From being a widely talked about catch-word to becoming mainstream in the technology world, DevOps is now becoming a must-have within service development. Enterprises today are witnessing a rapid adoption of DevOps to accelerate time to market and meeting ever-changing customer needs. In a globally distributed setup, DevOps enables IT Ops and Development folks to work in cross-functional Agile teams, enabling greater efficiency, faster deliveries/ changes, and recovery from failures.

DevOps has been gaining traction across all software teams across organization. Most teams focus on two specific areas:

Determinism is the dark side. Let The Force guide you. When you feel the pull of the dark side to satisfy expectations, reach for your Sonic Screwdriver – and overcome your challenges by introducing classes of service. Class of Service is to the Kanban coach what the Sonic Screwdriver is to Dr. Who – a tool to take on any challenge! Learn how to apply classes of service to achieve large enterprise scale Kanban implementations.

Often, product development teams struggle to tell the story of how we came to the solution we’ve landed upon and delivered. In cloud infrastructure development, we use discovery technique which often involves testing new ideas to see if they solve the problem and bring the expected value we’ve intended to develop. This process often starts with an idea “a” that morphs and transforms into a product/technology “z”. Because of their position, executive leaders often don’t get this story which can lead to frustration and churn.

Discover the possibilities of Agile Marketing and the power of applying Agile outside of IT. Maria Matarelli explores a case study of Agile applied to Marketing and discusses the benefits of aligning your organization’s use of Agile across departments along with the mindset shift necessary.

We often look to our engineering teams first to drive efficiency and speed to deliver but as we optimize the flow of our development processes we quickly create pressure in the organizational workflow with the activities that feed into and out of product delivery. Product definition struggles to keep pace and establish a queue of viable options to pull from. Marketing efforts begin to pile up as features release faster than we can share the news. All of this stems from optimizing only one part of the overall system. In this webinar, we will look at how to scale Kanban practices to the entire organization to provide the visibility, flexibility, and predictability to make every part of the business truly agile.

David looks at seven problems in this webinar which deep Kanban implementations address and which practitioners in shallow proto-Kanban implementations don’t yet address. The webinar provides pragmatic actions you can take to make the paradigm shift to “pull” and leverage the economic benefits that it promises at Enterprise Scale

The purpose of a business organization is to create value for its customers through meaningful work. In a fast-paced world, this proves to be quite a challenge. Organizations need to cope with a fluctuating, fragmented, and often, conflicting demand. This is the source of much frustration and tension (and loss of value).