Chapter 23
Top Ten DevOps Pitfalls
IN THIS CHAPTER
Putting technology over culture
Forgetting to measure
Fearing failure
Implementing DevOps too rigidly
Fostering a DevOps culture and selecting tools to support your DevOps approach will benefit your organization. It galvanizes your engineering team and focuses your product development on your customer.
However, any time you attempt to make a massive change to the undercurrent of your organization, you face challenges and have to deal with setbacks. As you transform to DevOps, you’ll discover unique speed bumps for you and your team to get over. Although I can’t possibly predict every obstacle you’ll face, this chapter can prepare you for the ten most common DevOps pitfalls. Remember that however you approach your DevOps practice, your priorities should remain focused on people, process, and technology — in that order.
Deprioritizing Culture
More than anything else, DevOps is a cultural movement. The culture you build at your organization will make or break your DevOps practice. Your DevOps culture must emphasize collaboration, ...
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