Helping you get from where you are, to where you wish you were with regards to the modern IT business
When working with large fortune 500 clients there is always a sense of unnecessary disconnectedness. Perhaps it is my awareness of the potential that causes me the most pain but it drives me to share and to bring everything I have to real-world help. In the past I had to build, and construction the building of many supplemental systems to fully engage the largest community and stand up what I now call Communities as a Service layers in the organization. Today, companies that leverage products such as Microsoft Teams allow us to move past making it "possible" and right into making it happen.
A Dojo; The place of the way, or the place to find your way. This approach applied to helping improve the IT delivery organization or the Agile Dojo is an immersive 6 week co-located full-team experience. We open by visiting our product model and product community as well as our technical model and technical community. In this critical moment we can help grow truly cross functional teams that have an ability to deliver in my faster and more controlled model as well as helping ensure everyone involved is equally aware and participatory in some of the early questions and decisions. One of the last organizations I helped to stand up Agile Dojos was able to measure improvement in the tens of millions by operating 5 Dojos globally and were looking for even better ways to track, celebrate and continue that growth.
10 years ago when many companies began the migration away from Microsoft paid products in an effort to reduce costs on-shore and connect more seamlessly with new off-shore capabilities it was likely the right call. As it often goes many of the biggest of these companies are only now getting around to put into their budgets the lift it will take to move away. There is no longer the need. The cost-to-benefit of standard office/cloud products has returned to very high and all of the development ALM advantage can be felt on a pure Linux Kernel and built using completely free development environments. The last product I built for an internal client went to market with tens of thousands of potential users, in a full CI/CD pipeline, with automated tests, all built using VSCode, NetCore2.3, SignalRCore, AngularCLI build, test and deployed using CentOS7 Linux.
Ed DeCosta is an internationally acclaimed sales and executive coach working with the John C. Maxwell Team. In this video I had the great honor of introducing him to an audience of almost 2,000 people from over 100 countries. Of course I didn't let the honor get in the way of my ornery. Love ya Ed!
To give ones life in the service of others that they may have cumulatively more success because of it
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The world of work has seen many changes in the last hundred years. So much so that for many, the reference materials just aren't working any longer. If the work your company endeavors to do is uncertain, experimental, prone to changing conditions or likely to encounter many learns along the way such as most IT work does then you may be losing up to 90cents on every dollar you spend based on a few common management practices that were made famous only 20 and 30 years ago.
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If it were so easy as to only build those products and features that customers most want. Then there is no way we would still be faced with a staggering 65% of the products and features we build no one wants. They don't solve the right problem, or in the right way. They don't help the user to feel smart, and powerful and able to accomplish so much more as perhaps the physical tractors or assembly line automation does.
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Cloud native, micro-service architectures, automated deployment/testing/delivery pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Security as Code, Serverless Functions,
Helping others to see more of what is possible in the world, and what is possible for them, usually aimed at improvement in an area such as Software Delivery, or Executive Management.
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To give ones life in the service of others that they may have cumulatively more success because of it is a big deal. It is also a thankless, hard, always shifting deal. Stuck in the middle the air is thin, and both sides often seem at odds. How do you build a best places to work culture while also keeping the executives from running us into a wall or the production line from grinding to a halt?
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Internally organizations can leverage a technique large scale non for profits have used for decades, only the organization can do it a little better. By setting up the digital ponds and pseudo-spaces for like minded/skilled individuals to begin to find one another and become organized and by putting the right collection of tools on the table for them to pull from you can begin to capture an amazing amount of natural upskilling, positive energy, cause for celebration and new places for learning to being to form.
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For all of the work that matters, this is the new recipe for success. For all the other work, do what you will. The Agile Dojo is a fantastic way to help breakup technical departments, force the issues with cross-functional teams and invite the supporting parts of the organization into the room with the developing parts to learn/agree upon a sustainable way of working together that feels good to both sides.
I will always write code, I just will. Being in the top 5 - 10% of my discipline has always been a quietly met goal. As I fall behind, I pickup a new project and get busy learning all over again, it is one of my happy place's.
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It has been one heck of a ride and I appreciate all the opportunities that remain to visit its sorted past. When given the option however, I am enjoying TypeScript/Angular/Material, NetCore, SignalR, Postgres, BDD, CentOS-Apache quite a bit these days.
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Yea, and there will be more 3 letter combinations before were done!
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A product cannot tell you when it is unhappy, or feels overburdened with technical debit, or is uncertain about what it should become next. It is your job to give a voice that honors the investment and maturity of the ideas manifested reality on the screen and in our hands.
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