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In this episode we chat with Jen Thomson - an IDC senior research director with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Jen is a thought leader in the DevOps space and we talk about scaling DevOps across the enterprise, culture inertia, effectively delivering digital innovation, automation 3.0 and much more.

The Acceleration Podcast is a forum to engage with thought leaders & change makers across the industry to share stories of transformation and DevOps best practices.

Acceleration Podcast - Episode 1

Jen leads the Accelerated App Delivery Practice for IDC in Europe and provides insights on the investment strategies and decisions of European enterprises as they transition to modern application architectures. Her research explores the new rules for apps dev and deploy in a digital economy and how this impacts enterprise IT organizational structures, culture, processes, tools, and skill sets.

Jen’s research explores enterprise maturity and strategies towards Enterprise Scale DevOps providing organizations with advice on how to create a game plan for success. Jen is also an active member of the Digital Transformation, and Cognitive AI practices with a special research focus on: DevOps for Digital, Agile business transformation, the role of analytics and AI in DevOps. As IDC's European expert on application development and deployment strategies, Thomson is an experienced public speaker and regularly presents at conferences and IDC partner and end-user events.

Show Notes
-How ”culture” is identified as the weakest link in accelerating enterprise agility
-33% of orgs are going to fail to deliver innovation because they’re going to do it in a copycat fashion
-if you copycat a culture, you’re only taking a print of somebody’s culture in time
-”culture is elastic”
-in Europe, 80% of European orgs that we believe will adopt DevOps by 2021
-only 10% of that 80% is going to accel in terms of accelerated performance and delivery
-Culture inertia is the stumbling block
-Culture has to be pushed from the grassroots up, from the engineering & IT teams, then pushing that out to the rest of the org
-need to be able to operate more as a software company
-need to move from being the consumer of the software to also being the producer of the software
-there are 3 Key Themes playing more importance in the world of DevOps as we move into 2020
1. How do you actually get the process, governance, monitoring and the mgmt right around all those DevOps processes?? (huge investment area in Europe)
2. Technology Investment
3. Transition to the modern application architectures
-biggest thing in 2020 from the DevOps standpoint is Automation 3.0
-moving from Continuous Integration pipelines to the DevOps assembly lines
-we have to continue to knock silos down but have to move past this finger-pointing society we live in to change the culture

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Welcome to the Acceleration Content Series! Today’s tip is around how to use forcing functions to work remote-first.

Here at GitLab, as the world’s largest all-remote company, we feel that leaders should consider key forcing functions to ensure a commitment to remote-first practices.

Forcing Function 1 - Expire your Slack or Teams messages after 90 days

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