DevOps. You think you need it because the market is telling you so, but the market is confused (and self-perpetuating). Agile, continuous delivery, and DevOps all promise the same dream—improved time to market through incremental delivery of quality software. So where should you focus? Max Griffiths begins by distinguishing DevOps from the other approaches and, rather than wrangling new words for old problems, helps refocus how to measure success. How long does it take you to commit and deliver code? Max shows how you can measure this through Value Stream Mapping, a crucial tool used to...
Max Griffiths
ThoughtWorks
Now a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, Max Griffiths started as a shell scripter fulfilling his urge to automate everything. Since then, he’s been eating his way around the world working across multiple business sectors and it’s likely he’s worked at a company just like yours. Although the practice has changed names over time, Max has been working in a DevOps context for thirteen years, writing code and bringing teams closer together to help small, medium, and huge businesses improve their software delivery capability. Wearing many hats over the years has allowed him to talk to different parts of the business, translating business need into technical architecture and prove technical solutions are delivering relevant business value.