Oct
4,
2022
Agile Culture – Change
The first part of this article series dealt with the fundamental question of what culture is, how culture can be understood, and what impact culture has on the way we work in an organization. After this stocktaking, the second part deals with the question of how culture can be actively...
Sep
6,
2022
Agile Culture – Introduction
Agility has long been a topic in organizations of all sizes. In an environment of increasing complexity, agility can become a key competitive advantage. It's no wonder, then, that companies want to use agile frameworks to organize knowledge work. However, introducing techniques is not enough. Becoming truly agile as an...
May
10,
2022
Agile values and the Agile Manifesto
Scrum has become a symbol of enterprise agility. Agility and scrum are often used synonymously. But anyone who does Scrum is not automatically agile, even though the framework can serve as a path to agility. Strict adherence to the Agile Manifesto’s values is much more decisive.
Sep
28,
2021
Top 4 reasons to attend DevOps Conference
So you’ve decided to attend DevOps Conference but you don’t know how to break it to your boss that it is a win-win situation. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Follow four simple steps and use these arguments to show why your organization needs to invest in DevOps Conference!
Aug
24,
2021
KISS of Death by Complexity?
KISS means: Keep it simple, stupid! In other words: Don't make it unnecessarily complicated. That sounds good and desirable. But don't we tend to do the opposite in practice? If you look around, we are up to our necks in complexity. Instead of doing something about it, we are busy...
Feb
19,
2020
Production readiness reviews and the right time to start production
The right time for Production Readiness Reviews and the start of production is not always clear. We spoke with Jaana B. Dogan, Software Engineer at Google, at DevOpsCon 2019 about when you are "production ready", what that actually means and when is the right time for Production Readiness Reviews.
Jan
20,
2020
Peace through nonviolent communication
Nonviolent communication will help you communicate with your coworkers in a manner that enables productivity and helps you understand how their unmet needs might lead to negative interactions. Successful communication is a huge part of a project’s success – everyone on the team can benefit from NVC. In her session...
Sep
27,
2019
How we killed DevOps by creating a dedicated DevOps team
Implementing DevOps in your own company is usually not an easy task. In his session at the DevOpsCon 2019 Adam Nowak told his story about DevOps. Decorated with numerous practical examples he showed how DevOps can be implemented after all.
Jul
4,
2018
DevOps becomes BizDevOps
The full advantage of DevOps can only be achieved if development and operations work together with the specialist departments and management on a value adding product. Or to put more radical: The topic is no longer called DevOps, but BizDevOps. The integration of business and DevOps changes the cooperation, organization,...
Aug
18,
2017
John Willis discusses the human factor of DevOps
High-performing organizations seem to have one common pattern: they put a high value on human capital. JAXenter editor Hartmut Schlosser talked to John Willis, Director of Ecosystem Development at Docker, Inc about how to turn human capital into high performance organizational capital.