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.
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.
Convincing people: Hercules is as strong as a lion
Link your DevOps transformation with a promising metaphor to win the minds.
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.
The Agile Waterfall
My generation is the generation before Agile; the generation of large SAP rollouts. We worked for years in a waterfall approach to implement new software for our customers. We were pretty good in our world. Not perfect, but for enterprises the approach had its advantages.
Making Decisions in an Agile Enterprise
In traditional enterprises, it takes time for someone to make a decision. A request from the team-level is carried up to the management level. There important information is missing and misery takes its course. Companies cannot always afford to make a decision with high quality information which involves all the stakeholders. The market is changing too fast, companies can not wait anymore.
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.