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Guidance Papers
When Coding Is Free, Where Is the Bottleneck?
Timothy Cochran, Bryan Finster, Tim Ottersburg, Scott Prugh, Amy Willard
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When Agents Decide
Adrian Cockcroft, Jeremy Eder, Joseph Enochs, Jenn Spykerman, Brian Wald
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The Sociotechnical Architecture of AI-Enabled Enterprises
Ian Eslick, Collin Fox, Amanda Graham, Suzette Johnson, Chuck Lafferty, Tom Kilcommons, Rosalind Radcliffe, Cat Swetel, Annie Vella, Sam Yeats, Robin Yeman
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Raising Seniors
Kent Beck, Jondavid Black, Cornelia Davis, Shawn Minto, Dan Neff, Ezra Savard, Adam Zimman
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Deliberate Compliance
Clare Hawthorne, Ben Grinnell, James Nugent, Dustin Warner
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AI-Driven Organizational Value
Rodo Abad, Jason Cox, Jeff Gallimore, Betty Junod, Tapabrata Pal, Brian Scott, Max Reele
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Agentic AI and Code Reviews
Zach Davis, Michelle Gill, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Angie Jones, Sha Ma, Randy Shoup, James Wickett
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Triangulating for Truthiness
Jonathan Snyder
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The Macro and Micro of Helping Humans Through Rapid AI Advancement
Melissa M. Reeve, Christine Hudson, Brian Scott
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Beyond the IDE
Bill Bensing, Damon Edwards
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AI Agents in Action
Suzette Johnson, Robin Yeman
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Signals and Levers
Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi
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Unclogging the Drain
Christina Yakomin, Robbie Daitzman
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Revenge of QA
Elisabeth Hendrickson, Jeffrey Fredrick, John Willis, Kamran Kazempour, Joseph Enochs
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No Vibe Coding When I'm On Call!
Cornelia Davis, Nathen Harvey, Gene Kim, Matt Ring, and Jessie Young
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Lessons from Enterprise GenAI Adoption Journeys
Adam Zimman, Brian Scott, Jason Clinton, Jason Cox, Jeff Gallimore
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Leading the Human-AI Revolution
Suzette Johnson, Robin Yeman, Steve Wilson, Kim Harrison, Christine Hudson
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Lead for the Long Game
Amy Willard, Chris Blackburn, Michelle Gill, Ben Grinnell, Joe Beutler
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Human Vibes
Dr. Matt Beane, Jonathan Hassell, Brendan Hopper, Steve Yegge
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Faster, Cheaper, and Safer
Adrian Cockcroft, Dr. Tapabrata "Topo" Pal, Randy Shoup, Cat Swetel, Mik Kersten, Buck Butler
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Breaking the Sabotage Cycle
Jenn Spykerman
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A Nose for Elevating New Technology Leaders
Kent Beck, Jondavid Black, Alana Henley, Clare Hawthorne, John Paul Herold, Max Reele
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Unbundling and the Public Sector
Stephen Fishman, Matt McLarty
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Revolutionizing Product Management
Gayathri Shriram, Mark Anning
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Practice Makes Culture
Christine Hudson, Ronica Roth
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It's All About Flow
Brian Moore
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Delivering DUFFER
Andrew Biehn, Gene Kim, Luke Burton, Steve Holt, Jay Long, Mike Snyder
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AI and Industrial DevOps Teams
Debbie Brey, Jennifer Fawcett, Dr. Suzette Johnson, and Robin Yeman
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Building High-Performing Teams in Tech
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Flow Engineering Quick Start Guide
Steve Pereira, Andrew Davis
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Systemic Controls for Managing Risk in AI/ML Systems
Dean Leffingwell, Jeff Gallimore, John Rzeszotarski, Michael Edenzon, Peter Ajemba
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Strategic Decision-Making in Cloud Services
Virginia Laurenzano, Steve Pereira, Adrienne Shulman
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Overcoming Transformation Challenges
Leanne Harper, George Kraniotis, Kamran Kazempour, Sam Yeats
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Navigating the New Reality
Dominica Degrandis, Chris Gallivan, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Chuck Lafferty, Matt Ring
