Learn, Practice and Coach DevOps Culture through Games
Its always good to start the long sessions/workshops with a small game. This bring energy to people. This game can be played with any number of people, more the number and it takes more time. The first known mention of the game was in the book Wuzazu (zh) by the Chinese Ming-dynasty writer Xie Zhaozhi (zh) Game Rule Person can choose anything... Continue Reading →
DevOps is a process of continuous learning and experimentation - John Willis Thriving in uncertain and competitive circumstances involves striving for something, not just waiting, reacting to problems that arise and trying to counteract entropy. However, just communicating a vision and challenge to strive for may not be enough. It takes more than a goal and some positive attitude... Continue Reading →
“DevOps is a cultural and professional movement” – Adam Jacob Below are the core values of DevOps, we will apply these values in this simulation. Simulation Build tallest Pyramid with Cup without touching the cups in hand. Supplies for each team Cups Rubber band Thread Game Rules Identify roles in your team Dev,... Continue Reading →
It takes months, or even years to deliver business values because there are hundreds of operations required to deliver business value. To transmit code through the value stream requires multiple departments to work on a variety of tasks, approvals, business team, PO/BA refining, development, functional testing, integration testing, environment creation, server administration, storage administration, networking,... Continue Reading →
DevOps is an Cultural Change. we need to build high trust within and among teams for faster delivery with high quality. Simulation Without touching pen, using threads we need to write TRUST word on paper. you will be provided with a pen and thread. Identify roles in your team Dev, QA, DD, DBA and Ops.... Continue Reading →
This simulation will prove how small batch release wins over big bang release. Big bang release – In traditional software development, we develop for years and release everything together. This creates a lot of issues like long lead time, skyrocketing levels of WIP (work in progress), long waiting, increasing development cost, low quality and more. Small batch... Continue Reading →
This Simulation is based on the novel "The Phoenix Project". Novel - The Phoenix Project Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company’s new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited. The Project Phoenix was $20 million over budget and three... Continue Reading →
This ice-breaker simulation increases trust and relationship. Trust - is a big aspect, you can’t be successful if you can’t trust other parts of an organization. When we’re surrounded by people who believe what we believe, something remarkable happens… trust emerges. Team members need to build Trust with IT team themselves and some of the other... Continue Reading →
This simulation will prove how small batch release wins over big bang release. Big bang release - In traditional software development, we develop for years and release everything together. This creates a lot of issues like long lead time, skyrocketing levels of WIP (work in progress), long waiting, increasing development cost, low quality and more.... Continue Reading →
In this simulation, we will apply DevOps Values and Culture in building the tallest Paper Tower. DevOps is not a goal, but a never-ending process of Continual Improvement - Gene Kim DevOps Values https://elevate-org.com/2016/12/14/top-10-devops-values/ DevOps 3 ways DevOps enables to Accelerate the flow of work - faster delivery Amplify feedback - fast feedback and feed... Continue Reading →
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