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  • Joey van Kuilenburg

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    Suffering from Development Work, Why Won’t it Fly?

    Developing and Delivering a Service needs feedback! USE DEVOPS! The advice to “Use DevOps” might still be confusing for many people. It is like saying, “Use a bike,” to someone who doesn’t know how to ride one and suggesting they do so without guidance. Hence, we worked with a group of eight people and compiled…

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    Learning Journeys to Boost Employee Skill Enhancement

    What is a Learning Journey? It is a set of formal and non-formal learning experiences that take place over a period of time and involve a range of approaches to enhance employees’ professional aptitudes, develop their current skills and abilities, and improve their behavior. It means that learning journeys should satisfy employees’ urge to learn…

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    Optimizing Talent Retention with the Three Ways of DevOps

    IT organizations are increasingly relying on technology to bring capabilities of automation, self-service capabilities, continuous measurement, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize their operations but one of the most important pieces of the puzzle is people.  In a study by Gartner, it was found that over 80% of respondents said that their organization will be challenged…

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    7 Most Underachieved Business Benefits of DevOps

    We live in a world of innovations, one where startups and new companies can completely displace or destabilize entire industries. Today, to remain in business, organizations are more focused on the four key criteria of faster delivery, improved stability, innovation, and reduced costs. DevOps supports these criteria in delivering value to customers with the traditional…

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    How Computrain Drives Growth Using DASA’s DevOps Courses

    DASA is continually developing the DevOps course curriculum and refreshing the materials. You get more than just ‘here’s the course and good luck.’ They really want to build the market together. Sjon Post, Computrain Portfolio Manager About Computrain is a leading Dutch IT training organization with a rich 40-year history and broad portfolio of digital…

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    Value Streams Definition and Guide

    The definition of the value stream easiest to relate to is the manufacturing value stream. The value stream represents the set of activities to be performed to deliver an item of value to the customer. The manufacturing value stream produces a physical product. The customer and market forces assign a monetary value to the product.…

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    Cloud Strategy’s Cultural Dimension: Why DevOps Is Essential for Cloud Success

    Optimizing Your Cloud Strategy: The Cultural Dimension – Lessons From the Recent Past and Why DevOps Is Essential for Cloud Success. When we encounter a new and disruptive technology such as the cloud, it is natural to try and build a playbook from scratch on how to succeed with it. However, it would be wasteful…

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    Intro: Why Antifragility?

    COVID-19 has taught us that agility and resilience are not the only capabilities that organisations needed yesterday; they also need antifragility. Antifragility can be best described as the ability to thrive as a direct result of stressors, shocks, attacks, or failures. The concept was first described by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That…

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    DevOps Can Replace Project and Program Management (Myth 2)

    Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of blogs discussing five current myths about DevOps and has been created by Lawrie Kirk, our DASA Ambassador located in Australia. Lawrie has written this blog from the perspective of his experience as a consultant, program, and project manager. We look forward to the discussion that…

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    We Do Not Need Structure in a DevOps Environment (Myth 1)

    Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of blogs discussing five current myths about DevOps. The blogs have been compiled by our DASA Ambassadors, Frank Faber in the Netherlands, and Lawrie Kirk in Australia. Both Frank and Lawrie have written this blog from the perspective of their experiences as consultants and program and…

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