Achieving DevOps: A Novel About Delivering the Best of Agile, DevOps, and Microservices

© Dave Harrison and Knox Lively 2019

Dave Harrison and Knox LivelyAchieving DevOpshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4388-6_6

6. Numbers Lead the Way

Dave Harrison¹  and Knox Lively²

(1)

Madras, OR, USA

(2)

Montclair, NJ, USA

 

With spring giving way to the full heat of summer, Ben is feeling his oats. He’s made several big bets – such as promising Tabrez that he can deliver releases to production in half the time they were formerly, in only 38 days! What gives him confidence that he can deliver on this promise?

Perhaps, knowing how bad things were when they started, he’s now more comfortable with their capacity to absorb change. Barely under a year ago, they were stuck in the mud. Technical debt was piling up unseen, and his business partners were outraged ...