Author Archives: irfan shariff

Improve time to market of digital products and services

Improving Time to Market for Digital Products and Services – DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Check out this enterprise leadership forum event I hosted with a panel of product management experts. We discuss the rapidly evolving field of product management and how you can use agile and DevOps practices to improve the time to marketContinue reading “Improve time to market of digital products and services”

Optimizing your cloud strategy: The Cultural dimension

Check out my webinar on addressing the challenges of the move to the cloud and how to capture the multiple benefits of the cloud. Here is the link to the LinkedIn event. While organizations continue to invest in the cloud, they are not yet experiencing the promised benefits from these investments. Focusing on technology aloneContinue reading “Optimizing your cloud strategy: The Cultural dimension”

Transformational leadership

How to become a transformational leader: Check out the Webinar I hosted on Linked Your leadership style directly affects how people respond to changes in leadership, people, processes, and technology. How you lead determines your organization’s success. When members of the organization are motivated, work autonomously, and feel ownership in an environment with a clearContinue reading “Transformational leadership”

Measuring software delivery performance with DORA

Check out the Webinar I hosted on improving software delivery performance using DORA ( DevOps research assessment) metrics. Measuring Software Delivery Performance With DORA: A LinkedIn Event In the digital age, the capability to develop, deliver and operate software-based products is critical to organizational success. But measuring the organizational capability to build and operate software-basedContinue reading “Measuring software delivery performance with DORA”

From waterfall to scaled agile framework : reasons for making the transition

The defense industry, with its multi-billion dollar projects and contracts and multi-year timelines, has customarily built large cyber-physical products using waterfall project management methods. However, as technology advances rapidly and as the threat space within which these products operate continues to evolve, using the waterfall method to build such products no longer works. An alternativeContinue reading “From waterfall to scaled agile framework : reasons for making the transition”

Insights on using SAFe 5.0 to guide your digital transformation

SAFe 5.0 was a big release of SAFe, and responding to the demands of companies undergoing digital transformation, business agility is front and centre of SAFe 5.0. Dean Lefingwell’s conversation with Mik Kersten on the Project to Product podcast provides helpful insights for folks using SAFe or another scaling framework or even their homegrown frameworkContinue reading “Insights on using SAFe 5.0 to guide your digital transformation”

How to win in the age of software : Ensure you execute your business and technology strategy in unison, with flow metrics.

Based on the work of the economist Dr. Carlota Perez, Mik Kersten describes in his book, Project to Product, how to survive and thrive in the age of digital disruption with the flow framework, what happens to companies as the transition happens from one technological age to the next. Each technological age brings with it a newContinue reading “How to win in the age of software : Ensure you execute your business and technology strategy in unison, with flow metrics.”

Lean-Agile in practice : How to drive innovation at scale

Innovation is hard, scaling innovation is harder still. However, for businesses to compete and win in the age of software and digital, they need to innovate at scale and at speed. They need to bring to market digital products (software products or software enhanced physical products) quickly, learn from them and continually enhance them. InnovationContinue reading “Lean-Agile in practice : How to drive innovation at scale”