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  • Joey van Kuilenburg

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    Why Taking DevOps “Literally” is No Solution

    To create independent and autonomous teams around services, you might be tempted to build teams with full-stack expertise as depicted in the following figure. Although this might be a better setup, it takes the DevOps approach too literally. Each team, now, needs all knowledge and skills, and reuse is almost zero. DevOps is often misunderstood…

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    Culture Follows Structure

    On January 17, 2019. Transavia hosted a highly interactive event “Fit for the Future,” enabled by CIO Platform Nederland and the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA). After several valuable lessons from Transavia and ABN AMRO Bank on their Agile and DevOps journeys, I had the privilege to facilitate one of the break-out sessions on Organizational…

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    10 Lessons Learned by Cios in Creating a Sustainable Cultural Change in a DevOps Transformation

    Most organizations with a strong dependence on IT have started experimenting with DevOps today. The path from Waterfall to DevOps typically leads through adopting Agile and Scrum but is not linear or the same for every organization. IT Leaders play an important part in realizing the transformational journey for their organization. As part of this…

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    “Fit for the Future”

    Bring on round two! After an intensive preparation between CIO Platform Nederland and DASA, the first thematic session of 2019 was a great success! Rik Farenhorst, CIO at Transavia and chairman of DASA DevOps Enterprise Leadership Forum acted as host. As part of the program, he gave a clear explanation of how far Transavia is…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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,…

  • Joey van Kuilenburg

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    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…

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    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…

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  • Joey van Kuilenburg

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    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…

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