December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
47 pages
1h
English
Content preview from Collaborating in DevOps Culture
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Chapter 3. Conclusion
More than just a sea change around software development practices, the principles and ideas found in devops touch all parts of an organization and can be used even by large enterprises or government agencies. Collaboration at both individual and team levels is a key element of any devops transformation, but it is just one piece of the foundation.
No matter what the specifics of your organization’s culture or journey might look like, the end goal is not to have some fixed number of deploys per day, to use a specific open source tool, or to do things simply because other organizations have been successful doing them. The end goal is to create and maintain a successful organization that solves a problem for your customers. Take the time to proactively define your goals and the values and ideas that you want to help you get there, regardless of your industry or size. Don’t wait until you find that your implicit values have been defined for you and it feels too late to change them.
Devops is about invitations to be involved in the ongoing change process, gratitude for wins that occur in every team within the organization, and explicit rejection of bullying behaviors. As with a garden, it takes continued feeding, watering, and weeding to nurture the organization toward sustainable growth and business success. And just as buying a bouquet of precut flowers cannot be considered gardening, buying a tool that claims to be a “devops solution” isn’t devops. It is the ...
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