IT Revolution

In an era of constant digital transformation, team cognitive load has emerged as the silent productivity killer. Recent research by Dr. Laura Weis and Manuel Pais exposes a critical organizational blind spot: our teams' mental processing capacity. By understanding the intrinsic, extraneous, and germane cognitive loads, leaders can create more sustainable, high-performing work environments that truly support human potential. Read more at the link in comments.

"To manage and optimize the flow of work, we must first see the flow of work. To reason about work effectively, we need to create a simple model that represents this flow." —Flow Engineering by Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis

The First Annual State of Industrial DevOps Report, released by Copia Automation earlier this year, provides compelling evidence for the critical need to adopt Industrial DevOps practices in manufacturing and distribution sectors. Key insights: ▪️ Downtime costs average $4.2 million per hour ▪️ Manufacturing shutdowns due to coding errors average 30 hours and cost $126 million ▪️ 50% of downtime is attributed to industrial code issues ▪️ 78% report ad hoc fixes to industrial code are common ▪️ Teams spend 10 times more hours debugging code than reviewing it ▪️ 97% agree on the benefits of Industrial DevOps, but adoption challenges remain These findings validate the work of Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman, who introduced the concept of Industrial DevOps in 2018. Their book, Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster, published in 2023, now proves to be more relevant than ever. As industries grapple with the challenges of developing increasingly complex and interconnected systems, Industrial DevOps offers a promising path forward. It combines the best practices of software development with the rigorous requirements of hardware engineering, addressing the unique needs of cyber-physical systems. How is your organization approaching these challenges? Are you considering implementing Industrial DevOps practices? What obstacles do you foresee in adoption? #IndustrialDevOps #ManufacturingTechnology #IndustryInnovation #CyberPhysicalSystems https://itrev.io/3zqCreG

Maximizing resource utilization often slows down the very processes you're trying to optimize. To truly enhance efficiency, the focus should be on flow—ensuring work progresses smoothly through the system, even if it means some resources aren't constantly in use. Explore this balancing act further in @ Flow Engineering

If you picked up a copy of one of our recent releases, would you consider leaving a review on Amazon? It really helps get books in front of the readers that need them. Flow Engineering: https://itrev.io/3ZhhL1u Unbundling the Enterprise: https://itrev.io/3McmV8F The Phoenix Project graphic novel volume 1: https://itrev.io/3xJ9v0n

Hi folks, I just posted a sequel to my contentious post from May, The Death of the Junior Developer. Here's the link to the original, in case you missed it: https://lnkd.in/g5PwSXsD The post got a lot of flak, and has always deserved a more nuanced follow-up. I've had lots of time to hear alternate perspectives, and the story is now much richer and clearer. The sequel, hot off the presses, is titled The Death of the Stubborn Developer, and can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gv6nJgwe I've been trying to write this sequel ever since May, and it's been an unbelievably long and difficult journey. I have close to 100 pages of discarded material. The story has always grown like a weed, and has been hard to capture cleanly without bloating into unreadability. But I have finally managed to make it readable in one sitting. Let me know what you think, even if you disagree with it. Especially if you disagree! Oh, and if you happen to see this by EOD Wednesday Dec 11th, and you would like to hear more, consider joining our Virtual Code AI Summit on Thursday the 12th, the first ever of its kind, with some amazing speakers and guests. Registration link: https://lnkd.in/gmtD4TmY

"More moving parts means more things to break"—but that shouldn't stop your transformation. Matt McLarty and Stephen Fishman's latest work shows how to navigate increased complexity while keeping your enterprise agile and resilient. A fresh perspective on balancing risk and innovation. #Innovation #DigitalStrategy #Enterprise https://itrev.io/3zSl06I

Your voice matters in the DevOps Dozen Awards! We're proud to see Flow Engineering among this year's outstanding nominees, each pushing the boundaries of what's possible in DevOps. Take a moment to explore and vote for the works that resonate with you! https://itrev.io/4i2yNsX

📄 “It was an important paper. It was clear there was so much toil and no efficacy in the process. It was theater.” Damon Edwards, John Willis, and Michael Edenzon discuss how they came to grasp the extent of problems of manual software governance and when and why the automated governance movement took off. ✈️ IT Revolution

"Through creating great management systems, leadership creates great value. However, when done poorly, leadership destroys value or, at least, squanders it." —Wiring the Winning Organization by Gene Kim and Steve Spear