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What Are the Different Roles in DevOps?
The DevOps team plays a crucial role in the success of DevOps initiatives. The structure of this team can vary based on the organization’s size, project goals, and other factors, but it should always be designed to foster collaboration and cross-functional collaboration. This typically involves bringing together individuals from different departments, such as development, operations,…
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7 Most Underachieved Business Benefits of DevOps
We live in a world of innovations, one where startups and new companies can completely displace or destabilize entire industries. Today, to remain in business, organizations are more focused on the four key criteria of faster delivery, improved stability, innovation, and reduced costs. DevOps supports these criteria in delivering value to customers with the traditional…
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Measuring Software Delivery Performance With DORA
Not sure when the last version of Windows shipped on a CD? In today’s fast-moving digital age, it would appear to be in the distant past. The current expansion of the CD acronym would be continuous delivery, not compact discs. That may give you an idea of how long it has been since software stopped…
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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…
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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.…
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7 Reasons Why We Need Transformational Leaders
Transformational leaders inspire transformational change, enabling people to adapt by simultaneously instilling confidence and motivating them. Among transformational leadership characteristics are the following: Transformational Leaders build company culture by motivating employees – moving from a frame of mind of self-interest to a mindset where they work for the common good. They also coach and mentor…
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There Are No Rules for DevOps; It Is Iterative
From both sides of the world, we see many rules. Rules can provide demarcation, structure, and safety, but conversely, they can be limiting and restrictive. Rules can therefore be seen as positive as well as negative. We have heard first-hand and read in various places that combining rules with DevOps is not a good thing.…
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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…
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How Do You Get the Board to Buy-in Your DevOps Transformation Plans?
Below I detail my key discoveries from the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Enterprise Leadership Forum (ELF) round table discussion on, “How do you get the board to buy-in your DevOps transformation plans?” A typical consulting answer to the question about how to gain board buy-in is, “That depends.” For my session, one panel member…
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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…
