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.
Autonomy vs. Standardization in Digital Enterprises
In the early years, standardization was the starting point for IT cost cutting and gaining efficiency. Fewer tools, fewer versions, fewer programming languages, fewer frameworks and fewer processes — all as a guarantee for less spent on maintenance, upgrades, security and talent management. But since the Agile Manifesto movement, companies realize that standardization kills not only innovation, but leads also to more frustration for employees.
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.