Operations

The 4 phases of DevOps maturity at Target

Start by identifying change agents in your organization.

March 9, 2017

This is a highlight from Heather Mickman and Ross Clanton's talk (Re)building an engineering culture: DevOps at Target.

Visit Safari to view the full session from the 2015 O'Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara.

Article image: Astronomical clock (source: Hans via Pixabay).

Heather Mickman

Heather Mickman is the leader for the API and Integration team at Target and a DevOps enthusiast. Throughout her career, Heather has continuously embraced hard technology challenges, from consulting with large Fortune 50 companies on supply chain approach, implementing warehouse automation technologies, running large Ops and support organizations, to establishing enterprise security approaches. She has a passion for technology, building high performing teams, driving a culture of innovation, and having fun along the way. Heather lives in Minnea...

Ross Clanton

Ross Clanton is an accomplished leader with over 16 years of IT experience in the retail industry. Ross is a DevOps enthusiast whose mission is to drive LEAN principles and extensive automation across technology service delivery. He has broad experience in IT operations, engineering, security and compliance, enterprise architecture, business intelligence, and data warehousing. Ross lives in Minneapolis with his wife, daughter, and son.