Agile IT structure
Often I’m being asked by candidates about our IT structure and how our IT teams are communicating one with each other. That’s my favorite question mainly because of the candidate facial expression to...
View ArticleHackathon decreases development time by 20%
We had two simple goals for our first Hackathon: We wanted to fix IT perception and to increase collaboration between different IT groups within Friedkin’s companies. We hoped to change perception by...
View ArticleNew Employee On-boarding the litmus paper to test your IT efficiency
We are all familiar with the well known urban tale about the successful CEO, which started his long career as a young intern replying “The restroom” to the seasoned CEO question “What do you want to...
View ArticleWhere is your IT organization on the scale between chaos and structured?
Implementing DevOps as a culture requires transition from a well-structured to an unstructured IT organization. While implementing DevOps, I’ve learned that people have varying definitions of...
View ArticleThe most common reasons that prevents IT to reach full potential – 8th:...
The most common reasons that prevents IT to reach full potential – 8th: Vendor dependency 1st reason – Do you know your process? 2nd reason – Too manual process! 3rd reason – Decentralize IT 4th reason...
View ArticleThe most common reasons that prevents IT to reach full potential – 9th:...
1st reason – Do you know your process? 2nd reason – Too manual process! 3rd reason – Decentralize IT 4th reason – IT Silos 5th reason – Analysis Paralysis 6th reason – Building single purpose machine...
View ArticleThe most common reasons that prevent IT to reach full potential – 10th: Not...
The most common reasons that prevent IT to reach full potential – 10th: Not leveraging compute, Storage and Networking as commodities 1st reason – Do you know your process? 2nd reason – Too manual...
View ArticleThe most common reasons that prevent IT to reach full potential – 12th: Too...
1st reason – Do you know your process? 2nd reason – Too manual process! 3rd reason – Decentralize IT 4th reason – IT Silos 5th reason – Analysis Paralysis 6th reason – Building single purpose machine...
View ArticleThe most common reasons that prevent IT to reach full potential – 13th: Just...
1st reason – Do you know your process? 2nd reason – Too manual process! 3rd reason – Decentralize IT 4th reason – IT Silos 5th reason – Analysis Paralysis 6th reason – Building single purpose machine...
View ArticleChanging the Environment to Change a System: Games for Your Management Practice
After reading Jurgen Appelo‘s Management 3.0 #Workout (an excellent book, by the way), I started to use the suggested games with my management team to discuss, learn, and agree on the right management...
View ArticleAre big platforms still viable for the 21 century?
I believe that creating ecosystems of small separate solutions that specialized in certain business functions and communicate one with each other in one common language (although each system might...
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