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DevOps Adoption Strategies: Principles, Processes, Tools, and Trends

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DevOps Adoption Strategies: Principles, Processes, Tools, and Trends

Overview of this book

DevOps is a set of best practices enabling operations and development teams to work together to produce higher-quality work and, among other things, quicker releases. This book helps you to understand the fundamentals needed to get started with DevOps, and prepares you to start deploying technical tools confidently. You will start by learning the key steps for implementing successful DevOps transformations. The book will help you to understand how aspects of culture, people, and process are all connected, and that without any one of these elements DevOps is unlikely to be successful. As you make progress, you will discover how to measure and quantify the success of DevOps in your organization, along with exploring the pros and cons of the main tooling involved in DevOps. In the concluding chapters, you will learn about the latest trends in DevOps and find out how the tooling changes when you work with these specialties. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have gained a clear understanding of the connection between culture, people, and processes within DevOps, and learned why all three are critically important.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Principles of DevOps and Agile
5
Section 2: Developing and Building a Successful DevOps Culture
8
Section 3: Driving Change and Maturing Your Processes
12
Section 4: Implementing and Deploying DevOps Tools

People effects of process change

People are the beating heart of your organization. Have people on board. Your organizational change will likely have a greater chance of success over one where people are disengaged.

When you go through any organizational change, especially ones that may change the roles and responsibilities of the people involved, it is important to consider the effects of this on the people within your organization, not just those directly affected, but the ones who are indirectly affected as well.

Direct impact

When we talk about direct impact, we mean employees who are directly affected by the changes you are proposing. This includes people whose roles and/or responsibilities will change as a result of your proposal.

Of course, by far the biggest impact you will have comes directly in the form of resistance. We discussed in Chapter 5, Avoiding Cultural Anti-Patterns in DevOps, that the reasons for resistance are as follows:

  • Fear of losing your...