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We Do Not Need Structure in a DevOps Environment (Myth 1)
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of blogs discussing five current myths about DevOps. The blogs have been compiled by our DASA Ambassadors, Frank Faber in the Netherlands, and Lawrie Kirk in Australia. Both Frank and Lawrie have written this blog from the perspective of their experiences as consultants and program and…
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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…
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The Hardest Principle
DASA’s entire DevOps curriculum is built around six key principles. Together they cover all the relevant topics you could or should consider when becoming a DevOps professional or when implementing the DevOps way of working within your company. As with all things in life, the six principles are not all equally hard to master. Depending…
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How DevOps and CI/CD Contribute to Antifragility
I started exploring DevOps back in 2013. After my upstream journey from programming via designing and requirements engineering to strategy development, I started my downstream journey to examine how strategy can be implemented more quickly and what obstacles need to be overcome in order to do so. I came across literally all the waste that…
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A Practical Example of the Application of the DASA Team Competence Model
As anyone acquainted with DASA knows, the Team Competence Model defines the essential skills and capabilities needed in a DevOps team. In this article, I’d like to show the process I followed to apply it. Before you start looking at the Team Competence Model, it’s important to familiarize & understand some of the most related …
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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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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.…
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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…
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Why You Should Improve the Flow of Work
The most important aspect of working with DevOps principles is to improve the flow of work through the organization. In the course of automating, solving problems, increasing deployment frequency, and shortening processes, you need to inevitably remove waste from the service creation and delivery system. As a result of removing waste, you will be able…
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How to Lead in Today’s Disruptive Dysfunctional World
Take a look at the world around us, what do you see? Dysfunction all around. Constant Change. Perpetual disruption. Let me share with you what I see: When looking for the root cause or asking the question “why” we are failing. The answer can be summarized in three words: culture, leadership, and communication. Culture Culture…
