{"id":27500,"date":"2018-09-20T00:17:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T07:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/?p=27500"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:17:51","slug":"devops-and-business-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/devops-and-business-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"DevOps and Business Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ron-vincent-8958145\/\">Ron Vincent<\/a> shares guidance in the application of Lean innovation and business strategy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/04\/threehorizons.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"threehorizons\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/04\/threehorizons_thumb.png\" alt=\"threehorizons\" width=\"244\" height=\"234\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When I engage with customers I often work with developers, business analysts, managers, Operations, etc. and the discussions are invariably about tools whether they are Microsoft\u2019s or Open Source tools. These are great topics and open up conversations around many other topics. However, most folks aren\u2019t really talking about the reason we are trying to use these tools. All too often the tools become the shiny objects in the room which divert us from even more important topics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/devops-business-strategy-ron-vincent\/?published=t\">Read the full post on Ron\u2019s LinkedIn profile here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I engage with customers I often work with developers, business analysts, managers, Operations, etc. and the discussions are invariably about tools whether they are Microsoft\u2019s or Open Source tools. These are great topics and open up conversations around many other topics. However, most folks aren\u2019t really talking about the reason we are trying to use these tools. All too often the tools become the shiny objects in the room which divert us from even more important topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":27501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[21,3],"class_list":["post-27500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","tag-devops","tag-team"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When I engage with customers I often work with developers, business analysts, managers, Operations, etc. and the discussions are invariably about tools whether they are Microsoft\u2019s or Open Source tools. These are great topics and open up conversations around many other topics. However, most folks aren\u2019t really talking about the reason we are trying to use these tools. All too often the tools become the shiny objects in the room which divert us from even more important topics.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}