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Driving Innovation
Jeffrey Shupack, Harry Koehnemann, Adam Furtado, Bryan Woodruff, Tamara Skye
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DevOps Enablement with GenAI
Jason Cox, Adam Zimman, Adrian Cockcroft, Brian Scott, Christina Yakomin, Jondavid Black, Levi Geinert, Max Reele
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Autonomous AI In The Enterprise
John Willis, Dr. Tapabrata "Topo" Pal, Ben Grinnell, John Rauser, Damon Edwards, Joseph Enochs
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AI-Enabled Digital Twins
Tracy Bannon, Bill Bensing, Debbie Brey, Suzette Johnson, Rosalind Radcliffe, Hasan Yasar, Robin Yeman
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The Digital Mirror
Bill Bensing, Alex Honor
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The Application of Industrial DevOps Using Digital Twins
Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman
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Measuring the Value of Your Internal Developer Platform Investments
Sridhar Kotagiri and Ajay Chankramath
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Happier Leaders
Courtney Kissler, Paul Gaffney
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Enterprise GenAI Delivery Patterns
Damon Edwards, John Willis, John Rauser, Patrick Debois
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A Practical, Step-by-Step Guide to Wiring a Winning Organization from the Middle
Maria Mentzer
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Flow Engineering Bonus Content
Steve Pereira, Andrew Davis
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Wiring for Flow
Steve Pereira, John Rauser
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Accelerating Value Delivery in Highly Complex Domains
Jennifer Fawcett, Kelli Houston, Suzette Johnson, Brian Moore, Robin Yeman
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Organizing for Success: Part 2
Mike Snyder, Paul Puckett, Nate Richardson
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Scaling Automated Governance
Jason Cox, Sean D. Mack, Christina Yakomin, Brian Scott, John Willis, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Rosalind Radcliffe, Bill Bensing, Pat Birkeland, Jeff Kadans
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The Checkbox Project
Kamran Kazempour, Chris Hill, Steve Pereira, Dean Leffingwell, Amy Willard, Gene Kim
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Talking Business
Ron Forrester, Paul Gaffney, Courtney Kissler, Scott Nasello, George Kraniotis, Dave Mangot, Dhruv Parpia, Adrienne Shulman
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Reinventing Software Asset Inventory
Stephen Magill, Michael Edenzon, Rakesh Bantu, Charles Betz
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Measuring Value
Matt Ring, Jeff Gallimore, Betty Junod, Andrew Davis, Dwayne Holmes
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How to Thrive (or Fail) in Building a Learning Culture
Jeffrey Shupack, Harry Koehnemann, Jeffrey Fredrick, Steve Mayner, Thomas Limoncelli
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The Future of Government Operations
Saahil Panikar, Lindy Quick, Saajan Panikar
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Strategic Sourcing for Digital Transformation
Ben Grinnell
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Platform as a Product
Bryan Finster, Justin Thomsen
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Managing the Flow of Value in Service Organizations
Ivan Krnic
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DevOps for SAP
Guilherme Sesterheim
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Responding to Novel Security Vulnerabilities
Randy Shoup, Tapabrata Pal, Michael Nygard, Chris Hill, and Dominica DeGrandis
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Overcoming Barriers to Industrial DevOps
Dr. Suzette Johnson, Robin Yeman, Dr. Harry Koehnemann, Jeffrey Shupack, Hasan Yasar, Ben Grinnell, Deborah Brey, Steve Farley, and Josh Corman
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Organizing for Success
Trent Hone, Gene Kim, Dr. Steve Spear, Col. Brian Beachkofski, LtCol Max Reele, Captain Jay Long, Major Jesse Cooper, Rick Jack, LtCom Andres Otero, LtCol John Schreiner, Col Jeff Worthington
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Measuring Leadership
Adam Zimman, Lee Barnett, Julia Harrison, Tamara Ledbetter, Dean Leffingwell, Christof Leng, Steven Mayner
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Good Consulting
Adrian Cockcroft, Jason Cox, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Courtney Kissler, John Rzeszotarski, Brian Scott, Caleb Wolfe
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The Role of a Platform
Satya Addagarla, Josh Atwell, Mik Kersten, Thomas A. Limoncelli, Sara Mazer, Steve Pereira, Jeff Tyree, and Christina Yakomin
