In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, organizations are constantly undergoing transformations to stay competitive. However, amid these changes, many companies overlook a crucial aspect: the continuous (re)recruitment of talent. Dr. André Martin, in his book Wrong Fit, Right Fit, emphasizes the importance of aligning talent with the company’s purpose, values, and ways of working to ensure long-term success. The Importance of Cultural Immersion Dr. Martin argues that simply onboarding new employees is not enough. Companies must go beyond orientation and invest in cultural i ..read more

Holy cow, Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit Europe Virtual is happening next week, and I’m super excited about the programming that we have planned. We have a lot of exciting new experience reports lined up and a bunch of subject matter experts joining us, many of whom you can learn more about below! An Architect’s Agile Journey: Insights and Lessons from Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics Division Luca Ingianni — Consultant, Trainer, Engineer Tom Baker — Robot Behavior Software Architect, Medtronic One of the things that excited me so much about this presentation is how they experi ..read more

This post has been adapted from the book Industrial DevOps by Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman. As organizations transition into the digital era, they need to shift their ways of working to deliver value to customers faster. Industrial DevOps provides a framework to enable this transformation for organizations building large, complex cyber-physical systems. This post outlines the key components of an Industrial DevOps framework and actions leaders can take to put it into practice. The Industrial DevOps Framework The Industrial DevOps framework brings together principles and organizational e ..read more

Welcome to the tenth installment of IT Revolution’s series based on the book Investments Unlimited: A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age, written by Helen Beal, Bill Bensing, Jason Cox, Michael Edenzon, Tapabrata Pal, Caleb Queern, John Rzeszotarski, Andres Vega, and John Willis. In our last installment, supply chain woes threatened to derail everything. Now, can Michelle finally shift focus back to her critical MRIA modernization mission? Hold-ups and headaches have dogged her band of pioneering engineers, who failed to meet specifications at every ..read more

The journey toward organizational excellence demands commitment to value, clarity, and flow. This requires establishing a clear target, aligning stakeholders, and optimizing workflow. In my two decades of experience with value stream mapping, I’ve seen countless examples of the impact this practice can have in empowering organizational change. I wrote Value Stream Mapping in 2013, and the practice continues to grow in popularity every year. Despite its recognized value, a gap exists between value stream mapping as an aspiration and real-world implementation. This book targets that gap, offerin ..read more

Welcome to the ninth installment of IT Revolution’s series based on the book Investments Unlimited: A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age, written by Helen Beal, Bill Bensing, Jason Cox, Michael Edenzon, Tapabrata Pal, Caleb Queern, John Rzeszotarski, Andres Vega, and John Willis. In our last installment, complications mounted. Now, with the regulatory reckoning nearing and prototypes piled high, a supply chain cyberattack pulls Michelle’s engineers off-track again! In crisis talks, auditor Lucy prompts provocative ideas around “dependency” risks, bu ..read more

In a recent talk at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2023, industry veterans Steven Fishman and Matt McClarty shared insights from their upcoming book on how leading companies are finding “digital treasure” through what they call the “science of happy accidents.”  Fisherman and McClarty argue that in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, the most valuable opportunities are often ones we can’t predict or don’t even know about yet. Rather than tightly planning and trying to predict the future, successful companies take an experimental approach that allows them to stumble upon digital treasure ..read more

It happened to us, and we bet it’s happened to you too—you watch a TV show or movie and think about how what you’re watching is similar to what you do for a living. For you, it could be The Office, The Wolf of Wall Street, or Succession. For us, it was Ted Lasso on Apple TV+. For those of you not familiar with the Emmy-winning TV show, Ted Lasso is about a US college football coach hired to coach an English football team, AFC Richmond. To clarify, in the US we call it soccer and in England it’s called football. We’re both Agile coaches for Lockheed Martin, and the similarities between the show ..read more

Welcome to the eighth installment of IT Revolution’s series based on the book Investments Unlimited: A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age, written by Helen Beal, Bill Bensing, Jason Cox, Michael Edenzon, Tapabrata Pal, Caleb Queern, John Rzeszotarski, Andres Vega, and John Willis. In our last installment, the team was making headway on shifting left with security. But now, a disastrous data center outage sidetracks our team just as vision crystallization beckoned! Persnickety higher-ups now clamor louder for outside saviors while Michelle fights to ..read more

Welcome to the seventh installment of IT Revolution’s series based on the book Investments Unlimited: A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age, written by Helen Beal, Bill Bensing, Jason Cox, Michael Edenzon, Tapabrata Pal, Caleb Queern, John Rzeszotarski, Andres Vega, and John Willis. The last installment brought heavy executive heat as hand-wringing honchos warned outside aids may “rescue” the flailing Turbo Eureka system! But Michelle’s mavericks rally behind an ingenious badge prototype! Can they demo compliance evidence creatively before meddling m ..read more