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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By : Michael Kaufmann
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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By: Michael Kaufmann

Overview of this book

This practical guide to DevOps uses GitHub as the DevOps platform and shows how you can leverage the power of GitHub for collaboration, lean management, and secure and fast software delivery. The chapters provide simple solutions to common problems, thereby helping teams that are already on their DevOps journey to further advance into DevOps and speed up their software delivery performance. From finding the right metrics to measure your success to learning from other teams’ success stories without merely copying what they’ve done, this book has it all in one place. As you advance, you’ll find out how you can leverage the power of GitHub to accelerate your value delivery – by making work visible with GitHub Projects, measuring the right metrics with GitHub Insights, using solid and proven engineering practices with GitHub Actions and Advanced Security, and moving to event-based and loosely coupled software architecture. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have understood what factors influence software delivery performance and how you can measure your capabilities, thus realizing where you stand in your journey and how you can move forward.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1: Lean Management and Collaboration
7
Part 2: Engineering DevOps Practices
14
Part 3: Release with Confidence
19
Part 4: Software Architecture
22
Part 5: Lean Product Management
25
Part 6: GitHub for your Enterprise

Distributed teams

Tech companies that are nearly 100% remote and have their teams distributed across the globe have existed for quite some time. I know a company that has a completely remote hiring process. Every employee gets a budget to invest in their home office or to rent something in a co-working space. The company is distributed across the globe and only comes together once a year to meet in person.

With the pandemic and the rise of remote and hybrid working, more and more companies are starting to see the benefits of having distributed teams, which include the following:

  • You are not restricted to hiring in a certain metropole region and therefore have more talent and more specialists available to hire (war of talents).
  • Hiring in other regions often comes with a cost reduction.
  • If you target multiple markets with your products, it's always beneficial to have team members from these different backgrounds to help understand the customers (diversity).
  • ...