Chapter 14
DevOps Isn’t a Team (Except When It Is)
IN THIS CHAPTER
Forming your DevOps teams
Deciding on job titles
Hiring and interviewing for DevOps roles
Forming teams that support your DevOps culture can be one of the trickier parts of your DevOps transformation. If your broader organization continues to encourage silos via misaligned goals and incentives, your team structure won’t matter. You will struggle to get your DevOps approach off the ground.
In this chapter, I focus on how you set your team up for success. There are generally three ways of approaching team structure in a DevOps culture: aligning teams, dedicating teams, and creating cross-functional product teams. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages. This chapter delves into forming teams with DevOps in mind, along with recruiting, interviewing, deciding on job titles, and dealing with problematic employees.
Forming DevOps Teams
DevOps has no ideal organizational structure. Like everything in tech, the “right” answer concerning your company’s structure depends on your unique situation: your current team, your plans for growth, your team’s size, your ...
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