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The Developer Platform
Rosalind Radcliffe, Charles Betz, Betty Junod, Ravi maduposu, Luke Rettig, Mark Imbriaco, Levi Geinert
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Software is Eating the Battlespace
LtCol John Schreiner, JD Black, Col Corey Brunkow, Virginia Laurenzano, Rob Nolen, LCDR Andres Otero, Rick Jack
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Model Life-Cycle Management at Continental Tires
Dubravko Dolic
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How to Misuse & Abuse DORA Metrics
Bryan Finster
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From Milestones to a Continuous Quality Assurance Flow
Peter Fassbinder
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How Google SRE and Developers Collaborate
Christof Leng, Tracy Ferrell, Alex Bligh, Michal Gefen, Betsy Beyer
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Don't Just Survive Your Audit, Thrive In It
Clarissa Lucas
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DevOps for Salesforce and Other Low-Code Platforms
Andrew Davis
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Value Stream Management and Organizing around Value
Saahil Panikar
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Flow Engineering
Steve Pereira, Andrew Davis
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Winning Together
Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert, and Jeffrey Fredrick
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No Application Left Behind
Satya Addagarla, Anderson Tran, Mik Kersten, Rob Juncker, Betty Junod, and Sasha Rosenbaum
Free · Creative Commons
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How to Use GitOps
Chris Hill, Tom Limoncelli, Dr. Gail Murphy, Cornelia Davis, and Dwayne Holmes
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From Project to Product to Problem-Solving
Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, Pat Birkeland, and Paula Thrasher
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Building Industrial DevOps Stickiness
Suzette Johnson, Robin Yeman, Harry Koehnemann, Jeffrey Shupack, Matt Aizcorbe, Adrian Cockcroft, Michael McKay, and Hasan Yasar
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Accelerating Shared Services
Charles Betz, Scott Prugh, Erica Morrison, Scott Nasello, Adam Zimman, Damon Edwards, and Randy Shoup
Free · Creative Commons
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A Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants
Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnell, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif
Free · Creative Commons
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The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub
Eileen Uchitelle
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Low-Context DevOps
Thomas Limoncelli
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Lack of Psychological Safety at Boeing
Jonathan Smart
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An Integrated Approach to Enterprise Improvement
Bryan Finster
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Measuring Software Quality
Cornelia Davis, Stephen Magill, and James Wickett
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Its Time For...ERP Disruption
Pat Birkeland, Adrian Cockcroft, Damon Edwards, Chris Kernaghan, Courtney Kissler, Ron Olshausen, and Jim Sherwin Sr
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Four Frameworks for Portfolio Management
Chris Hill, Ken Kennedy, Mik Kersten, and John Willis
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Evolving the Funding Process
Levi Geinert, Shaun Norris, Charles Betz, and Beth Dumke
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Change in a Successful Organization
Michael Winslow, Adam Zimman, John Esser, Tim Judge, and Tamara Skye
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Bold Moves You Can Make
Amy Walters, Dominica Degrandis, Jeffrey Shupack, Ross Clanton, Ben Grinnell, and Paula Thrasher
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Applied Industrial DevOps 2.0
Suzette Johnson, Harry Koehnemann, Jeffrey Shupack, Dr. Steven J. Spear, Hasan Yasar, Robin Yeman, Eileen Wrubel, and Mik Kersten
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A Framework for Incident Response
Josh Atwell, Jason Cox, Erica Morrison, and Randy Shoup
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Conversational Dojo Kit
Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick
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Conversational Transformation
Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick
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Project to Product Transformation
Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, Pat Birkeland, Mik Kersten, Alan Nance, and Anders Wallgren
