Collaborating in DevOps Culture

Preface

This book is intended for established leaders and those who are on the path to leadership within their organizations. It focuses on effective collaboration—one of the foundational elements of sustainable devops cultures described in our book, Effective DevOps (O’Reilly)—to guide decision makers and influencers through their devops transformations.

In writing this book, we have two goals: to give you an understanding of the foundations of effective collaboration—trust, empathy, and psychological safety—and to show you how to weave these principles into your company culture. Individuals who feel empowered and motivated to adopt the processes, practices, and tools necessary for healthy working relationships can help drive innovation. The efforts you make to promote collaboration within your company and to reward the individuals who embody collaboration principles will result in empowered employees, more productive teams, and a respectful workplace that people want to contribute to and continually improve.

Defining Devops

There is no single definition of “devops.” Most agree that devops involves elements of people, processes, and technology organized in a way to help teams work well together to improve software creation and delivery. Many people think about devops as specific tools like Docker or Kubernetes, but devops is not about tools alone. Neither is it solely about specific practices like continuous deployment (CD) or continuous integration (CI). What makes tools and ...