As a leading innovation company with 1600 employees in Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, Singapore, Hong Kong, Portugal, Switzerland and Vietnam, Zühlke has always some ongoing and planned strategic initiatives.
Working at the same company for more than 20 years, continuously developing yourself, and never losing any enthusiasm for innovation? How that works is shown in this fascinating interview with Romano Roth, Chief of DevOps and Partner at Zühlke Group. In this Career Design Interview, Romano explains the role that a growth mindset, curiosity, self-reflection, and the company’s feedback culture play.
Feature toggles are one of those concepts that sound simple on the surface but unlock enormous power in practice. In this DevOps Meetup Zurich session, I team up with Ben Rometsch, founder of Flagsmith, to explain the what, why, and how of feature toggles. We cover the foundational concepts of CI/CD that make feature toggles necessary, the difference between deployment and release, and how modern feature flagging platforms enable progressive rollouts, user segmentation, and A/B testing.
One size fits all? Nothing of the sort! Participatory budgeting calls for a tailored solution, one that can constantly evolve and adapt to the given situation. In this article, we describe how we do it at Zühlke.
The SAFe® for DevOps training is an assessment or a workshop that is ideally suited for teams. Why? Because the focus is on driving the value stream of these teams. Addressing questions, challenges, and any potential obstacles - we can work on the training to provide value to them. We will give them the theory input of what exactly DevOps is.
Learn is the last step of the SAFe for DevOps Health Radar, and in many ways it is the most important one. This is where we make the hard decisions about where to invest, where to stop, and how to continuously improve everything we do. In this video, I walk through what the Learn step involves and why it is the key to building the right thing right.
Measure is the step of the SAFe for DevOps Health Radar where everything comes together. After deploying to production and stabilizing, we now collect qualitative and quantitative information about our epics and features. The goal is to validate our hypotheses and make informed strategic decisions. In this video, I walk through what the Measure step involves and why it is essential for building the right thing.
After we release a new feature to our users, we need to make sure everything runs smoothly. Stabilize is the SAFe DevOps Health Radar activity that focuses on maintaining a high level of business continuity so we can continuously deliver value to our customers. In this video, I walk through what Stabilize involves and why it is essential for a stable, resilient production environment.
Release is one of the final steps in the SAFe for DevOps Health Radar. At this point, the new functionality is already deployed to production and verified. Now it is time to make the new functionality available to a small group of users or to all users. In this video, I walk through what the Release step involves and why it is a crucial business decision.
Together with my colleague Nadine, I presented an updated version of our participatory budgeting approach. We had already shared the first version at a previous event, but since then we made significant changes that we wanted to share. A quick disclaimer: we did not invent participatory budgeting. We built on the materials from the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), so you will find the copyright on the relevant slides. If you want to introduce participatory budgeting in your own organization, we are happy to share our experience and always reference the original SAFe materials.
On February 1, 2002, I started my journey at Zühlke as a junior software engineer. Twenty years later, I am still here. In this post, I want to share what those 20 years looked like, what kept me going, and why I plan to stay for at least another 20.
In this article, I explain what Continuous Deployment is within the SAFe® DevOps Health Radar and why it is essential for delivering value quickly and safely. Please note that everything discussed here is under the license of Scaled Agile, and that the Scaled Agile Framework is a framework to be used as a toolbox. Take out of this toolbox what fits your needs and what solves your problems.
