations. Their expertise includes Simpragma is mastering all the major (DevOps) tools, techniques, languages and they commit to deliver at 10X-Speed and 10X-Scale. Simpragma is following DASA DevOps methodologies to develop individuals into High…

  • Kairos Digital Solutions a DevOps Powerhouse – Powered by DASA

    Kairos Digital Solutions a DevOps Powerhouse – Powered by DASA

    Kairos DS is a fast-growing, visionary, Agile-DevOps Powerhouse and rapidly expanding its footprint accross the globe. Headquartered in Madrid with offices in various geographies Kairos is empowering organizations moving to new digital business models, covering end-to-end services from consulting, coaching, training to software development. All packaged in a hands-on and no nonsense approach. A core…

  • The DevOps Summit Amsterdam Finding the Balance Between Adopting Tools and Taking the Organization Along in a DevOps Journey

    The DevOps Summit Amsterdam Finding the Balance Between Adopting Tools and Taking the Organization Along in a DevOps Journey

    The DevOps Summit Amsterdam was a great success!  Xebia’s Marco Lormans host and moderator of the event along with CEO Consultancy Services Andrew de la Haije who delivered a warm welcome to the participants and opened the summit. There were over 200 participants from across Europe who came together to listen to Thought Leaders, Pioneers,…

  • DevOps Enterprise Summit – Accelerating DevOps Teams

    DevOps Enterprise Summit – Accelerating DevOps Teams

    A week has passed since the DevOps Enterprise Summit took place in Vegas, and the reviews are rolling in. Overall the response is overwhelmingly positive, and it is so exciting to see the industry come together and share experiences and learn from each other. A central theme in all the reviews is the importance of building high…

  • Business-DevOps-Business Value Stream

    Business-DevOps-Business Value Stream

    It’s in the ‘prequel’ and the‘ sequel’ for realizing Business Value DevOps seemed to be the hot topic at itSMF USA – Fusion 18 IT Service Management conference. There was a dedicated DevOps track, a highlight of the Executive Connections programme was DevOps luminary Gene Kim’s exclusive session, sponsored by DASA. DASA was well represented,…

  • Executive Connections Insights

    Executive Connections Insights

    The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) was a sponsor of the ‘Executive Connections’ sessions held for leaders at itSMF USA – Fusion 18 Conference in St Louis. One of the program activities was a chance to explore DevOps challenges and recommendations with Gene Kim, keynote speaker and author of the Phoenix Project book. These are…

  • 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…

  • Building DASA Competencies and DevOps Leadership Through Business Simulations

    Building DASA Competencies and DevOps Leadership Through Business Simulations

    I recently facilitated a Phoenix Project simulation on behalf of Microsoft for the IT leaders of one of its customer organizations; in this blog you can get an idea of how simulations help organizational leadership understand the importance of the DASA DevOps core skill areas. 3 Part Blog In March 2018 Microsoft in the Netherlands…

  • If You Want to Lead in DevOps, You Gotta Have Game

    If You Want to Lead in DevOps, You Gotta Have Game

    As a long-time creator and facilitator of serious gaming for business – simulations, in other words – I have seen first-hand, time after time, how serious gaming provides organizations with an opportunity to shift company culture, and start to create teams where once there were silos. 3 Part Blog The dramatically different leadership needs emerging…

  • TEST Section

    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…