Fast Flow or Fast Fluff: Embracing an Eclectic DevOps Coaching Approach
In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations often find themselves struggling with the challenge of timely delivering value to their customers. Despite the longstanding presence of methodologies such as Lean, Agile, and DevOps, the struggle persists, and the gap between business and IT continues to widen.
In this session, we delve into this complex issue, sharing real stories and experiences from the trenches. We explain how practices from Lean, Agile, DevOps, and Team Topologies can be used to address the challenges and goals of software organizations. We will discuss the importance of acknowledging and addressing cognitive load, and how we can shape our organization for better flow.
Take away actionable insights and practical tips from this session, enabling you to drive a more seamless flow within your organization.
Sources and inspiration
Books
- Wiring The Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
- Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond
- Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge
- Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
- Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management: Satisfy Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness
Podcasts
- Wiring the Winning Organization with Gene Kim (0800-DEVOPS)
- ‘Slowify:’ How Winning Organizations Create Fingerspitzengefühl & Einheit with Steven J. Spear (No Way Out)
- Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification | A Conversation with Author Steven J. Spear (Redefining Society)
- Team Topologies - Manuel Pais (> TechLead.Journal())
- Sooner Safer Happier - Jonathan Smart & Simon Rohrer (> TechLead.Journal())
Links
- System 1 and System 2 Thinking
- Westrum’s Organizational Model in Technology Organizations
- The Curious Story Behind The Word “Slowification” from Wiring The Winning Organization
- The Andon Cord
- Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve
- DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
- Cynefin framework
- Dr. Deming’s 14 Points for Management
- Drive out fear to improve psychological safety
- Agile Coaching Growth Wheel
- Liberating Structures