Enterprise DevOps & SRE: How to lead them into obsession
One of the most likely reasons that transformations stagnate and fail is a lack of a plan to motivate people. A motivation plan tangibly improves workflow, and when it’s well executed it spreads the obsession for success throughout the company.
Motivation can’t be mandated or forced. It also won’t happen on it’s own. Employees won’t just show up highly motivated: it’s part of leadership’s duty to make them so. Managers must leverage many different ways to motivate their practitioners if they want success.
We don’t have to find Permit A38: better faster Incident Management
Incident management breaks down the silo between the developers and our customer
Hot or Cold? Temperature Check!
Scaling DevOps requires automating the approvals for low risk changes in production
Why do you run?
We do DevOps to iterate faster, run experiments to optimize our product for our customer.
Just one hour, what your team tells you…
Do value stream mapping frequently with your team
It's more complex than you think
You can install a new tool in minutes, but you need weeks or months to learn to use it productively.
Operations in DevOps: Command & Conquer
To accelerate your incident response use the structure: command, communicate and operate.
Accelerate DevOps: How does your garden grow?
Continuous Optimization starts with writing down the process, defining the objectives, change, control, learn, repeat.
Convincing people: Hercules is as strong as a lion
Link your DevOps transformation with a promising metaphor to win the minds.
We don’t have to find Permit A38: better faster Incident Management
Incident management breaks down the silo between the developers and our customer.
Jumpstart your DevOps presentations: a toolkit for success
Most companies have already started with DevOps. Now they are scaling it up to an enterprise level. In this process, communication is key: communication to established teams, to your leadership and to late adopters with legacy technologies. Quite often some of them have to adjust their work, change established behavior and receive new responsibilities.
Structure, Structure, Structure or three options to order your DevOps story
In consulting, communication skills are the tools of our trade. They differentiate your work between success and failure. But you don't learn them at the required level in school or in jobs outside of consulting. The first step to improve your communication is to find and use the right structure.
DevOps: How to empower your team
Set a challenging mission, let the team define the stages of the journey and control the outcome. But only trust and empowerment make it happen.
The way a young colleague started in my company reminded me of how teams start in a DevOps transformation. Here I will share Peter’s story and explain the approach we take in the DevOps journey.
Bringing DevSecOps transformations to maturity with team dynamics
Companies are going through a digital transformation. Most enterprises have already moved to become ‘Agile Enterprises.’ The logical next step is the DevSecOps transformation where the focus is on optimizing development, operations, and consequently security, in order to reduce the time it takes to get to the market. The DevSecOps transformation, however, has its own complexity.
DevOps: How to start scaling better, faster
Large scale enterprises are struggling to adopt the transformation to a digital enterprise. DevOps is an important part in this journey. As a consultant we are writing the DevOps story for our client and this story will make or break our client’s digital transformation. We have to lead with a portfolio analysis that creates initial success. When clients experience success in the early part of the process, the story has a positive beginning. This overcomes the resistance and failure that we encounter so often.