1. Enterprise DevOps: An Introduction If you are reading this ebook, we can assume that you are deliver discrete technical artifacts rapidly to production to interested in the process required to roll out a DevOps drive value to your business. initiative across an enterprise. If that is the case, we’ll also assume that you wish to successfully embed DevOps into Nigel Willie, an expert DevOps practitioner, will now wind the DNA of your enterprise and drive a transformation in the clock back over twenty years to his early days in the software delivery. In our view, companies who have made industry: a success of DevOps have recognized it involves cultural change across the organization and not merely the latest in “WhenIstartedwork,therewasasmallteamofussitting a line of initiatives driven from Head Office. together around a bank of desks. We had someone who represented the business, somebody who wrote the screens That said, your management will have objectives and a (albeitold3270greenscreensforbranchstaff),adeveloper, reward structure in place and it is critical you understand anindividualwhowrotethefunctionalspecifications, this if you are to be successful. You could consider someonewhowrotethetechnicaldesignspecificationsand delivering any transformational program as being similar atester.Theindividualwritingthescreenswouldaskthe to sailing into the wind. You can’t head straight to your businessrepresentativetowanderaroundthedeskandcheck destination but must tack. You need to know your ultimate if the green screen looked how they wanted it to look. destination, but you also need to know that which needs to be delivered for your key stakeholders — which may not “B efore any of us knew the correct taxonomy, we exhibited strictly be strategic. severalofthecharacteristicsofAgileandDevOps,albeitwith We should also state that we have a very simple personal noneoftheautomation.Inaddition,theassetswedelivered definition of DevOps and it is focused on outcomes, not were more monolithic and the cadence was far lower than capabilities. Successful DevOps provides the ability to would be acceptable today.” 2.