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Mythbusting DevOps in the Enterprise

By Gary Gruver, John Willis, Gene Kim

Addressing Culture and Leadership Aspects during Transforming

Anyone leading a company through a DevOps transformation will encounter minor to significant internal skepticism or lack concrete experience.

This document lists the most common leadership and cultural traps and provides high-level reassurance and evidence that DevOps practices are generally applicable and plausibly successful in enterprise environments.

  • Publication Date October 1, 2015
  • Pages 27

Features

  • Myths Debunked

    There are many misconceptions about DevOps. This paper takes the top ones and debunks them using real-life examples.

  • Case Studies

    Full of links to case studies from real enterprise organizations including HP, Nordstrum, Ticketmaster, and more.

  • Expert Guidance

    This paper is written by experts in the world of DevOps who have been practicing software engineering and delivery for decades.

  • Transformation

    This paper makes it clear that organizations of any size and history can make the transition to DevOps practices and principles.

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Anyone leading a company through a DevOps transformation will encounter minor to significant internal skepticism or lack concrete experience.

This document lists the most common leadership and cultural traps and provides high-level reassurance and evidence that DevOps practices are generally applicable and plausibly successful in enterprise environments.

Gary Gruver
John Willis
Gene Kim
Gary Gruver

Gary Gruver

Coauthor of Leading the Transformation

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John Willis

John Willis

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years and is a prolific author, including "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" and "The DevOps Handbook." He is researching DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance. Previously he was an Evangelist at Docker Inc., VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell), and VP of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

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Gene Kim

Gene Kim

Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., an enterprise security software company, where he served for 13 years. His books have sold over 1 million copies—he is the WSJ bestselling author of Wiring the Winning Organization, The Unicorn Project, and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate. Since 2014, he has been the organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit (now Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit), studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.

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