Did we get Digital Transformation wrong?

Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it’s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let’s explore what works and maybe doesn’t work.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats.
• IRS Reaches Milestone on Paper Return Backlog 
• FedNow℠ Service instant payments in July 2023
• Amazon’s API Mandate
• Gartner Bi-Modal IT
• Cloud Adoption will fail with the skills gap (Gartner)
• There is no talent shortage (Andrew Clay Shafer)

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVOPS

• Devs don’t want to do Ops
• Blameless Post-Mortems don’t seem to be common
• Hybrid Cloud didn’t really materialize into real applications 

BUT HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT?

• Do we need more top-down leadership to make it happen?
• Do we need the annoying person to keep everyone on-track? 
• Do we need more mandates declaring old technology dead? 

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