Pretty Agile blog posts about DevOps

Value Stream Management with SAFe Fellow Marc Rix

Em Campbell-Pretty - October 13, 2022

Value Stream Management (VSM) is a leadership and technical discipline that enables the maximum flow of business value through the end-to-end solution delivery life cycle. SAFe enables VSM through its alignment with the five principles of Lean Read more...

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Meetups

Tags: DevOps, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Value Streams

SAFe from the Trenches @ Agile Australia

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 31, 2017

In June, Pretty Agile partnered with Scaled Agile Inc. to sponsor the 9th Agile Australia conference. Included in this sponsorship arrangement was an opportunity to deliver a product demonstration to conference attendees. Given Scaled Agile Inc. Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Australia, Agile Release Train, Agile Transformation, ART Launch, Continuous Improvement, Culture, DevOps, QuickStart, SAFe, SAFe in Government, Scaled Agile Framework, Self Selection

The Magic Carpet Ride- A Business Perspective on DevOps

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 19, 2016

Having problems convincing your stakeholders to try DevOps? Confused about how DevOps can work at scale? Or even just wondering where to start with DevOps? Don’t worry you aren’t the only one! Imagine being the business owner of an Read more...

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Videos

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Automated Deployment, CI/CD, DevOps, EDW Release Train, Leading Change, Lean, LKCE15, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Switch

The Journey of SAFe and Thawing Middle Management

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 23, 2015

While I was at Agile 2015, I had the opportunity to catch up with fellow Aussie +Craig Smith from +InfoQ. We talk about how I came to lead Australia's first Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) implementation and both my Agile 2015 sessions - The Read more...

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Interviews

Tags: Agile 2016, Agile Release Train, Blogs, DevOps, Middle Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework

From Teams to tribes: Creating a one-team culture in DevOps

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 10, 2015

Originally published on Tech Beacon (http://techbeacon.com/teams-tribes-creating-one-team-culture-devops) One of the challenges facing organizations wanting to move toward DevOps is the clash of cultures between dev and ops. In my view, Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Release Train, DevOps, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Culture, Tribes

Video: From Teams to Tribes - Creating a "One Team" Culture

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 06, 2015

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Videos

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Automated Deployment, DevOps, DevOps Enterprise Summit, EDW Release Train, Leadership, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scrum Haka

Switch in Action: Business Change Management Applied to Software Engineering

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 26, 2013

As regular readers of this blog would know, I recently read Chip & Dan Heath's Switch (which I blogged about here). One Saturday evening in July, whilst only a short way though the book, I found myself thinking of the challenges we had rolling out Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Automated Deployment, Change, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, EDW Release Train, Leading Change

My Agile 2013 Experience - Day 6 of 6

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 26, 2013

Friday The closing keynote for Agile 2013 was "Why Everyone Needs DevOps Now: A Fourteen-Year Study Of High Performing IT Organizations " by Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project. This is the second time I have heard Gene give this Read more...

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Conferences

Tags: Agile2013, DevOps

My Agile 2013 Experience - Day 2 of 6

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 20, 2013

Monday I missed Monday morning's keynote to attend the Executive Forum. In hindsight, the Executive Forum was not the best use of my time and hence I decided to spend the remainder of my day checking out sessions from the main Read more...

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Conferences

Tags: Agile Mindset, Agile2013, Design Thinking, DevOps, Empathy, Fixed Mindset, Growth Mindset