The amount of time you lose to distractions at work is much longer than you think. Learn how to refocus, regain lost time, and increase your productivity!
This paper considers the inseparability of service management and digital transformation, and examines how ITIL 4 drives the need for new ways of working.
Jesse Robbins discusses DevOps and Cloud Computing
Just over a year ago, Pearson, who published Continuous Delivery, approached Martin Fowler and I with a proposal to do a series of videos on the topic of continuous delivery. We filmed a bunch of material for these videos, but then both Martin and then I dropped out of the project due to other commitments.
Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery. Businesses rely on getting valuable new software into the hands of users as fast as possible, while making sure that they ke...
A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong.
The engineers who build and run Kickstarter share a behind-the-scenes look at their work, from approaches to open source and code review to feature releases.
John Kotter’s now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe.
We are all familiar with guardrails on highways. They are put there to keep a simple mishap from turning into a full-blown catastrophe. If you go a little off course, the rails help you regain the path towards your destination. —Anonymous Lean Budget Guardrails SAFe provides Lean budgeting strategies that eliminate traditional project-based funding and cost accounting overhead. In this model, LPM maintains appropriate levels of oversight through allocating value stream budgets and applying Lean budget guardrails. This way, enterprisesRead more
Agile software development and traditional cost accounting don’t match. —Rami Sirkia and Maarit Laanti [1] Lean Budgets When implementing Scaled Agile, many organizations quickly realize that the drive for Business Agility through Lean-Agile development conflicts with traditional budgeting and project cost accounting methods. As a result, moving to Lean-Agile development—and realizing the potential business benefits—is compromised, or worse, blocked entirely. To address this problem, SAFe introduces Lean Budgets as its approach to financial governance. Details Each SAFe portfolio operates withinRead more
The Lean-Agile Leadership competency describes how Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential. They do this through leading by example, learning and modeling SAFe’s Lean-Agile mindset, values, principles, and practices, and leading the change to a new way of working.
Learn How Value Stream Mapping Applies to Any Industry or Process
http://GembaAcademy.com | In this video Ron Pereira explains what value stream mapping is all about and how it can be used to map any process - manufacturing...
(Let me be clear up front: this is a potentially controversial post. It proposes radical change in the way we do things. But I feel strongly about it, and I think this needs to be said.) Over the last few …
Within systems engineering, quality attributes are realized non-functional requirements used to evaluate the performance of a system. These are sometimes named architecture characteristics, or "ilities" after the suffix many of the words share. They are usually architecturally significant requirements that require architects' attention.[1]
Changing the working world, one day at a time. In these times of a competitive employment market, companies are looking at how keep and nurture the best, and 'time' itself, could be the best currency.
In 1960, Douglas MacGregor, a student of Abraham Maslow, introduced the management concept of Theory X and Theory Y (Rice University, N.D.). They are essentially different approaches to management.…
Machine Learning, AI Driving DevOps Evolution - DevOps.com
Automation is the fuel that drives DevOps. Automating routine, repeatable tasks is one of the defining characteristics of DevOps culture. As artificial
Make improvement stories a key part of your Scrum | LinkedIn
Many companies are using Scrum, however some struggle with achieving really effective teams. When teams feel the pressure from the business and Product Owner, look at all the work they have to do, and how much time they have to do it, working on improvements seems unimportant.
Measuring Success at Capital One – The Goat Farm – S1E13
We all think DevOps is a better way to work, but how can you begin to measure aspects of your DevOps transformation. In this episode we talk to Adam Auerbach and Topo Pal of Capital One, and learn …