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Matt K. Parker is the author of a freshly released book A Radical Enterprise. I had a chance to read it and it sums up beautifully where modern-day enterprises should be heading today if they want to keep pace with others in the future. Listen to the conversation where Matt describes 4 basic imperatives that radically collaborative organizations excel at.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #35 - Radical collaboration with Matt K. Parker– Matt recommends: Corporate Rebels, Thích Nhất HạnhText me what you think.

Scott Prugh is CTO at CSG International and one of the people I admire a lot for his perseverance and dedication in making a 35-yo large enterprise embrace modern ways of working. He is an active member of the DevOps community and a member of the DevOps Enterprise Summit conference programming committee. We had a great conversation about their DevOps transformation at CSG. Folks at large enterprise organizations – don’t miss this!Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #34 - DevOps transformation with Scott Prugh- DevOps Portfolio Management slides by Scott Prugh- Scott recommends: Kill it With Fire by Marianne Bellotti,  John Cutler, Melissa Perri- Scott's weekly DevOps DigestText me what you think.

What if you could make decisions in your development teams based on pure data from your developer tools? I had a great conversation with Maxim Wheatley and Hezheng Yin from Merico about developer productivity and how their DevLake tool supports it.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #33 - How sharpening the saw and being the glue make for a better organization- DevLake on GithubText me what you think.

Steve Pereira is helping organizations do better by focusing on value streams. He is a Board Advisor at Value Stream Management Consortium and rumor has it that we can soon expect a book! I talked to Steve about Value Stream Management and Flow Engineering.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #31 - The Revolution in SDLC and Flow Engineering with Steve Pereira- Flow Engineering e-book- A collection of Value stream resources is at your fingertips hereText me what you think.

Heidi Helfand is VP of Engineering Growth at Kin Insurance and the author of Dynamic Reteaming, a book that casts a whole new light on forming and growing teams. In these fast-moving times, changing your team formation effectively is the most sought-after organizational superpower. I talked to Heidi about fundamental reteaming patterns and her experience in growing organizations.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #30 - Dynamic Reteaming with Heidi Helfand.- Book link: Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams 2nd EditionText me what you think.

Nigel Kersten is Field CTO at Puppet and one of the authors of the 2021 State of DevOps Report. I talked to Nigel about the 10th anniversary of the Report, the latest insights, and how come some enterprises are stuck on their DevOps journey. It was also interesting to hear what happens behind the curtains to produce the Report that we all sometimes take for granted. Do. Not. Miss.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #29 - 2021 State of DevOps Report with Nigel Kersten.Text me what you think.

Courtney Kissler is CTO at Zulily, an e-commerce company. She has an impressive career in the retail space as former Vice President of Digital Platform Engineering at Nike, and before that, she helped in building digital platforms at Starbucks and Nordstrom. Don’t miss our conversation – Courtney is describing her recipe for successful collaboration with consulting companies.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #28 - Collaborating with consulting companies with Courtney KisslerDynamic Reteaming by Heidi HelfandText me what you think.

Working in the field of cloud native and DevOps, I get to talk to many interesting people and one of them is Michael Heiß, Cloud Computing Business Leader at ARS. Michael works in the same area of helping enterprise organizations embrace new ways of working. Listen to our conversation on typical challenges that enterprise organizations face and what can they do to “turn the ship around”.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #27 - Transforming enterprise organizations with Michael Heiss.Text me what you think.

Although taken a year ago, this is still one of my favorite interviews. Not to mention it was my first non-written interview – hence the confusion and a questionable mic quality – but talking to Tanya was great!Tanya Janca is a super kind person bringing a security focus to DevOps movement. After working for the government and Microsoft, Tanya is now focused on consulting and education. I talked with Tanya about security in the cloud and how does one go about making teams more sensible to security issues.PS. A lot has changed in one year – Tanya’s business evolved and now you can find her at We Hack Purple.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #26 - Product Management and application security with Tanya Janca.Text me what you think.

Brian Muskoff is the Director of Product Management for HCL Software DevOps. As a Peter-Drucker-nerd (hey, those are his words! :-), he has extensive experience in supporting teams and building tools that support DevOps culture. Listen to our conversation and find out why Value Stream Management should be on your radar and what can you expect if you’re starting with it. We even touched upon AI in the software delivery process – will we ever control software delivery as we’re controlling manufacturing processes?Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #25 - Value Stream Management with Brian Muskoff.Value Stream Management Consortium website.HCL Accelerate Value Stream Management platform.Text me what you think.