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Why DevOps Culture Matters: Leaders Talk About the Keys to Making Change Successful and Sustainable
A recent Software Delivery Leadership Forum panel discussion shared approaches and tactics for creating a successful DevOps culture. The panel stressed the importance of an aligned culture around the DevOps adoption. This includes setting strategic organizational goals, cultivating psychological safety, and treating your culture as a product.
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Site Reliability Engineering Experiences at Instana
With the popularity of distributed architectures, distributed databases, containers and container orchestrators, an approach that emphasizes automation and a culture of collaboration is a natural fit for modern day operations. Site Reliability Engineering takes engineering practices that have been established and proven in software engineering and applies them to the field of operations.
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Challenges of Working Remotely in Africa
Remote work can present new complexities such as communication gaps, time zone challenges, and even lack of transparency. Nonetheless, a well-managed remote team can readily overcome all these issues while discovering many benefits at the same time. This article focuses on the current situation in Africa citing specific challenges and solutions drawn from real companies in Nigeria.
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Zuzana Šochová on Becoming an Agile Leader
The book The Agile Leader by Zuzana Šochová explains the need for agile leaders and explores what agile leadership looks like. It describes the skills of agile leaders, practices that they use, and provides exercises and assessments that can be used to become an agile leader.
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Moving from Collocated Management to Remote Leadership
Management in a remote organization is vastly different from that in a collocated one. Copying in-person interactions to digital tools does not cultivate a great culture nor does it contribute to better collaboration. This article aims to give you an idea of what the move to remote leadership entails and why it is essential for the success of any business in the remote work era.
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Nine Trends That Are Influencing the Adoption of Devops and Devsecops in 2021
While it’s important to recognize the value of both DevOps and DevSecOps, they are not one-size-fits-all, monolithic, permanent paradigms. In this article, we’ll take a look at that ongoing development – isolating and explaining nine key trends that are driving and changing the adoption of DevOps, DevSecOps, and a number of related approaches to development and management.
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Designing & Managing for Resilience
The fourth article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience explores the strategies used by engineering leaders to help create the conditions for sustained resilience. It provides stories, examples, and strategies towards designing an organizational structure to support resilient performance and managing for resilience.
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Signs You’re in a Death Spiral (and How to Turn It around before It’s Too Late)
Don’t let feature work blind you. Enterprises are ramping up their software delivery to compete in the digital-first world. But more features and faster time-to-market can lead your business into a death spiral if you neglect technical debt and risk work. Learn how to use value stream metrics to identify whether your business is in danger and how to reverse the trajectory before it’s too late.
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Which Industries Would Benefit the Most from Agile Innovation
When we assign measurable criteria to innovation, we can pinpoint which industries are falling behind the curve. Fortunately, there are many ways in which introducing agile processes can help organisations deliver innovation projects in quick succession for increased long-term value and customer satisfaction.
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DevOps is Not Enough for Scaling and Evolving Tech-Driven Organizations: a Q&A with Eduardo da Silva
Eduardo Silva from bol.com on the need for sociotechnical systems thinking. DevOps is a good starting point but a wider view of the organization as a sociotechnical system is key for sustained growth.
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The Flow System: Getting Fast Customer Feedback and Managing Flow
The Flow System elevates Lean Thinking in an age of complexity by combining complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science into the Triple Helix of Flow, which organizations can use to become more innovative, adaptive, and resilient. This first article explores the importance of quality, getting fast feedback from customers, the concept of flow, and The Flow System.
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Strategies to Modernize, Maintain, and Future-Proof Systems
The book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti provides strategies that organizations can use to modernize, maintain, and future-proof their systems. She suggests choosing strategies based on the organizational context, and defining what value you’re hoping to see from modernization.