Stephen Walters
@devopsstevew.bsky.social
GitLab 🦊. Value Stream Management champion, thought leader & speaker 📣. Port Vale ⚽️. Sci-fi & fantasy 👾. BTCC 🏁. Chillies 🌶️
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When we wrote Team Topologies in 2019, I never imagined these ideas would reach beyond IT. Healthcare, law, government… the lesson is the same: clarity of intent drives speed and meaningful work.
📗 Grab your copy → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book
📗 Grab your copy → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book
September 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
When we wrote Team Topologies in 2019, I never imagined these ideas would reach beyond IT. Healthcare, law, government… the lesson is the same: clarity of intent drives speed and meaningful work.
📗 Grab your copy → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book
📗 Grab your copy → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book
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Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
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Agility is NOT intuitive. Very soon you hit dependencies, work queues, high cognitive load, and other things that block agility. It's vital to use shared language and mental models, including clear team boundaries that work well for value flow.
➡️ Benchmark your org: confluxhq.com/benchmark
➡️ Benchmark your org: confluxhq.com/benchmark
Benchmark your Organizational Effectiveness and Alignment
Assess your current and near-future approaches and capabilities that shape effectiveness and alignment within your organization or department - in the context of fast flow
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July 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Agility is NOT intuitive. Very soon you hit dependencies, work queues, high cognitive load, and other things that block agility. It's vital to use shared language and mental models, including clear team boundaries that work well for value flow.
➡️ Benchmark your org: confluxhq.com/benchmark
➡️ Benchmark your org: confluxhq.com/benchmark
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Well, looky here! The New Stack were kind enough to publish my article on the importance of product teams over technologies. I'd love to hear what you think! thenewstack.io/accelerating...
Accelerating Developer Velocity With Effective Platform Teams
A look at three key considerations for leaders building strong platform teams.
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June 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Well, looky here! The New Stack were kind enough to publish my article on the importance of product teams over technologies. I'd love to hear what you think! thenewstack.io/accelerating...
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
Men who stop funding into violence against women who have previously been accused of assaults on women…tells you enough about what they think of women, and that includes your sisters, mothers, grandmothers, daughters and granddaughters!
Think on that if you voted for this!
Think on that if you voted for this!
NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.
Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
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March 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Men who stop funding into violence against women who have previously been accused of assaults on women…tells you enough about what they think of women, and that includes your sisters, mothers, grandmothers, daughters and granddaughters!
Think on that if you voted for this!
Think on that if you voted for this!
@philjbowers.bsky.social THE BEN GARRITY EFFECT!!! 🏆
March 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
@philjbowers.bsky.social THE BEN GARRITY EFFECT!!! 🏆
Just what will be the impact of AI in 2025? Well, theres going to be ups, and downs, but expect it to be positive. Read more here
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Software Development Trends: Simplification, Upskilling, Comprehensive AI… | VMblog
Software and how it's developed have changed permanently in the past few years. AI has revolutionized software development, transforming it from a manual…
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March 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Just what will be the impact of AI in 2025? Well, theres going to be ups, and downs, but expect it to be positive. Read more here
www.linkedin.com/posts/vmblog...
www.linkedin.com/posts/vmblog...
@philjbowers.bsky.social I know you like a stat on #PVFC. How about this one
March 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
@philjbowers.bsky.social I know you like a stat on #PVFC. How about this one
February 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In 1930’s Germany, that army of ‘private citizens’ were called Brownshirts!
People would ‘disappear’ without trace
People would ‘disappear’ without trace
February 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In 1930’s Germany, that army of ‘private citizens’ were called Brownshirts!
People would ‘disappear’ without trace
People would ‘disappear’ without trace
As you consider the constraints in your value stream, are you considering all dimensions. Not just the value stream in question, but other dependencies, and also the impacts of change to your org structure over time. Thanks to Steve Pereira for his collaboration.
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Stephen Walters on LinkedIn: Practicalities of the VSRA: The Dependency Mapping Crystal Ball
Part 3 of the blog series, 'Practicalities of the VSRA' is now live, and I am happy to announce collaboration work on this with the esteemed Steve Pereira…
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February 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
As you consider the constraints in your value stream, are you considering all dimensions. Not just the value stream in question, but other dependencies, and also the impacts of change to your org structure over time. Thanks to Steve Pereira for his collaboration.
www.linkedin.com/posts/1steph...
www.linkedin.com/posts/1steph...
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GitLab 17.9 released with GitLab Duo Self-Hosted available in GA,the ability to run multiple GitLab Pages sites with parallel deployments, the option to add project files to Duo Chat in VS Code and Je...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🔐 Fine-grained Job Tokens
⏰ Custom Token Expiration
🛡️ Group Pages Access
🔍 Enhanced Risk Data
🔧 Custom Pipeline Stages for execution policies
Ready to upgrade? Get @gitlab.com 17.9:
👉 about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/02/20/gitlab-17-9-released/
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⏰ Custom Token Expiration
🛡️ Group Pages Access
🔍 Enhanced Risk Data
🔧 Custom Pipeline Stages for execution policies
Ready to upgrade? Get @gitlab.com 17.9:
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🚀 @gitlab.com 17.9 supercharges your DevSecOps with self-hosted AI, enhanced security, and streamlined workflows!