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Modernizing IT Operations in the Age of DevOps
Josh Atwell, Jason Cox, Damon Edwards, Mark Imbriaco, and Mark Schwartz
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Getting Started with Dojos
Ross Clanton, Jaclyn Damiano, and John Esser
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Full Stack Teams, Not Engineers
Christian Posta, Cornelia Davis, Dominica Degrandis, and Thomas Limoncelli
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DevOps Automated Governance Reference Architecture
Stephen Magill and John Willis
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Breaking the Change Management Barrier
Chris Hill, Steve Mayner, and Erica Morrison
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Applied Industrial DevOps
Josh Atwell, Ben Grinnell, Suzette Johnson, Harry Koehnemann, and Dean Leffingwell
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Monoliths vs. Microservices is Missing the Point
Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
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War and Peace and IT Glossary
Mark Schwartz
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Napoleon, DevOps, and Delivering Business Value
Mark Schwartz
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Value Stream Canvas Exercise
Dominica DeGrandis, Carmen DeArdo, Mik Kersten
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How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business
Mik Kersten
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Transformational Leadership: A Quick Start Guide
John Esser and Nicole Forsgren
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Overcoming Inefficiencies in Multiple Work Management Systems
Dominica Degrandis, Pat Birkeland, and Keanen Wold
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Moving from Project to Product
Ross Clanton, Mik Kersten, and Alan Nance
Free · Creative Commons
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Industrial DevOps
Suzette Johnson, Diane LaFortune, Dean Leffingwell, Harry Koehnemann, Stephen Magill, Steve Mayner, Avigail Ofer, Anders Wallgren, and Robin Yeman
Free · Creative Commons
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Dear Auditor
Ben Grinnell, James Wickett, and Jennifer Brady
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What Does it Mean to Lead IT
Mark Schwartz
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How to Unmask Capacity Killing WIP
Dominica DeGrandis
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The Key to High Performance
Nicole Forsgren
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Mirco Hering
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How to Transform
Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Gene Kim
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Value Stream Architecture
Mik Kersten and Nanda Kumar
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The Cornerstone for Winning
Alanna Brown, Courtney Kissler, Dominica Degrandis, and Lisa Scheinkopf
Free · Creative Commons
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Making Matrixed Organizations Successful with DevOps
Damon Edwards, Ben Grinnell, Suzette Johnson, and Kaimar Karu
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Individual Contributors
Pauly Comtois, Avigail Ofer, Anders Wallgren, and Chris Hill
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Expanding Pockets of Greatness
Josh Atwell, Jeff Gallimore, and Thomas Limoncelli
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Continual Learning
Paula Thrasher
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Thinking Environments
Mark Schwartz, Jason Cox, Jonathan Snyder, and Mustafa Kapadia
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Tactics for Leading Change
Courtney Kissler, Jeff Gallimore, Nicole Forsgren, Paula Thrasher, Pauly Comtois, and Ross Clanton
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DevOps Case Studies
Paula Thrasher and Thomas Limoncelli
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Tactics for Implementing Test Automation for Legacy Code
Jeff Gallimore, William Hertling, Anders Wallgren, and Jeremy Van Haren
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Mythbusting DevOps in the Enterprise
John Willis and Gene Kim
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Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation
Mirco Hering, Dominica Degrandis, and Nicole Forsgren
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An Unlikely Union: DevOps and Audit
Mustafa Kapadia, Gene Kim, Dave Mangot, and James Wickett
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DevOps Audit Defense Toolkit
IT Revolution
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Open PCI Scoping Toolkit
Dorian Cougias, Phil Cox, Gene Kim, and Ruth Xovox
Free · Creative Commons