Since the start of the industrial revolution, the ways of working that are commonplace are entrenched in our education system and workplace. The optimisation of specialist silos, as part of a total system of manufacturing has generated significant economic benefit through immense productivity gains.  

The IT Revolution meets Asian food. Using the process of making a home-made curry, I try and explain Agile, DevOps, AI, Machine Learning and Augmented Reality. If you try this, feedback would be welcome!

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them; a desire, a dream, a vision" Muhammad Ali

Dig Deep - Culture plays a huge part in organisational performance as identified in the Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2018. This year, there is added focus on Westrum's Organisational Culture, Climate for Learning and Job Satisfaction. High Performance Business requires High Performance Leadership, High Performance Engineering AND High Performance Culture.

Accelerate State of DevOps have shown a strong correlation with technical practices and organisational performance for the fifth year running. This year, they have found new technical capabilities that differentiate high performance organisations with their low performing peers.

Accelerate State of DevOps 2018 states that Lean Product Management predicates Software Delivery and Operations Performance which predicated Organisational Performance when combined with the right Organisational Culture.

Start by benchmarking the performance of your organisation with the rest of industry... Identify your constraints and then systematically remove the constraint. Follow up with another Benchmark and repeat,

This may sound insane, but I have tried to relate higher performance IT, using the the book Accelerate (Forsgren) and the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report with the Insanity Max Fitness Programme

I started at BAE Systems on Monday 13th July 1998. Fresh-faced, ambitious and ready to take on the world. On Friday 13th July 2008, exactly 20 years later, I left BAE Systems to join DevOpsGroup as a Principal DevOps Consultant...

High Performance Business is predicated by High Performance Leadership, High Performance Culture and High Performance Engineering. This article looks at the importance of High Performance Engineering.

Digital Transformation are two words being used by so many people - But do we really understand what this is? Using the "Iron Man" analogy, I have had a go at explaining...

Do you know that as Superman's powers are destroyed by Kryptonite, DevOps powers are destroyed by Anti-Patterns - read on.