The DevOps Enterprise Journal - Spring 2021

White Papers from the 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summits

In the Spring 2021 issue of the DevOps Enterprise Journal you’ll find an experiential report from Eileen Uchitelle at GitHub, a case study on psychological safety at Boeing, a call for low-context DevOps, and an integrated approach to improving software value delivery.

Since 2014, we’ve been assembling the DevOps Enterprise Summit in the US and UK, a conference for technology leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices. The presentations at these events emphasize the evolving business, technical, and architectural practices, and the methods needed to successfully lead widespread change efforts in large organizations. The goal has always been to give leaders the tools and practices they need to develop and deploy software faster and to win in the marketplace.

Now, as we expand the DevOps Enterprise Journal to two editions a year, we are bringing those same practitioners and thought leaders to share their learnings with you in the following papers, guest edited by Jonathan Smart, author of Sooner Safer Happier, business agility coach and former global business agility lead at Deloitte.

A special thanks goes to our sponsor, LaunchDarkly.

What's inside

  • Clear Guidance — The Spring issue of The DevOps Enterprise Journal collects guidance papers based on presentations from DevOps Enterprise Summits.
  • Expert Authors — The papers in this collection are written by teams of expert leaders, technologists, consultants, and more to provide proven solutions.
  • Business/Technology Alignment — The DevOps Enterprise Journal shares evolving technology and architectural practices for better, safer, happier technologists and enterprises.
  • All Levels — Change Agents can come from anywhere on the org chart. These papers directly address how to lead and implement change no matter your role or title.
Publication Date
Spring2021
Edition
Volume 3, Issue 1
Pages
66
Topics
Audit & Security · DevOps Metrics & Measurements · Leadership · Software Delivery & Architecture · Workplace Culture
Formats
epub · pdf
License
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

In this issue

  1. An Integrated Approach to Enterprise Improvement

    Bryan Finster (Defense Unicorns)

    1
  2. Lack of Psychological Safety at Boeing

    Jonathan Smart (Sooner Safer Happier)

    23
  3. Low-Context DevOps

    Thomas Limoncelli (Stack Overflow)

    33
  4. 45

About the authors

4 authors
Bryan FinsterValue Stream Architect, Defense Unicorns

Bryan Finster is an experienced value stream architect, technical lead, product owner, and passionate advocate for organizational improvement required to optimize the flow of delivery. With over two decades of experience developing enterprise supply chain solutions, he applies lean supply chain thinking to the problem of software delivery to minimize costs and maximize delivered quality. He is a practitioner and mentor of continuous delivery practices and DevOps principles who uses data-driven approaches to optimize the flow of value, improve business outcomes, and improve the lives of software engineers.

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Jonathan SmartCEO & Founder, Sooner Safer Happier
Thomas LimoncelliSRE Manager, Stack Overflow

Thomas Limoncelli is an internationally recognized author, speaker, system administrator, and DevOps advocate. He manages the SRE teams at Stack Overflow, Inc., and previously worked at Google, Bell Labs/Lucent, AT&T, and others. His books include Time Management for System Administrators (O’Reilly), The Practice of System and Network Administration (3rd edition), and The Practice of Cloud System Administration. In 2005, he received the USENIX SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award.

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Eileen UchitelleSenior Staff Engineer at Shopify working on the Ruby open source ecosystem & Rails Core Team