DevOps Is More than Dev and Ops: It’s about Tearing Down Walls
The word DevOps is quickly becoming the new Agile—an overused word that has lost its meaning. Cutting through the jargon, Lee Eason gets to the heart of what DevOps means, where it came from, and why it is crucial for your company to embrace it. If you want to deliver on the promise of agile—to improve quality and reduce time to market—you must understand and implement DevOps. Lee shares three mechanisms of change—enablement, mentoring, and coaching—you can use to drive the transformation, as well as key performance indicators to measure your progress along the way. Learn where the big technical roadblocks lie, why they exist in your company, and how to navigate them successfully. Finally, Lee shares key benefits you can expect with your shift to DevOps—the effect on consumers’ loyalty, developer satisfaction, systems uptime, and software quality.
As the director of DevOps at Ipreo, a provider of financial services technology, data, and analytics, Lee Eason is serious about high-performing teams. Like many IT professionals, he started out writing software. As his career progressed and responsibilities grew, Lee learned that success in software development doesn’t come from taking away the team’s responsibilities for infrastructure, monitoring, and deployment. He learned the importance of giving the team control and accountability in those areas, and that ensuring they are simple and reliable, leads to consistent, repeatable software development and deployment. Read Lee’s articles on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter @LeeJEason.