Quotes About Organization

In order to be able to know if we are making progress toward our goal, it's essential that everyone in the organization knows the current state of work. There

A firm-wide, shared source code repository is one of the most powerful mechanisms used to integrate local discoveries across the entire organization.

In his book, he states that the value of having a single repository for an entire organization is so powerful it is difficult to even explain.

Patty thinks for a moment, "It's strange. Even though we have so much data on projects, changes, and tickets, we've never organized and linked them all together this way before.

how we design our organization dictates how work is performed, and, therefore, the outcomes we achieve. Throughout

Creating and prioritizing work inside a department is hard. Managing work among departments must be at least ten times more difficult.

We're on the hook for a huge number of projects. So, let's look at what our capacity is.

Kanban boards are an ideal tool to create visibility, and visibility is a key component in properly recognizing and integrating Ops work into all the relevant value streams. When we do this well, we achieve market-oriented outcomes, regardless of how we've drawn our organization charts.

for those organizations that provided a stock ticker symbol, we found that high performers had 50% higher market capitalization growth over three years. They also had higher employee job satisfaction, lower rates of employee burnout, and their employees were 2.2 times more likely to recommend their organization to friends as a great place to work.

Cagan notes that when organizations do not pay their "20% tax," technical debt will increase to the point where an organization inevitably spends all of its cycles paying down technical debt.

Step 2 is to exploit the constraint," he continues. "In other words, make sure that the constraint is not allowed to waste any time. Ever. It should never be waiting on any other resource for anything, and it should always be working on the highest priority commitment the IT Operations organization has made to the rest of the enterprise. Always.

Why Do DevOps? The competitive advantage this capability creates is enormous, enabling faster feature time to market, increased customer satisfaction, market share, employee productivity, and happiness, as well as allowing organizations to win in the marketplace. Why?

As Sensei W. Edwards Deming once observed, 'a bad system will beat a good person every time.

INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF WORK In order to be able to know if we are making progress toward our goal, it's essential that everyone in the organization knows the current state of work. There are many ways to make the current state visible, but what's most important is that the information we display is up to date, and that we constantly revise what we measure to make sure it's helping us understand progress toward our current target conditions.

handing me a Post-it note with all of Dick's contact information. Office location, phone numbers,

Mike Rother observed in Toyota Kata that in the absence of improvements, processes don't stay the same—due to chaos and entropy, processes actually degrade over time.

You probably don't even see when work is committed to your organization. And if you can't see it, you can't manage it—let alone organize it, sequence it, and have any assurance that your resources can complete it.

work in process' or 'inventory

Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. This

I had called Erik briefly to tell him that I had discovered three of the four categories of work: business projects, internal projects, and changes

What got worked on was based on who yelled the loudest or most often, who could engineer the best side deals with the expediters, or who could get the ear of the highest ranking executive.

IT is not just a department. IT is a competency that we need to gain as an entire company.

There's a chain of command: gripes go up, not down.

Furthermore, integrating the objectives of QA and Operations into everyone's daily work reduces firefighting, hardship, and toil, while making people more productive and increasing joy in the work we do. We not only improve outcomes, but our organization is better able to win in the marketplace.