The three ways of DevOps comes from the Phoenix Project, a famous book in DevOps circle. This episode covers how to use the three ways to progress in your digital transformation initiatives.   Sources: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-changing-one-habit-quintupled-alcoas-income-2014-4?r=US&IR=T https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592 https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations-ebook/dp/B01M9ASFQ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=316RJMM06NH59&dchild=1&keywords=the+devops+handbook&qid=1600774333&s=books&sprefix=The+devops+h%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C235&sr=1-1 Transcript: My first introduction to the principles behind DevOps came from reading The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. In this seminal book, that blew my mind we follow Bill as he transforms Parts Unlimited through salvaging The Phoenix Project. An IT project that went so wrong, it could almost have been a project in the public sector. Through Bills journey to DevOps, we discover and experience the Three Ways of DevOps. In this episode, I cover the three ways of DevOps and how they can be applied in a Transformation. This is the DevOps Dojo #6, I am Johan Abildskov, join me in the dojo to learn. In the DevOps world, few books have had the impact of The Phoenix Project. If you have not read it yet, it has my whole-hearted recommendation. It is tragically comic in its recognizability and frustratingly true. In it, we experience the three ways of DevOps. The three ways of DevOps are Principles of Flow, principles of feedback and principles of continuous learning.  While each of these areas support each other and has some overlap, we can also use them as a vague roadmap towards DevOps capabilities. The First Way of Flow addresses our ability to execute. The second way of Feedback concerns our ability to build quality in and notice defects early. The Third way of Continuous Learning focuses on pushing our organizations to ever higher peaks through experimentation. The first way of DevOps is called the principles of flow. The first way of DevOps is called the principles of flow. The foundational realization of the first way is that we need to consider the full flow from ideation until we provide value to the customer. This is also a a clash with the chronic conflict of DevOps with siloed Dev and Ops teams. It doesn't matter whether you feel like you did your part or not, as long as we the collective are not providing value to end-users. If you feel you are waiting a lot, try to pick up the adjacent skills so you can help where needed. We also focus on not passing defects on and automating the delivery mechanisms such that we have a quick delivery pipeline. Using Kanban boards or similar to visualize how work flows through our organization can help make the intangible work we do visible. A small action with high leverage is WIP limits. Simply limiting the amount of concurrent tasks that can move through the system at any point in time can have massive impact. Another valuable exercise to do is a Value Stream Map where you look at the flow from aha-moment to ka-ching moment. This can be a learning situation for all involved members as well as the organization around them. Looking at the full end to end flow and having optimized that we can move on to the second way of DevOps.   The second way of DevOps is the Principles of Feedback The first way of DevOps enables us to act on information, so the second way focuses on generating that information through feedback loops, and shortening those feedback loops to be able to act on learning while it is cheapest and has the highest impact. Activities in the Second Way can be shifting left on security by adding vulnerability scans in our pipelines. It can be decomposing our test suites such that we get the most valuable feedback as soon as is possible. We can also invite QA, InfoSec and other specialist competences into our cycles early to help