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Simplifying the Technology Landscape
This article is part of a series on transforming into a high-performance digital organization. To explore the six key themes and start your transformation journey, click here → A cluttered and outdated technology landscape can be a significant barrier to innovation and agility. Simplifying this landscape is essential for organizations aiming to stay competitive and responsive to…
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Transforming into a High-Performance Digital Organization (HPDO): Six Key Themes
Based on extensive research and practical engagement with organizations of varying sizes and across continents, DASA has identified six critical themes essential for achieving High-Performance Digital Organizations (HPDOs). These themes form the cornerstone of successful digital transformation initiatives, addressing most encountered challenges and promising opportunities faced by enterprises. Each organization is unique, with its own…
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Why Platform Engineering is Crucial for Modern Businesses and IT Leaders
In an era where digital transformation dictates market leadership, Platform Engineering emerges as a pivotal philosophy and set of capabilities that business and IT leaders cannot afford to overlook. This approach is not just about technology; it’s about enabling organizations to innovate rapidly, deliver software efficiently, and ensure resilience and security in an ever-changing digital…
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Engineering Culture: Leveraging Cloud, DevOps, and Data for Business Success
Organizations must be agile and adaptable to survive. The key to survival is leveraging technology to gain a competitive advantage. Cloud, DevOps, and Data are essential tools that organizations can use to thrive. However, keeping up with new services and understanding their significance for your business can be challenging. This article provides an introduction to…
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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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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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Why You Should Improve the Flow of Work
The most important aspect of working with DevOps principles is to improve the flow of work through the organization. In the course of automating, solving problems, increasing deployment frequency, and shortening processes, you need to inevitably remove waste from the service creation and delivery system. As a result of removing waste, you will be able…
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DevOps Delivers, but Requires New Skills – And a Whole New Mindset
DevOps ‘requires multiple teams to work closely with each other, side by side, on a day-to-day basis, to meet the significantly shrunken delivery timelines.’ Just about every organization with a functioning IT department has been attempting to finesse some variation of DevOps into its software delivery flow. When done right, DevOps is powerful stuff, and…
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Kaizen Event and Value Stream Mapping as Continuous Improvement Tools
Continuous improvement tools can support the Kaizen or radical change mindset. Kaizen EventA Kaizen event is a structured problem-solving approach that contributes to purposeful continuous improvement within any organization. DMAIC is a problem-solving approach to facilitate continuous improvement, as shown in the following figure. The primary tasks of the various steps of the DMAIC cycle are:…
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Kairos Digital Solutions a DevOps Powerhouse – Powered by DASA
Kairos DS is a fast-growing, visionary, Agile-DevOps Powerhouse and rapidly expanding its footprint accross the globe. Headquartered in Madrid with offices in various geographies Kairos is empowering organizations moving to new digital business models, covering end-to-end services from consulting, coaching, training to software development. All packaged in a hands-on and no nonsense approach. A core…
