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Joey van Kuilenburg
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Suffering from Development Work, Why Won’t it Fly?
Developing and Delivering a Service needs feedback! USE DEVOPS! The advice to “Use DevOps” might still be confusing for many people. It is like saying, “Use a bike,” to someone who doesn’t know how to ride one and suggesting they do so without guidance. Hence, we worked with a group of eight people and compiled…
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Joey van Kuilenburg
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Learning Journeys to Boost Employee Skill Enhancement
What is a Learning Journey? It is a set of formal and non-formal learning experiences that take place over a period of time and involve a range of approaches to enhance employees’ professional aptitudes, develop their current skills and abilities, and improve their behavior. It means that learning journeys should satisfy employees’ urge to learn…
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Joey van Kuilenburg
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Optimizing Talent Retention with the Three Ways of DevOps
IT organizations are increasingly relying on technology to bring capabilities of automation, self-service capabilities, continuous measurement, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize their operations but one of the most important pieces of the puzzle is people. In a study by Gartner, it was found that over 80% of respondents said that their organization will be challenged…
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Joey van Kuilenburg
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What are DASA Recognition Badges?
In today’s complex world, we are witnessing the survival and prosperity of the lean, the agile, the inventive, the curious, the bold, and the brave. As IT organizations strive to stay ahead of the curve in the ever-changing competitive landscape, upskilled and engaged employees will make a lasting impact on your organization’s DevOps transformation. Achieving…
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Joey van Kuilenburg
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7 Reasons Why We Need Transformational Leaders
Transformational leaders inspire transformational change, enabling people to adapt by simultaneously instilling confidence and motivating them. Among transformational leadership characteristics are the following: Transformational Leaders build company culture by motivating employees – moving from a frame of mind of self-interest to a mindset where they work for the common good. They also coach and mentor…
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Simona Zarskutė
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Experiencing Digital Talent Squeeze? Strategies to Help You Manage
We are continually seeing reports today about the ‘great resignation’ and the need for strategies to manage the onboarding, development, and retention of employees. The need for these strategies has been primarily driven by the rise in Covid cases. However, even before the pandemic, we were in an age of ‘digital disruption’ driving ‘agile transformations,’…
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Joey van Kuilenburg
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5 Top Talent Management Trends 2022
The worldwide pandemic has caused huge workplace disruptions in the last couple of years. The changes will not stop in 2022, considering all the new Covid variants that are continuously emerging and shaping the way of working. This article explores the underlying talent management trends that are going to shape the current year: 1. Employee…
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Joey van Kuilenburg
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Intro: Why Antifragility?
COVID-19 has taught us that agility and resilience are not the only capabilities that organisations needed yesterday; they also need antifragility. Antifragility can be best described as the ability to thrive as a direct result of stressors, shocks, attacks, or failures. The concept was first described by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That…
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Joey van Kuilenburg
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How Do You Get the Board to Buy-in Your DevOps Transformation Plans?
Below I detail my key discoveries from the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Enterprise Leadership Forum (ELF) round table discussion on, “How do you get the board to buy-in your DevOps transformation plans?” A typical consulting answer to the question about how to gain board buy-in is, “That depends.” For my session, one panel member…
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Joey van Kuilenburg
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DevOps Consulting: A New Global Opportunity
Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology once said, “Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.” This is one of the reasons we both become DASA DevOps Ambassadors, to expand our knowledge about DevOps. After many years in the project and program…
