The Power of Value Streams – Past Event
Tactec’s Focus on Value with Velocity includes a very powerful tool called value streams. Mapping, managing, and improving your companies value while removing delays (waste)
Pausing to reflect on the topic of this blog, we became paralyzed by nostalgia for a few hours while we reminisced about our educational experiences. Some of us really enjoyed school and others, not so much.
As we reflected on those years, some of us couldn’t remember anything we learned unless it was a class that taught a life skill or a subject we enjoyed.
Tactec’s Focus on Value with Velocity includes a very powerful tool called value streams. Mapping, managing, and improving your companies value while removing delays (waste)
The Agents of Chaos describe Agent #77 as, the most congenial of the agents. He’s an industry expert which makes him the one that the
Welcome to our checklists. They serve as useful companions during Navigating DevOps through waterfall journeys, help jog our memory, and point us in the
Welcome to our checklists. They serve as useful companions during Navigating DevOps through waterfall journeys, help jog our memory, and point us in the right
The Agents of Chaos describe Agent 13 as a quiet, simple, but brilliant thought leader. A very formal person (does not even use contractions) who
A Public Sector DevOps Story A few years ago, several of my clients were engaged with “Agile” & “DevOps” projects with public sector Ministries. Both
Agile + To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of
Back in the days of Microsoft, a crazy idea was used to create self-formed teams, allowing every team member to choose what they wanted to
Lifecycles Delivery Lifecycles what are they and why are they important? We need to be explicit about what we mean by a lifecycle, there is
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Mr. James, Ronald, Maverick holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at The University of Texas, San Antonio.
Mr. Maverick or JR as many call him is a “slick” but warm and friendly character in our upcoming book on the DevOps Mindset. Mr. Maverick cares about his IT team very much and could charm the socks off a Texas Longhorn. JR is liked by many in his organization; however, he is not as well trusted by the Overlords as he used to be. Mr. Maverick has a group of loyal staff, including Mr. Barker a bit of an opposite to JR. Of course, Mr. Barker would never call him JR; he would only call him Mr. Maverick because well, Mr. Maverick is his boss. Mr. Maverick has held many IT positions in the past, including starting as a Sales Professional for HP and IBM mini and mainframe computers. Over the years he has risen through the ranks to hold this senior position by delivering using high-paid consultants and Big name firms. He also received his promotion from outsourcing to a foreign country where he was able to reduce his IT spend significantly. Recently he has discovered (actually this was made painfully aware to him by the Overlords) that both the Offshore roadmap and use of external consultants was not giving him the value and velocity for his IT department, and he was probably paying more than he bargained for
So, after hearing a talk at a DevOps event by the Agents of Chaos, JR decided to enlist them to help with their digital transformation roadmap and help improve the value, focus and velocity of his department. However, MR. Maverick has a few ideas about agile and DevOps, something he has heard about for a while and read in various CIO magazines; he thinks of these as Marketing terms and something that can be bought. While Mr. Maverick has held on for many years to traditional IT ways of working he has come to the end of his tenure if he doesn’t do something fast and get DevOps working quickly as he has promised to the Overlords providing him with a little more rope to get the transformation completed more quickly as they view his IT department ageing, procrastinators who are not able to keep up with business demands. JR says in his mind, “I will get it done, they don’t call me Maverick for nothing!“