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DevOps Enablement with GenAI

By Jason Cox, Adam Zimman, Adrian Cockcroft, Brian Scott, Christina Yakomin, Jondavid Black, Levi Geinert, Max Reele

Augmenting Skills Through GenAI

This paper, published in the Fall 2024 Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal, explores the transformative potential of generative AI (GenAI) tools in DevOps and software development. The authors examine the benefits, concerns, costs, and best practices for successfully implementing GenAI-powered tools within engineering teams. Drawing from interviews with technology leaders across various industries, the paper identifies patterns, practices, and pitfalls relevant to organizations exploring AI-powered enablement.

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Features

  • Comprehensive Benefits

    GenAI tools can enhance every phase of the DevOps cycle, from planning and creation to deployment and monitoring, offering significant productivity and innovation gains.

  • Adoption Strategy

    Successful implementation of GenAI tools requires addressing concerns about security, data rights, and ethics, as well as providing appropriate training and governance frameworks.

  • Balanced Approach

    Organizations should strike a balance between leveraging AI's strengths and maintaining human oversight to ensure high-quality outcomes and focus on high-value targets.

  • Adaptability Is Key

    Given the rapid evolution of GenAI technologies, organizations should remain flexible, continuously evaluate different tools, and be prepared to adapt their strategies as the technology landscape changes.

About the Resource

This paper, published in the Fall 2024 Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal, explores the transformative potential of generative AI (GenAI) tools in DevOps and software development. The authors examine the benefits, concerns, costs, and best practices for successfully implementing GenAI-powered tools within engineering teams. Drawing from interviews with technology leaders across various industries, the paper identifies patterns, practices, and pitfalls relevant to organizations exploring AI-powered enablement.

The paper covers several key topics, including the benefits of GenAI in software development, employee onboarding and training considerations, addressing adoption concerns such as security and ethics, metrics for measuring success, and operational and governance practices. It also discusses the challenges enterprises face in building and deploying new GenAI-based tools, given the rapidly evolving technology stack. The authors provide insights on how organizations can navigate these challenges and effectively integrate GenAI tools into their DevOps practices to drive efficiency and innovation.

Jason Cox
Adam Zimman
Adrian Cockcroft
Brian Scott
Christina Yakomin
Jondavid Black
Levi Geinert
Max Reele
Jason Cox

Jason Cox

Jason Cox is a champion of DevOps practices, promoting new technologies and better ways of working. His goal is to help businsses and organizations deliver more value, inspiration and experiences to our diverse human family across the globe better, faster, safer, and happier. He currently leads SRE teams at Disney and is the coauthor of the book Investments Unlimited. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their children.

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Adam Zimman

Adam Zimman

Adam Zimman is a VC advisor providing guidance on leadership, platform architecture, product marketing, and GTM strategy. He has over twenty years of experience working in a variety of roles from software engineering to technical sales. He has worked in both enterprise and consumer companies such as VMware, EMC, GitHub, and LaunchDarkly. Zimman is driven by a passion for inclusive leadership and solving problems with technology. His perspective has been shaped by a degree (AB) from Bowdoin College with a dual-focus in physics and visual art, an ongoing adventure as a husband and father, and a childhood career as a fire juggler.

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Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft is the retired leader of the technology world. He joined Amazon in October 2016 as a VP in AWS Marketing focused on building relationships with customers. He keynoted 20 AWS Summits around the world, presented on technical and management topics at many events, and hired the open source community engagement team. Moving to Amazon Worldwide Sustainability in March 2021, he led sustainability marketing for AWS, invested in the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, helped coordinate the rapid growth in sustainability related headcount across AWS, and helped author, launch and promote the Well Architected Pillar for Sustainability. Currently Cockcroft is advising, speaking at conferences and private events, and doing occasional consulting and analyst work.

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Brian Scott

Brian Scott

Brian Scott is a seasoned technologist with over 25 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, and managing technical operations at scale in Cloud & Infrastructure. His career includes impactful roles at MySpace, OpenTable, and The Walt Disney Company. Currently, as a Principal Architect at Adobe, Brian supports engineering teams with technology, cloud, and AI governance and adoption while assisting senior leadership in solving enterprise-wide challenges and breaking down technical barriers.

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Christina Yakomin

Christina Yakomin

Senior Cloud Architect at Vanguard

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Jondavid Black

Jondavid Black

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Levi Geinert

Levi Geinert

Levi is currently SVP, and Head of Engineering Advocacy and Innovation at U.S. Bank, where he is responsible for supporting, and refining the DevOps and software engineering practices, patterns, and tools to better support our Product, Agile, and DevOps ways of working. He has held multiple roles including leading the Developer Experience product engineering and agile teams. He advocates for developers, empowers engineers, and strives to create an environment of psychological safety to create an engineering culture. Prior to the Bank he was a Director of Engineering in the Target Dojo, after transitioning from Principal Engineer and helped to operate the Target Dojo which successfully helped drive Agile, DevOps, and Product adoption across Target.

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Max Reele

Max Reele

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