Dev Interrupted takes a detour to Vegas!
As a first for the show, we took the podcast on the road to attend the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.
Gene Kim and the Rise and Fall of DevOps | Conversations From DevOps Enterprise Summit
Best of Gene Kim Collection
This week is the DevOps Enterprise Summit, Gene Kim's popular conference. Despite being in an unpredictable and uncommon year, they've planned a packed and exciting virtual conference. We felt inspired by all the work Gene Kim + team have done on the conference, so we wanted to put together our favorite articles from Gene Kim. Let's take a look.
Understanding the Work In Our Value Stream and Improving Flow
How teams support value streams, what work is required in a value stream map, and how to create a dedicated transformation team.
Author Spotlight: Gene Kim
In our latest in-depth DZone interview, DZone regular Gene Kim speaks on the DevOps Enterprise Summit community and his most recent book The Unicorn Project. This week Gene Kim embarks on his first-ever virtual conference in the DevOps Enterprise Summit - London (which he previewed on DZone).
How would you set up and tell developers about your latest must-read book The Unicorn Project?
I think the Unicorn Project will be of interest to almost every developer just because we all want to be productive and we want to work in a system where it's easy to get done what needs to get done easily, quickly, reliably, and securely.
Book Review: The Unicorn Project
In November 2019, The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim was been released. The book focuses on the development part of The Unicorn Project of Parts Unlimited which was introduced in the well-known book The Phoenix Project. I finally had the time to read it and share some thoughts about it.
Introduction
The Phoenix Project is a standard when we are talking about DevOps books. It is written as a novel and focuses on key DevOps concepts. The protagonist is Bill Palmer, VP of a company called Parts Unlimited. If you have not read The Phoenix Project yet, you should definitely order it now or read one of the previous posts where you can read a book review. The Unicorn Project was already mentioned in The Phoenix Project as a project where the developers could start anew and use best DevOps practices without the struggles of the Phoenix Project. In this new book, Maxine, a female senior software developer, is the protagonist. It is the same company, the same story, but now seen from a development point of view.
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations [Book Review]
The book Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim details the findings of four years of research on how DevOps affects various outcomes, such as software delivery tempo and stability, as well as the organizations' profitability and market share. DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. It is quite clear that DevOps practices bring lots of benefits to organizations adopting them. The research findings are also in line with my own experience of DevOps.
The findings of the research are presented in the first part of the book (a bit more than half of it).