Value Stream Mapping (VSM) has re-emerged as the connective tissue that unifies product management, operations and architecture ...

Most organizations that have invested heavily in Agile and DevOps share a puzzling experience. Deployment frequency is up. Teams are busy. Dashboards are green. And yet value still queues. Strategy still takes ...

Flow: Not a buzzword, but a discipline. Those that master it will be the ones that turn transformation ambition into transformation results.  ...

If you asked an airline executive what their biggest expense was just a few decades ago, they would’ve easily answered, “Jet fuel.” These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find an executive in ...

The annual Accelerate State of DevOps 2022 report published today by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team at Google found the percentage of high performers is at a four-year low, with ...

When it comes to accelerating customer value, it’s dangerous to focus only on the development and delivery of a digital product. For many enterprises, most time is invested before a single line ...

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 large IT service provider ...

In organizations trying to achieve agility with stability and quality, silos (of teams, tools, and processes) create major stumbling blocks to managing configuration drift between pre-production and production systems. Breaking down those ...