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DevOps Enterprise Adoption at CSG International with Erica Morrison

Erica Morrison, from CSG International, talks about their DevOps journey, key initiatives and lessons learned.

Manuel Pais
on Jul 31, 2017
Culture & Methods

Focus on Culture When Building an Engineering Culture

Sujith Nair explores why the clichéd “Engineering Culture” and related jargon need serious action beyond just boardroom discussion. Building an awesome Engineering Culture today needs more focus than ever. While there are no ready-made frameworks for building great engineering culture, there is a lot to be learnt from successful organizations.

Sujith Nair
on Jul 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Robot Says "Culture" - Moving towards Teal

Culture is something to be cultivated, something which will grow and evolve and must be cared for and nurtured. Most organizations today are stuck in an orange state of consciousness and culture. Let's explore the teal breakthroughs in self-management, evolutionary purpose and wholeness, and see how implementing teal-type working can lead to significant productivity and profitability gains.

Ash Sheikh
on Jul 03, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Timing Is Almost Everything

Executives can and should get involved with the way that software is being developed. In his book Timing is Almost Everything, Roland Racko shows how you can increase software success by using a "management by query" executive style in the early stages of software development initiatives to influence how teams think and behave.

Ben Linders
on May 29, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agendashift Part I

In the book Agendashift, Mike Burrows describes an inclusive, non-prescriptive, values-based, and outcome-centric approach to continuous transformation. He explores several lean and agile techniques that can be used in workshops and coaching to do lasting change.

Ben Linders
on May 16, 2017
DevOps

Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level

Serverless doesn’t only supplement DevOps, but it goes beyond the current thinking on how IT organisations can achieve greater business agility. It’s geared towards the rapid delivery of business value and continuous improvement and learning, and as such has clear potential to drive substantial cultural change, even in organisations that have adopted DevOps culture and practices already.

Rafal Gancarz
on Apr 28, 2017
Culture & Methods

Dialling in: Atkins and the Communication Challenge, Runners up to the 2017 Spark Award

The benefits of collaboration and knowledge sharing are well-known, yet any large organisation understands how challenging it is to keep employees feeling connected. The runners up to this year’s Spark Award, sponsored by HotelBeds, are Atkins, a design, engineering and project delivery organisation of over 18,000 people who have been experimenting with a mix of communication methods.

Helen Walton
on Apr 10, 2017
Development

Untangling an API-First Transformation at Scale. Lessons Learnt at PayPal – Part 3

This is the third in a three-part series that explores how PayPal has adopted a more API-first approach to building platform services. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the program aspects and some of the execution and operational challenges that had to be overcome.

Erik Hogan Deepak Nadig
on Mar 03, 2017
Culture & Methods

Tailoring Your DevOps Transformation to Organizational Culture

To build a high performance organization via DevOps, one often needs to change the organizational culture. Culture is a cornerstone which either amplifies or dooms strategic initiatives in your company. This case study shows how you can apply the competing values framework for culture change, supported by tools to measure and visualize culture.

Tomek Pająk
on Feb 22, 2017
DevOps

Virtual Panel on Bimodal IT

Bimodal IT has been supported by many and criticized by many. InfoQ reached out to enterprise experts to dig deeper into the pros and cons of this strategy and how/when/if is it applicable.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 31, 2016
DevOps

Respect Your Organisational Monoliths

There is a lot of information about DevOps, the technology, the culture, the behaviour. There is not a lot of information about tackling DevOps in large enterprises and there is certainly very little about tackling DevOps in large financial organisations. This article presents lessons learnt rolling out DevOps in a large insurance organisation.

Margo Cronin
on Aug 18, 2016
DevOps

DevOps Lessons Learned at Microsoft Engineering

Thiago Almeida from Microsoft shares how adopting DevOps practices resulted in better engineering and happier teams, and the lessons learned in that journey.

Thiago Almeida
on May 22, 2016

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