What is the calms model

Can you reduce batch sizes? Can you limit your work in process? M easurement: Data is critical to measure progress. What are you measuring and how? How do you determine progress, success, and the need to optimize? What are your goals? S haring: All teams teach each other and feel empowered to contribute. How is information and tribal knowledge captured and shared across teams? Do teams feel comfortable sharing unsuccessful experiences for learning purposes? Lean IT Thirdly, Lean IT — the 5 key principles of Lean are well documented and the Lean IT movement seeks to extend these concepts into the world of Information technology, and software development in particular.

Measurement Fourthly, Measurement. Lead time for change — how long does it take from Code Commit to Production Deployment? Change Frequency — how frequently are you deploying to production? Multiple times per day? Per week? Per month? Inspect and Adapt! Start your journey of self-development with your Personal Kanban , or set up a Portfolio Kanban to visualize your ideal flow of work. No credit card. No contract. No risk. Automation Automate where you can. Lean Lean is our Agile aspect within DevOps.

Sharing Sharing is a large part of how DevOps organizations grow fast. Now What? But as we discussed in our What is DevOps? A generative culture is one in which bridging between teams is encouraged, risks are shared, and failure leads to inquiry, rather than finger-pointing. Working toward these cultural paradigm shifts—and giving them time to take hold through practice—is an important first step. Empowered employees are more open to sharing and receiving feedback, and the more those actions are witnessed, the more others on the team will begin to emulate similar behaviors.

Finally, once the teams are collaborating well, with everyone taking personal responsibility for performance, the continuous improvement piece begins to take care of itself. Every organization will implement these concepts differently.

Cameron Gain. This post was originally published as a Sonatype Guide , a part of our Sonatype Community. The Sonatype Community is a place where you can ask questions to other Nexus users and the Sonatype team.

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