Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices with this non-fiction follow-up to the bestselling The Phoenix Project.
Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices with this non-fiction follow-up to the bestselling The Phoenix Project.
“No matter what industry you are in, or what product or service your organization provides, this way of thinking is paramount and necessary for survival for every business and technology leader."
More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater―whether it’s the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud.
And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day.
Following in the footsteps of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace.
"Today, organizations adopting DevOps principles and practices often deploy changes hundreds or even thousands of times per day. In an age where competitive advantage requires fast time to market and relentless experimentation, organizations that are unable to replicate these outcomes are destined to lose int he marketplace to more nimble competitors."
The effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. High-performing organizations are 2.5x more likely than their peers to exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals.
We introduce the underpinning theory and primer of Lean Manufacturing, as well as the broader principles of the Three Ways—the principles from which all of the observed DevOps behaviors can be derived.
We discuss where to start, who will be involved, and how to protect, organize, and enable your teams.
We sustain the fast flow of work from Dev into Ops without causing chaos and disruption to the production environment and customers.
We shorten and amplify feedback loops, radiating feedback and making information visible to everyone in the value stream.
We continually shorten and amplify our feedback loops, relentlessly creating ever safer systems of work.
This book will be of value to business leaders and stakeholders who are increasingly reliant upon the technology organization for the achievement of their goals.
The authors of The DevOps Handbook dispel the many myths that DevOps won't work in certain situations. Including that DevOps is only for startups, that DevOps replaces Agile, or that DevOps is incompatible with InfoSec and compliance.
Choosing the best value stream for your DevOps transformation deserves careful consideration. Not only does the value stream we choose dictate the difficulty of your transformation, but it also dictates who will be involved in the transformation, how we organize the teams, and how we can best enable those teams and the individuals in them.
Our next step in our DevOps transformation is to gain a sufficient understanding of how value is delivered to the customer, by evaluating what work is performed, by whom, and what steps we can take to improve flow.
How we organize our teams has a powerful effect on the software we produce, as well as our resulting architectural and production outcomes. In order to get fast flow of work from Development into Operations, with high quality and great customer outcomes, we must organize our teams so that Conway’s Law works to our advantage.
When done correctly, Ops can significantly improve the productivity of Dev teams throughout the entire organization, as well as enable better collaboration and organizational outcomes. One way to enable market-oriented outcomes is for Operations to create a set of centralized platforms and tooling services that any Dev team can use to become more productive – such as getting production-like environments, deployment pipelines, automated testing tools, and so forth.
"Our call to action is this: no matter what role you play in your organization, start finding people around you who want to change how work is performed. Show this book to others and create a coalition of like-minded thinkers to break out of the downward spiral."
Jez Humble is co-author of several books on software including Shingo Publication Award winner Accelerate, Jolt Award winner Continuous Delivery, and The DevOps Handbook. He has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents. He works for Google Cloud as a technology advocate and teaches at UC Berkeley.
John Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the DevOps movement. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks, as well as co-author of the The DevOps Handbook and Beyond the Phoenix Project.