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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

Eight steps for effective change

In business, the need to change is fairly constant. Businesses that adapt to change effectively are ones that come out on top in the long run and beat their competition. When you have mapped out processes and completed value stream maps, your next task to undertake is to look at how to effectively deliver that change in your organization.

This starts with an eight-step plan for change, the steps of which can be described as follows:

  1. Identifying what can be improved
  2. Presenting a business case to stakeholders
  3. Planning for change
  4. Identifying resources and data for evaluation
  5. Communicating
  6. Evaluating resistance, dependencies, and risk
  7. Celebrating success
  8. Continuously improving

Some of these steps will be familiar to you already, since we have already discussed a few of them, but let's now have a look at them all in detail.

Identifying what will be improved

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