The DevSecOps Playbook

CHAPTER 7Driving Transformation in Enterprise Environments

INTRODUCTION

More than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 companies from the year 2000 no longer exist.¹ In just two decades, more than half of the top 500 companies have disappeared. In many cases, the reason these companies no longer exist is a failure to transform, a failure to adapt to changing business conditions. The world is transforming, and your business must transform too if you want to continue to succeed. DevSecOps is one of the many transformations that businesses are going through today to meet the business needs of today and tomorrow.

As mentioned in Chapter 1, “Introducing DevSecOps,” when approaching transformation, it is important to start with the “why.” Transformation is hard. It is hard for the organizations, and it is hard for the people going through those transformations. Transformation is difficult because, to transform, you must fundamentally change not only what you are working on but how you work. Changing habits and ways of work—changing the way people work—is one of the most difficult challenges a business can face. If you are going through that difficulty, it is important to understand the underlying reason. By understanding and communicating the “why,” you can help everyone in the organization become part of, and support, that transformation.

One of the primary factors for business transformation is quite simply to deliver better business results. For DevSecOps, this includes delivering secure ...