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Cloud Strategy’s Cultural Dimension: Why DevOps Is Essential for Cloud Success
Optimizing Your Cloud Strategy: The Cultural Dimension – Lessons From the Recent Past and Why DevOps Is Essential for Cloud Success. When we encounter a new and disruptive technology such as the cloud, it is natural to try and build a playbook from scratch on how to succeed with it. However, it would be wasteful…
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DevOps Can Replace Project and Program Management (Myth 2)
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of blogs discussing five current myths about DevOps and has been created by Lawrie Kirk, our DASA Ambassador located in Australia. Lawrie has written this blog from the perspective of his experience as a consultant, program, and project manager. We look forward to the discussion that…
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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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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…
