Nicolas Challan's Goodbye

• Creation of a ‘tip of the spear’ group to demonstrate, tools, talent, and techniques of the future: "a small group of people can turn the largest ship in the world through grit, wit and hard work"
• Tools/Techniques/Practices- Modern DevSecOps, (community of practices)Open-source, Zero Trust, Cloud Native
• Importance of Work life balance: "missing a lot of milestones and time with children.. they are not waiting for me to grow up"
• Talent: " stop staffing Enterprise IT teams as if IT is not a highly technical skill and expertise …. IT is a highly skilled and trained job; Staff it as such. "
• Don’t time starve your leaders to the point they start becoming ‘technology stale’ : "So much distraction trying to push the laggards, I have stopped learning and engaging in innovations". We need to leave the campsite better than we found it. For our team, leaders and ourselves.
• Sr Leaders (and the org in whole) must walk-the-walk of these transformations with support, action and funding (put gas on your initiatives, and stop riding the brakes) "It is clear …our leaders are not aligned with our vision.. pursuing agility, DeveSecOps, CD, nor in funding them"
• Difficulty in merging the Tip-of-the-spear techniques horizontally across the org "failed at convincing teams to merge work, or it was so painful that it was designed to fail from day 1 and then used as an excuse not to try again"