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Not Everything That is Necessary Adds Value

Since the Lean production method for manufacturing arose in the 1930s, organizations everywhere have been seeking ways to apply it to reduce waste and increase productivity. This model has served thousands of companies well, from…

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Sep18

Blogs

Does Agile Methodologies Work for IT Infra?

Recently, I had a fascinating conversation with my old friend Joe–the name has been changed but the conversation is real and unedited–an IT Infrastructure program manager from a la…

3 min

Feb20

Blogs

Will ITIL V4 Bring Order to a DevOps World?

It is difficult to dispute the importance that the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) approach has had on the world of ITSM (IT service management). After all, th…

3 min

Jan30

Blogs

Is Your Organization ‘Fit for the Future’?

Takeaways from a recent conference suggest more work is needed in DevOps adoption among organizations This was a question explored by CIO Platform Nederland and the DevOps Agile Sk…

3 min

May25

Blogs

Using CALMS to Assess an Organization’s DevOps

Of the tried-and-tested frameworks that allow enterprises to assess DevOps in their organization and how it can be improved, the CALMS model remains particularly useful. CALMS, whi…

3 min

Dec22

Blogs

What is an Agile IT Organization?

Agile IT is the new sexy. Don’t get me wrong. It has always been around. But with the rise of digital transformation, it has taken on a renewed urgency. For example, Domino’s Pizza…

3 min

Dec05

Blogs

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…

3 min

May16

Blogs

DevOps Chat: Value Stream Mapping with CollabNet’s Eric Robertson

This DevOps Chat features Eric Robertson, VP of product and engineering at CollabNet. We discuss value stream mapping, which comes from Lean methodology and has been around for a w…

3 min

May03

Blogs

SRE vs. DevOps vs. Cloud Native: The Server Cage Match

This post supports my DevOpsDays Austin Presentation on May 4 I don’t believe in DevOps shaming. Our community seems compelled to correct use of DevOps as an adjective for tools, t…

3 min

Mar20

Blogs

Scaled Agile: Faster Feature Cycle Time, Improved Time to Value

Do you remember when the business imperative was improving feature cycle time? As if we just needed to deliver more stuff faster to win in the marketplace. I wouldn’t say that time…

3 min

Jun17

DevOps Institute

MTTR: The Magic Metric

How do you improve with one metric quality, cost, performance, employee and, most importantly, customer satisfaction? I think MTTR is one to consider, but with a DevOps twist (agil…

3 min

Jun03

Blogs

Lean Security: How Better Development Can Protect Your Business

If companies are to reach their strategic goals—reducing time to market, boosting sales, improving product market fit and brand image, and cutting cybersecurity costs—then it’s tim…

3 min

Oct27

Blogs

Lean for DevOps: Measuring the meaningful

At a recent Lean project report out to stakeholders, a piece of analysis was presented which showed the quantity of metrics being captured, in various areas, at different organizat…

3 min

Sep28

Blogs

Lean for DevOps: Is it OK to move the banana?

There is an urban legend about a Lean deployment which, in the process of applying the 5S to a workshop, drew lines on the desk to indicate where each worker should keep their bana…

3 min

Sep15

Blogs

Roll-up your sleeves – Launch a SAFe® Agile Release Train

Most organizations often begin their agile transformation with a series of low risk, stand-alone pilots. While these pilots may prove that teams can adopt small team agile practice…

3 min

Aug27

Blogs

Steer SAFely – So how do you do it?

This is the third blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the previous blogs, we discussed the characteristics of a successful enterprise agile transformation and provided spe…

3 min

Aug11

Blogs

Steer SAFely – Driving collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams

This is the second blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the first blog, Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!, we discussed the characteristic…

3 min

Aug05

Blogs

Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!

Lean and Agile methodologies are nothing new, but in the last few years we have seen the emergence of several frameworks combining elements of both. The IBM DevOps framework is one…

3 min

Aug03

Features

Will DevOps Kill IT Outsourcing?: Part 1

Part 1: DevOps and outsourcing like oil and water After nearly two decades of steady IT outsourcing for the sake of savings and efficiency gains, the shine seems to have worn off f…

3 min

Jul14

Blogs

Lean for DevOps: Mapping the tributaries and deltas of demand

Here at IBM’s Lean practice we use a diagram called ‘Mississippi’ to analyze demand. It is not so-called because it originates in Mississippi – in fact I’ve been given to understan…

3 min

May19

Doin' DevOps

Lean Value Stream Mapping for DevOps

Value Stream Mapping is a crucial step in assessing an organization’s DevOps capability. We create a value stream map of the software development lifecycle early in any DevOps enga…

3 min

Apr09

Doin' DevOps

Why do DevOps? Winning hearts and minds with a Lean boxscore

Change is difficult. It can be painful, disruptive, and costly. Making a case for change requires us to win over hearts and minds. In my experience, we need to win the hearts of th…

3 min

Apr08

Blogs

Think you’ve established Kanban? Why you might only be halfway there

As a Lean Coach working in IT I often hear development teams refer proudly to their scrumboards as an example of Kanban. To which I say, ‘that’s a great start… but it’s really only…

3 min

Jan09

Features

Five essential Ops strategies that help make DevOps the real deal

With its roots in Agile and Lean thinking it’s not surprising that DevOps is often looked at through a development lens. After all, it’s proving absolutely essential to support acc…

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