Maintaining a strong culture
Now that you have spent time building up the culture in your organization, the last thing you want to do is see all that effort go to waste. It's important to maintain the culture you have built up so far, so it continues to foster the good practices you have put in place already. In fact, a survey by DZone (https://dzone.com/articles/top-10-barriers-to-devops) found that 14% of people said culture was a barrier to DevOps adoption.
As with most things, though, the daily running of a team and business can provide a number of threats to how strong you can maintain culture. Some things can even have a negative effect. Some of these might include the following:
- Starters and leavers
- Pushing too hard for success
- Lack of innovation
- Cultural differences
- Lack of buy-in
How can we avoid these roadblocks to our culture? Let's have a look at each of them.
Starters and leavers
In any organization, people leave and people...