What Every DevOps Leader Needs to Know
summary
Doctoral research correlates specific transformational leadership behaviors with higher success in Agile/DevOps transformations, using a validated leadership survey instrument across enterprises and conferences. Key findings: organizational-change initiatives commonly fail (~70% in classic studies), culture-change succeeds only ~19%, yet teams led with vision, authenticity, individualized development and intellectual stimulation lean into change. A conference-wide survey of DevOps speakers shows consistently high transformational scores. Proposes building practical leader development tools to increase change success.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00The research challenge
- 1:49Failure in transformations
- 5:39The leadership dichotomy
- 8:46Transformational leadership
- 14:01Outcomes and learnability
- 16:58Role of managers in change
- 21:09Closing and call to action
- 24:03Q&A and final remarks
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