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Drawing on decades of meticulous research of high-performing organizations and cross-population surveys of tens of thousands of employees, award-winning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steven J. Spear introduce a groundbreaking new theory of organizational management. Organizations win by using three mechanisms to slowify, simplify, and amplify, which systematically moves problem-solving from high-risk danger zones to low-risk winning zones.| IT Revolution
The bestselling book that introduced the software development world to the theory of DevOps and the Three Ways.| IT Revolution
2 Posts, 384 Following, 320 Followers · Maker, breaker and fixer of software. Adventures in #appsec and #agile: beny23.github.io he/him| Infosec Exchange
As I am sitting on the 16th floor of the Okura Hotel in Amsterdam in my Batman pyjamas and facing a large mirror, just glimpsing the paper crane that was so lovingly put on my pillow, I’m starting to reflect what has happened during the day. I was lucky enough to be a guest at the DevOps Enterprise Summit. There was certainly plenty of things to get excited about. I’d meet Gene Kim, who’s been running this conference for 10 years and who wrote the Phoenix Project.| beny23.github.io
Dave Farley and Allen Holub are two people that I respect hugely when it comes to Software Development. I’ve been following them on twitter for quite a while, and am always taken in about their takes on driving continuous delivery and “lowercase agile” forward. So when both came together for Dave’s Engineering Room (sponsored by Equal Experts, who I work with), it was bound to be very interesting. In this post I try to outline my key takeaways from watching the chat.| beny23.github.io
A few days back as part of a general discussion about interviewing at Equal Experts, we looked at the question “What makes a good developer?” Could we come up with a list of qualities in a developer that we’d want to look for? This post illustrates my thinking. Why do you ask? To put it in a bit of context, I’m a software developer, I’m not a recruiter, but I’ve been involved with technical interviewing for quite a while, and have marked a fair number of take-home tests over the y...| beny23.github.io