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DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By : Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria
Book Image

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By: Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria

Overview of this book

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift features many different real-world practices - some people-related, some process-related, some technology-related - to facilitate successful DevOps, and in turn OpenShift, adoption within your organization. It introduces many DevOps concepts and tools to connect culture and practice through a continuous loop of discovery, pivots, and delivery underpinned by a foundation of collaboration and software engineering. Containers and container-centric application lifecycle management are now an industry standard, and OpenShift has a leading position in a flourishing market of enterprise Kubernetes-based product offerings. DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides a roadmap for building empowered product teams within your organization. This guide brings together lean, agile, design thinking, DevOps, culture, facilitation, and hands-on technical enablement all in one book. Through a combination of real-world stories, a practical case study, facilitation guides, and technical implementation details, DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides tools and techniques to build a DevOps culture within your organization on Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: Practices Make Perfect
6
Section 2: Establishing the Foundation
11
Section 3: Discover It
15
Section 4: Prioritize It
17
Section 5: Deliver It
20
Section 6: Build It, Run It, Own It
24
Section 7: Improve It, Sustain It
27
Index
Appendix B – Additional Learning Resources

How-Now-Wow Prioritization

How-Now-Wow is an idea selection tool that is often combined with Brainstorming, How-Might-We2 (HMW), and Design of Experiments. It compares and plots ideas on a 2x2 matrix by comparing the idea's difficulty to implement with its novelty/originality.

Similar to the Impact and Effort Prioritization Matrix, How-Now-Wow Prioritization is simple, easy to understand, and very visual, and can include the whole team in the process of transparent selection of ideas/hypotheses to work on first.

Figure 11.19: How-Now-Wow Prioritization map

Again, the sources of ideas and hypotheses are all the Discovery practices, such as Event Storming, Impact Mapping, HMW, and Empathy Mapping. When we perform those aforementioned practices, often ideas will emerge for possible improvements or new hypotheses may form.

We can plot each of these on the How-Now-Wow matrix by assessing each item and considering how easy or difficult it is to...