Tag: Growing and Developing the Next Generation of Digital Leaders

  • 5 Top Talent Management Trends 2022

    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…

  • Intro: Why Antifragility?

    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…

  • How Do You Get the Board to Buy-in Your DevOps Transformation Plans?

    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…

  • DevOps Consulting: A New Global Opportunity

    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…

  • Skills to Remain Relevant in 21st Century and Enabling High-Performance Digital Organizations

    Skills to Remain Relevant in 21st Century and Enabling High-Performance Digital Organizations

    To stay relevant in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, organizations are looking for ways to decrease their time to market and become more customer-centric. This requires new ways of working like Agile, DevOps, and new 21st century skills. The Agile/DevOps movement began in 2001 and so far has been largely IT-driven. When you look at…

  • DASA Competence & Reference Model : Using the Best of Agile and DevOps to Become a High Performing Product Team

    DASA Competence & Reference Model : Using the Best of Agile and DevOps to Become a High Performing Product Team

    High performing product teams : Agile + DevOps + Lean product management = Excellence in software development, deployment and operations. As organizations increasingly rely on software to deliver business services, they are realizing that they need to excel at developing, deploying and operating software based products and services. But that isn’t easy – building and…

  • The Phoenix Project Simulation + DASA DevOps Coach Certification = Best in Class DevOps Coaches

    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…

  • Why DASA DevOps Coach

    Why DASA DevOps Coach

    84% percent of digital transformations fail. For the 16% that don’t, success requires a fundamental shift in how people think about how they interact and how they collaborate and work. Organizations have spent time changing people’s behaviors, cultures, and decision-making. To make this fundamental shift, these successful organizations have created ‘Psychological Safety’ for their people.…

  • Digital Transformation and DevOps

    Digital Transformation and DevOps

    Transformation “Transformation” has become a part of our everyday business lexicon, just like other associated words, such as “Strategy.” Over the past decade, the pace of organizational transformations has picked up due to many market driven considerations, such as changing customer demographics and their expectations, technology, startup competitors with their disruptive business models, and other…

  • DASA DevOps Coach Program: Do I Need to Have Another Designation?

    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.…