Here is a video interview I gave summarizing some of the main themes and discussions which came out of the DevOps Summit on May 23rd in London: a shared goal for development and operations; anti-fragility as a way for DevOps and ITIL to complement each other; surface the quality of the software for all to see; tools can produce a step change in behavior for the better; and use the theory of constraints to focus improvements.
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The Business Case for DevOps – DevOps Summit May 2013, London
I chaired the May 2013 DevOps Summit in London, whose theme was Enabling DevOps. I gave a talk on The Business Case for DevOps (blog post), and the slides are on SlideShare:
(Thanks to all those credited on the final slide, and to Unicom for organising the event)
The Business Case for DevOps
[At the Unicom DevOps Summit on 23rd May 2013 in London I gave a talk on The Business Case for DevOps; here is a summary of the talk, along with the slides. Update: now with video too.]
With an increasing number of organisations turning to DevOps to try to improve their software systems, it is becoming necessary to provide the business case for introducing DevOps, especially in organisations which perceive their main focus to be something other than software systems.
For me, building the business case for DevOps has three strands:
- Using appropriate terminology
- Recognising the huge technology shift which has occurred over the last few years
- Emphasising the importance of operability in our software systems
Questions to ask when applying for DevOps jobs
Here are some criteria which should be useful when trying to cut through the tangled mess of “DevOps” job titles in order to work out if a prospective role will actually lead to working within a DevOps culture, or whether you’ll be stuck in an old-school IT silo with a fancy “DevOps” name tag and the same crappy us-and-them mentality.
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Three Org Changes to Encourage DevOps
[#encouragedevops] In the talks and break-out sessions at DevOpsDays London, in conversations at London Continuous Delivery meetup group, in numerous blog posts and articles talking about introducing a DevOps culture (e.g. http://devopsnet.com/, http://www.stephen-smith.co.uk/), and based on my own experience of organisations I have worked within, it is clear there are three key practical steps which an organisation can take in order to encourage a DevOps culture of collaborative, cross-functional, product-focused working which leads to more effective delivery of software-based services.
(I’ll be blogging about each one of these steps over the next few weeks with the tag #encouragedevops)
Matthew Skelton 