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Establishing ‘Non-negotiables’ to Build a Positive Culture at Home and at Work
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion. Brian Chesky When I was young, there were certain rules that were strictly implemented in my home. One of them was for my siblings and I to share everything to foster a strong sense of equality and ‘justice’. If I went to a birthday…
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Leveraging Stories to Drive DevOps Culture
We tell stories to feel at home in the Universe Roger Bingham, British science communicator, writer, and public television producer and host I perfectly recollect the moment I joined my first organization after finishing my MBA, way back in the early nineties. I was casually informed about an employee who fudged his travel expense statement…
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Thank You DASA Partners and Best Wishes for 2020!
2019 was a successful year for DASA. Thanks to all of you around the world for contributing to our fast-growing DevOps community! Building on the momentum of the previous years, 2019 continued with strong growth and adoption of DASA DevOps in the global marketplace. DASA expanded its footprint into new markets and introduced new certifications…
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DevOps: A Boy Named Sue
Everyone has an opinion about DevOps. Similar to what has happened to cloud, Agile, Lean and Scrum, this unavoidably leads to cult behavior. Strong beliefs, not only on what it really is but also how it should be integrated with current organizational and technological practices, lead to fierce discussions and multipolar behaviors. But does it…
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Eisenbahnscheinbewegung, or Fake High-Performance Transformations
Over the past years, I’ve seen quite some interesting organizational transformations. No matter which labels were being used (agile, Lean, DevOps), all promise for a collaborative culture with high-performing teams and flows of value. In my experience, the major challenge in any of those transformations is to achieve a sense of ownership and shared responsibility…
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The Business Case for DevOps (Fully Realize the Business Benefits of Agile Software Development)
The thinking that Agile software development and DevOps are different and separate frameworks, and hence need to be adopted separately seems to be taking hold. This is obviously, incorrect and has insidious long term consequence as it will perpetuate the divide between Dev and Ops. Although, Agile software development preceded DevOps – Agile software development…
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The Culture Conundrum (To Succeed With Agile and DevOps Transformation, You Need to Get the Culture Right)
One of the key success factors in Agile and DevOps transformation is the culture of the teams and the organization. However, since culture is intangible it is difficult to get a sense of whether you are getting culture right or wrong. So, instead of getting caught up prematurely in the minutiae of how to get…
