I'd start with small batches. Quite a lot of the benefits come out of just doing fewer things between each release.
It's fair to say that culture eats everything else alive. It's also the hardest thing to change. I've worked in a few places where we felt helpless to impact the culture and creating a culture-bubble (i.e. to the extent…
Accelerate: The science of Lean Software and DevOps Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim IT Revolution ISBN 978-1-942788-33-1
You may like Platform Engineering even more as there's a lot of crossover with what you mention. A key difference from your list is that you enable teams to build and run their own applications, so they remain…
Companies who need every engineer to "Do Everything™" are doing it wrong. A team may need to cover a lot of ground, but by putting together folks who have different skills. It's a management skill to assemble a team…
Yes, there is that! ;)
DevOps part one was just "developers and operations working more closely together". It only really required the managers to update the goals of the two specilizations to remove the conflict (developers are rewarded for…
Rather than a maturity model, DORA use metrics and a capability model. The idea is you use the metrics to decide on which capabilities to focus on. This tailoring to your context is the great thing about it - it's what…
Cynefin is a great model - I must admit I've been insterested in it for a long time (I think Liz Keogh brought it to my attention) - but I've not applied it practically. Anyone got ideas for using it IRL?
I'd start with small batches. Quite a lot of the benefits come out of just doing fewer things between each release.
It's fair to say that culture eats everything else alive. It's also the hardest thing to change. I've worked in a few places where we felt helpless to impact the culture and creating a culture-bubble (i.e. to the extent…
Accelerate: The science of Lean Software and DevOps Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim IT Revolution ISBN 978-1-942788-33-1
You may like Platform Engineering even more as there's a lot of crossover with what you mention. A key difference from your list is that you enable teams to build and run their own applications, so they remain…
Companies who need every engineer to "Do Everything™" are doing it wrong. A team may need to cover a lot of ground, but by putting together folks who have different skills. It's a management skill to assemble a team…
Yes, there is that! ;)
DevOps part one was just "developers and operations working more closely together". It only really required the managers to update the goals of the two specilizations to remove the conflict (developers are rewarded for…
Rather than a maturity model, DORA use metrics and a capability model. The idea is you use the metrics to decide on which capabilities to focus on. This tailoring to your context is the great thing about it - it's what…
Cynefin is a great model - I must admit I've been insterested in it for a long time (I think Liz Keogh brought it to my attention) - but I've not applied it practically. Anyone got ideas for using it IRL?