Serverless Craic Ep1 DevOps Enterprise Summit 2021

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Dave, Mark and Mike discuss their best bits from the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2021, IT Revolution. They also review their talk on the Serverless Value Flywheel. Overall the talks were practical with participants describing their digital transformation journeys in an open way, revealing the lessons they have learned.
Here are quick links to themes, tools and techniques that the guys covered in their talk on the Value Flywheel and picked up in other talks and discussions:
https://learnwardleymapping.com
https://doctrine.wardleymaps.com
https://medium.com/wardleymaps
https://list.wardleymaps.com
https://github.com/ddd-crew/ddd-starter-modelling-process…
https://amplitude.com/north-star
Our Talk: 'The Serverless Edge, Using Wardley Mapping with the Value Flywheel fro combined Business and Technology Evolution'
Transcript: https://www.theserverlessedge.com/wardley-mapping-with-the-value-flywheel/
Slides: (including ours under Dave Anderson): https://github.com/devopsenterprise/2021-virtual-us
Slack: https://devopsenterprise.slack.com/
New Book announcement https://itrevolution.com/announcing-new-book-from-david-anderson/
Dave and Mark also give a behind the scenes view of their talk: The Serverless Edge, Using Wardley Mapping with the Value Flywheel for combined Business and Technology Evolution which previewed their book due to publish next year with IT Revolution: https://itrevolution.com/announcing-new-book-from-david-anderson/
In their talk they explained what a 'value flywheel' is and they did a live demo of a Wardley Map to show the technique in action.
There are 4 stages of the 'value flywheel':
1. Clarity of Purpose
2. Challenge
3. Next Best Action
4. Long Term Value
The transcript for talk is available on: https://www.theserverlessedge.com/wardley-mapping-with-the-value-flywheel/
Dave and Mark hosted a Lean Coffee on 'Building internal capability, not consultancy dependency', which prompted a good debate. Mike also picked up on themes around value streams and flow efficiency with Mik Kersten from Tasktop - tasktop.com, and similarly with Bank of New Zealand - bnz.co.nz. The guys felt that Wardley Mapping is very complimentary to those themes and is rising in popularity. Mark picked up on an increasing evolution towards product centricity, meaningful work and socio technical practice.
Mike attended a session looking at ubiquitous language tying in with the need for visibility/observability to make decisions in DevOps organisations whic

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