Tag: Wiring the Enterprise for Flow & Value Maximization

  • Business-DevOps-Business Value Stream

    It’s in the ‘prequel’ and the‘ sequel’ for realizing Business Value DevOps seemed to be the hot topic at itSMF USA – Fusion 18 IT Service Management conference. There was a dedicated DevOps track, a highlight of the Executive Connections programme was DevOps luminary Gene Kim’s exclusive session, sponsored by DASA. DASA was well represented,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Getting Things Done – The Power of Sticky Tape and Post-it Notes

    Hold your horses! We can’t do everything. You have to choose! The quote is from a one-day DevOps simulation session I recently ran at a Swedish company in the music streaming business. The person expressing the frustration was responsible for managing the team’s workload. Within the realm of the simulation, it was quite clear that…

  • ‘Translating Competence’ Into ‘Value’

    What did 35 Senior IT leaders from an International Technology group discover after participating in Phoenix Project business simulation? ‘This was eye-opening!’ Said one manager. ‘We need to take away this concept of BizDevOps’ said another after experiencing the importance of DASA ‘Business Value Optimization.’ Shaping Leadership Ambitions Serview and GamingWorks, two DASA Forerunners, facilitated…

  • Following Up: “DevOps in Action” Webinar

    The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) recently hosted a webinar with Paul Wilkinson, co-Owner of GamingWorks, in which he discussed The Phoenix Project Business Simulation and how it maps to the DASA Competence Framework. We received so many thought-provoking questions during the webinar, that we ended up running out of time. Fortunately, we were able…

  • A Case Study: Increasing Training ROI with DASA

    Developing employee competencies is an important activity faced by all IT Managers. They must make sure the team has the right knowledge, skills, behaviors and attitudes to do their jobs at the level expected, and also to create the right culture to innovate and keep the work attractive enough to retain employees.

  • DevOps: A Culture, a Movement, a Practice

    If you’ve been working in or interacting with the IT world recently, you have probably noticed the use of the term DevOps is on the rise. This increase is fueling a growing curiosity around what DevOps actually is. In response to this, Clutch surveyed 247 organizations about their perceptions and experiences with DevOps to gain…

  • 3 DevOps Trends for 2017

    DevOps is still shining bright in 2017! In this blog post, we will discuss three new trends which you need to keep an eye on this year according to CA Technologies: 1. Testing will continue to grow as a topic of interest In order to ensure high-quality code in an accelerated development environment, it is…