While the pandemic was significantly challenging for businesses, it exposed the need to quickly adapt and change. Software products for internal or client use continue to provide an opportunity for a competitive edge in nearly any industry. Businesses will immerse themselves and compete in the digital economy by consistently producing better software products at an […]
Value Stream 2021
Why a Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform is Necessary
As a senior DevOps consultant working with large organizations over many years, I have been involved in more than 70 digital transformation projects, with hundreds of applications. While many things have changed over time, one thing has been a consistent source of problems that presents a formidable impedance to these transformations. The diverse number of […]
Don’t Tool Up a Broken Value Stream
A well-known failure mode for business process automation is to automate a broken process. The same goes for tooling up value stream management (VSM). If you have an overly complex value stream – immobilized with dependencies, a clumsy way to move work from ideation to engineering or disagreements over who has power over the plan […]
Predictions 2020: 7 DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 going to bring in DevOps, infrastructure and application automation? Here are seven DevOps predictions for emerging trends in the new year. Customer Experience […]
Digital Transformation: Measuring What Matters
As enterprises strive to digitize their organizations, whether it’s digitally transforming aspects of sales and marketing, customer interactions or supply chain, they’re undergoing a wholesale revamp of traditional businesses into digital business models. While some companies are just getting started, as we covered earlier this month in Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind, the bulk of […]
The 5 Core Principles of Lean Management
Lean project management is rooted in cost-saving manufacturing methodologies. The ultimate goal of lean methodology is to reduce waste. Companies in all industries have adopted lean principles into their own processes, but lean is most suited toward physical manufacturing, engineering and related industries. Regardless of your company’s size or the activities of your organization, lean […]
The Human Touch: The Key to Optimizing Your Software Value Stream Network
Software has no intrinsic value until it’s working in production and supporting a customer’s business initiatives. With that in mind, it’s imperative that organizations focus on how they reduce the time to value, not just time to deploy. And that’s achieved through people. A common misconception is that technology underpins a software delivery value stream. […]
The Role JIRA Plays in Complex Value Stream Networks
No one denies that JIRA has taken over the developer space. The verdict is nearly universal: Most developers want to use JIRA only. That’s fine, but without understanding the role it plays within the context of your entire value stream network, your organization has likely not crafted the most efficient value stream. JIRA plays a […]
Digital Transformation: How DevOps Could Have Revamped Toys R Us
The story you’re about to read and its recommendations are real; they contrast with what you have heard so far about digital transformation and DevOps implementation. Its objective is to convince you about that the time to go digital is now; it’s about transforming your business, not only IT; and to do it you’ll have […]