DevOps for Digital Leaders: Reignite Business with a Modern DevOps-Enabled Software Factory

Abstract

As a software executive who’s worn many hats across sales, services, develop-ment, support, operations, and even IT, I have a fairly unique perspective when I talk to business leaders about their technology strategies. Though the name DevOps didn’t exist until fairly recently, the need for partnership between development and operations teams has always been around. Today DevOps has shifted from an emerging movement to a critical component of most enterprises’ digital transformation strategy. In other words, DevOps is moving from the Kanban board to the board of directors. While the idea behind this kind of collaboration is common sense, there are definitely challenges to driving mainstream adoption for DevOps. In my con-versations with C-suite executives, they invariably ask for two things: docu-mented best practices and actual case studies that they can take to their internal stakeholders. That’s why this book is so relevant right now. It’s more than just theory or a summary of the ideal DevOps toolchain, it’s a set of practical insights and bet-ter practices that came about through many, many interviews and interactions with frontline practitioners about what works and what doesn’t work in the real world.