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Thinking Environments

By Mark Schwartz, Jason Cox, Jonathan Snyder, Mark Rendell, Chivas Nambiar, Mustafa Kapadia

Evaluating Organizational Models for DevOps to Accelerate Business and Empower Workers

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While the traditional IT organization is structured into functional silos, DevOps relies on empowered, cross-functional teams.

Is it possible to blend the two approaches and work within the traditional structure? Or do you need to restructure your organization to support DevOps?

This paper discusses ways to approach organization with DevOps in mind.

  • Publication Date October 1, 2016
  • Pages 67

Features

  • Modern Org Design

    This paper shows multiple examples of modern enterprise organization strategies and the pros and cons of each in facilitating DevOps practices and principles.

  • Expert Authors

    This paper is written by experienced practitioners who have led their own successful DevOps transformations within large enterprise organizations.

  • DevOps Goals

    This paper also discusses the goals of DevOps org design, including the characteristics needed to be successful.

  • Leaders at All Levels

    This paper breaks down how to address modern org design principles for individuals at all levels of an organization seeking to help make a change.

About the Resource

While the traditional IT organization is structured into functional silos, DevOps relies on empowered, cross-functional teams.

Is it possible to blend the two approaches and work within the traditional structure? Or do you need to restructure your organization to support DevOps?

This paper discusses ways to approach organization with DevOps in mind.

Mark Schwartz
Jason Cox
Jonathan Snyder
Mark Rendell
Chivas Nambiar
Mustafa Kapadia
Mark Schwartz

Mark Schwartz

Mark Schwartz is an iconoclastic CIO and a playful crafter of ideas, an inveterate purveyor of lucubratory prose. He has been an IT leader in organizations small and large, public, private, and nonprofit. As an Enterprise Strategist for Amazon Web Services, he uses his CIO experience to bring strategies to enterprises or enterprises to strategies, and bring both to the cloud. As the CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, he provoked the federal government into adopting Agile and DevOps practices. He is pretty sure that when he was the CIO of Intrax Cultural Exchange he was the first person ever to use business intelligence and supply chain analytics to place au pairs with the right host families. Mark speaks frequently on innovation, bureaucratic implications of DevOps, and using Agile processes in low-trust environments. With a BS in computer science from Yale, a master’s in philosophy from Yale, and an MBA from Wharton, Mark is either an expert on the business value of IT or else he just thinks about it a lot.

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Jason Cox

Jason Cox

Director, Global SRE @ Disney | Speaker | Co-Author of Investments Unlimited

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Jonathan Snyder

Jonathan Snyder

Service Quality Leader

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Mark Rendell

Mark Rendell

Technology Director

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Chivas Nambiar

Chivas Nambiar

Director at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Mustafa Kapadia

Mustafa Kapadia

Global Head Transformation @ Google | Products & Innovation | echo-point.com

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