DevOps Enterprise Review #3
What Gene Kim is tweeting, DevOps resources, industry news, & more
Hello, DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) Community!
With the third edition of the DevOps Enterprise Review, we want to thank you for taking a journey with us into the world of DevOps and IT in the Enterprise.
As a continuation of our new bi-monthly periodical, our goal is to help keep the community up-to-date on the happenings in, and around, the industry. This edition features new data backed by industry research projects, compelling insights into the evolutionary practices from DevOps, and critical learning resources that cover a broad spectrum of the domains we all care about most. In addition, we’ll recap some recent updates for the next DevOps Enterprise Summit in London happening in late June.
Finally, if there was anything we missed or that you want to call out for the next edition of DevOps Enterprise Review, please feel free to submit your ideas in the comments section with a link to the original resource, for reference.
Now, without further ado, happy reading and we look forward to hearing from you!
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What’s Gene Tweeting?
(Note: all stories sourced from Gene’s Twitter feed, @RealGeneKim)
Huh. A startling 8K+ word article on the ins and outs of MRP (manufacturing resource planning), and how it interfaces with ERP systems, from… Smartsheet. I sense a strange disturbance in the force. cc @CharlesTBetz
Reshared from @Noahpinion — Emotion control is going to be a much bigger and more transformational technology than anyone realizes yet.
Wow. Some fantastic insights!!! Great post from @dataguyme! Cc @CharlesTBetz @botchagalupe ( << John Willis. :) Fascinating observation about hiring. The Toyota manufacturing onboarding almost resembles enlistment in the armed forces. that’s the scale required in manufacturing ops.
This is an incredible post about the rewriting/reimagining of: 1. Netscape rewrite and Mozilla 2. Basecamp Classic, 2 and 3 3. Visual Studio and VS Code 4. Gmail and Inbox 5. Fogbugz and Trello. I’d love to see @mik_kersten rewrite these stories using feature vs. debt units, how it helped/hurt the achievement of desired business outcomes, etc. I think these are all fantastic stories of how businesses chose to invest, and how those investments fared.
DevOps Resources — Learn and Grow, Together
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This post presents an excerpt from a presentation by Dr. Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the University of California (Berkeley,) titled “Understanding Job Burnout.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.
Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation
There is a hunger for better measurements. DevOps teams and professionals want to push new ideas and new ways of doing things. Metrics objectively help teams distinguish between improvements and unproductive changes. Measurements can remove subjectivity, improve excellence, focus on strategy, and create predictability. Measurements work best when they drive crucial conversations and help teams improve. Measurements are undermined when they are driven as an evaluation of performance and impact. People will game the system or distort a metric if it focuses on personal performance rather than team performance. This paper — authored by Mirco Hering, Dominica DeGrandis, and Dr. Nicole Forsgren — summarizes a position on DevOps measurement that intends to be a catalyst for accelerating more mature guidance on measuring and steering software delivery.
For years, we’ve been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn’t matter — that it can’t provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance — and what drives it — using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research.
Industry News — Read All About It!
7 must-have skills for enterprise DevOps practitioners — DevOps recruiting is on the rise, and tech professionals must master these skills to work in the field, according to the DevOps Institute. (Source: Alison DeNisco Rayome, TechRepublic)
DevSecOps steps in for companies that don’t have time to dedicate to security — Intertwining security and software allow companies to find the sweet spot between speed and security. Agile serves as the prelude for DevSecOps as companies embrace more automated solutions. In fact, nearly one-third of developers trained in agile and waterfall practices were not provided security training, according to DevSecOps survey from Sonatpye. (Source: Samantha Ann Schwartz, CIO Dive)
There’s no ops like NoOps: the next evolution of DevOps — Lately, with the rising automation and autonomy of databases, servers, networks, and everything else, there’s been talk of a new mode of software delivery: “NoOps.” That is, new code is pipelined — from developers’ frontal-lobe-to-front-office — quickly and automatically, with minimal need for human intervention. (Source: Joe McKendrick, ZDNet)
Civil servants ‘Sir Humphrey’ their way through grilling on UK.gov’s digital transformation — British civil servants and ministers have been slammed for a “Sir Humphrey”* performance when grilled by MPs on differences in attitudes to tech across government and progress moving off legacy systems.
The Whitehall officials running departments and agencies at the centre of efforts to boost digitisation, along with their political bosses, were recently quizzed by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. The MPs are trying to get to the bottom of the government’s progress towards becoming ‘truly digital’, rather than just sticking a fancy front end on processes that are often manual. (Source: Rebecca Hill, The Register)
A guide to DevOps CI/CD tools — How do you add value to the CI/CD pipeline? (Source: Christina Cardoza, SDTimes)
Full-Time Employment in the Age of Automation — Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” in which he predicted that in a hundred years the 15-hour work week will be commonplace. Keynes made this assertion based on two factors: first, the increase in capital due to extraordinary yields from the compound interest that was made possible by increased foreign (global) investment; second, the growth of technological achievement made necessary by the competitive forces of capitalism and made possible by the availability of excess capital. (Source: Bob Reselman, DevOps.com)
Reminders and Updates— Mark Your Calendars
London 2019 Speakers
We are getting closer to the DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 event and the programming committee is in full “speaker selection mode” and building out the upcoming program for June. The first selected speakers were recently announced here>>> and there are many more to come in the next announcement later this month. Stay tuned!
2019 Early Bird Registration
As mentioned in the second edition of DevOps Enterprise Review, early bird registration is now available until 11 March 2019 for £950 + VAT, a savings of more than 30 percent off the full registration price. These tickets are running out however, so act fast!
2019 Book Publishing Update
We’re always keeping an eye out for books that our awesome community recommends and recently, we saw Charity Majors post a review of a book she’s been reading:
If there’s one book I wish I’d read two years ago it’s this one: “Five Dysfunctions of a Team”. It’s like the laws of thermodynamics for why teams fuck up (or underperform) and how to fix them.
From the IT Revolution Library, there is excitement building for the books being published this year! And, if you’re someone who likes to get advanced copies before they’re released to the public, be sure to join us at the DevOps Enterprise Summit events in London and Las Vegas. In fact, this June you’ll be able to get your hands on a brand new book that won’t be made available until September. (see below!)
Successful teams are fundamental to create successful outcomes for any business, across all industries, to include building and running modern software systems, and successful organizations take care in designing and evolving their team structures. In Team Topologies: Evolving Organization Design for Business and Technology, DevOps consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams
Thank you for reading the third edition of the DevOps Enterprise Review (DOER)! And, don’t be shy — Get Together and Go Faster!
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