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.
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.
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.
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.
Get more bang from the IT buck!
Enterprise companies have to free budget space for driving their change towards use of modern software development practices. By implementing a portfolio strategy which combines sourcing and the focus on modern software practices like DevSecOps, Agile Software Development and new Technologies. Companies benefit with a faster moving organisation focused on their clients where it makes sense.
Things happen… and then you Waterfall: The Strategic View on Agile
The reality is that in most enterprise companies, Waterfall and Agile coexist. To get the best from both worlds a portfolio strategy is required which encompasses the two models in parallel. Respect for both models is required to bring their full value to organizations.
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.