The DevOps Adoption Playbook

Introduction

WHAT’S IN YOUR PLAYBOOK?

In April 2016, the Villanova Wildcats played the North Carolina Tar Heels in the 2016 NCAA Basketball National Championship Game. The game was the greatest ever, and it all came down to one last play, with just 4.7 seconds left on the clock. Joel Berry II hit a three-pointer to tie the game at 74 apiece, and Villanova Coach Jay Wright called his final timeout. In the NCAA, you have to go down the entire length of the court after a timeout. Immediately, Kris Jenkins of Villanova inbounded the ball to point guard Ryan Arcidiacono. Arcidiacono dribbled down the court past Berry, but it was the design of the play on both sides that made for the great ending. UNC played a 1-3-1 man-on-man press to Arcidiacono, to hopefully force a turnover, but if Arcidiacono got past Berry, they had Justin Jackson, Isaiah Hicks, and Brice Johnson, all who could stop the three-point shot. Villanova had designed a play to make sure that Arcidiacono got the ball off the inbound in a position in which he could get past half-court and find someone on the three-point line. Arcidiacono got past Berry, UNC collapsed, and Arcidiacono popped it back to Jenkins on the three-point line to get an almost-uncontested three-pointer to win the championship, and boy did it pay off. #Win!

—By Saransh Sharma (Sharma, 2016)

A Playbook for Adopting DevOps at Scale

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