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DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective
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DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective

by Len Bass, Ingo Weber, Liming Zhu
May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
10h 29m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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10. Business Considerations

If you want to make God really laugh, show him your Business Plan.

—Barry Gibbons

10.1 Introduction

This chapter discusses the management perspective on DevOps. As such, it is oriented toward organizations with defined processes. If you are in a startup, your management structure is going to be sparse, with low levels of bureaucracy. As your organization grows, the structure changes in all but the rarest of cases.

Introducing a substantial new technology in an established enterprise is typically both a bottom-up and a top-down process. Only the simplest technological changes, those that impact only a single team, can be introduced without buy-in from management, and no technological change can be introduced without ...

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