Tag: Modernizing IT Operations & Infrastructure

  • How Computrain Drives Growth Using DASA’s DevOps Courses

    DASA is continually developing the DevOps course curriculum and refreshing the materials. You get more than just ‘here’s the course and good luck.’ They really want to build the market together. Sjon Post, Computrain Portfolio Manager About Computrain is a leading Dutch IT training organization with a rich 40-year history and broad portfolio of digital…

  • Value Streams Definition and Guide

    The definition of the value stream easiest to relate to is the manufacturing value stream. The value stream represents the set of activities to be performed to deliver an item of value to the customer. The manufacturing value stream produces a physical product. The customer and market forces assign a monetary value to the product.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 …