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🤖 GitLab Duo Self-Hosted
🌐 Parallel Pages Deployments
🔄 Automatic Pipeline Cleanup
🧠 Enhanced AI Context in IDEs
📝 Wiki Comments
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February 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🚀 @gitlab.com 17.9 supercharges your DevSecOps with self-hosted AI, enhanced security, and streamlined workflows!
🤖 GitLab Duo Self-Hosted
🌐 Parallel Pages Deployments
🔄 Automatic Pipeline Cleanup
🧠 Enhanced AI Context in IDEs
📝 Wiki Comments
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🤖 GitLab Duo Self-Hosted
🌐 Parallel Pages Deployments
🔄 Automatic Pipeline Cleanup
🧠 Enhanced AI Context in IDEs
📝 Wiki Comments
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Patriotism is seeing the best in your country and celebrating it. It's not seeing the worst in other countries and blaming it.
February 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Patriotism is seeing the best in your country and celebrating it. It's not seeing the worst in other countries and blaming it.
#AI Sprawl is a real danger. Value Stream Management is the only way of ensuring an effective AI strategy
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Stephen Walters on LinkedIn: Overcome AI sprawl with a Value Stream Management approach
The principle purpose of #AI is to remove or overcome constraints in the mundane and repeatable actions we all have to perform in delivering value to the…
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January 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#AI Sprawl is a real danger. Value Stream Management is the only way of ensuring an effective AI strategy
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A Happy New Year and I am happy to announce I’ll be speaking at the University of Staffordshire on 13th January. Registration and attendance is free to this hybrid event.
You can get more details and register at the link below
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You can get more details and register at the link below
www.bcs.org/events-calen...
Hybrid event: The Value Stream Reference Architecture | BCS
Please join us for this free event, which is the first of a short series of events associated with DevOps. Monday 13 January, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
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January 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A Happy New Year and I am happy to announce I’ll be speaking at the University of Staffordshire on 13th January. Registration and attendance is free to this hybrid event.
You can get more details and register at the link below
www.bcs.org/events-calen...
You can get more details and register at the link below
www.bcs.org/events-calen...
Merry Christmas everyone! You were all very good this year which kept me busy for one last shift.
Time for some downtime and see you all in the New Year!
Time for some downtime and see you all in the New Year!
December 25, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Merry Christmas everyone! You were all very good this year which kept me busy for one last shift.
Time for some downtime and see you all in the New Year!
Time for some downtime and see you all in the New Year!
A Value Stream Reference Architecture can ensure you align your Organizational and System Architectures, but you need to ensure a focus on Business Outcomes too. Using Outcome Mapping from Flow Engineering and integrating to your VSRA achieves that. Read here.
vsra-community.org/2024/12/12/p...
vsra-community.org/2024/12/12/p...
Value Stream Reference Architecture and Outcome Mapping
In the first of this series of articles, Practicalities of the VSRA: Are you seeing the whole value stream map?, you will have seen how we used the vsra-fine-flow-report pdfs produced to identify t…
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December 12, 2024 at 5:48 PM
A Value Stream Reference Architecture can ensure you align your Organizational and System Architectures, but you need to ensure a focus on Business Outcomes too. Using Outcome Mapping from Flow Engineering and integrating to your VSRA achieves that. Read here.
vsra-community.org/2024/12/12/p...
vsra-community.org/2024/12/12/p...
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"A Fallacy of Software: If it works, and we don't change anything, it will keep working." - Jessica Kerr
#robustsoftware #intentionalarchitecture
#robustsoftware #intentionalarchitecture
November 27, 2024 at 11:22 AM
"A Fallacy of Software: If it works, and we don't change anything, it will keep working." - Jessica Kerr
#robustsoftware #intentionalarchitecture
#robustsoftware #intentionalarchitecture
I had a great day with partners in Madrid, but for all of the fun, there is an important message for IT Organizations
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Stephen Walters on LinkedIn: #vsra
Sometimes it can seem like just a bit of fun, but this fun had a few important messages in it for the software IT Industry.
1. As part of this we got to in a…
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November 27, 2024 at 11:03 PM
I had a great day with partners in Madrid, but for all of the fun, there is an important message for IT Organizations
www.linkedin.com/posts/1steph...
www.linkedin.com/posts/1steph...
And we’re live in 30 minutes!!! #Flowtopia2024
November 19, 2024 at 8:33 AM
And we’re live in 30 minutes!!! #Flowtopia2024
The current Xodus from Twitter to @bsky.app is a shining example of Value Stream Management…
…it starts with what “The Customer” wants, not what you want them to have!
…it starts with what “The Customer” wants, not what you want them to have!
November 15, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The current Xodus from Twitter to @bsky.app is a shining example of Value Stream Management…
…it starts with what “The Customer” wants, not what you want them to have!
…it starts with what “The Customer” wants, not what you want them to have!