Sports Analogies or the Lack Thereof

We have named this book The Cloud Adoption Playbook. There are two reasons for this; first, we’re following in the footsteps of our friend and colleague Sanjeev Sharma, who wrote the DevOps Adoption Playbook in 2017. This book can be considered a companion volume to that book, as the two are complementary. You don’t need to read Sanjeev’s book to gain from this book but if you do read his book, and we recommend you do, you will learn a lot about many of the same subjects from a different perspective.

But the second reason is that we call this a playbook for the same reason that Sanjeev called his book a playbook. We’re both drawing from the sports analogy where a playbook (in either basketball or American football) is the book that contains the plans and actions that a team carries out during a game.

Unlike Sanjeev’s book, we’re going to go super-light on the sports analogies; in fact, you’ll not find...