How do I go about generating enthusiasm about DevOps in my organisation? If your organisation is at the onset of a change movement towards DevOps then these 7 steps may help in this process. 1) Bring your executives on board Winning the support of your leadership team is a change in the right direction. It helps to run a series of education sessions with executives to make them aware of DevOps /its benefits and then emphasise the need for change champions in this process. 2) Find a pain point in your deployment pipeline and do something 'quick' about it i.e. a quick win What do developers or operations personnel speak about the most? e.g. testing takes too long, deployments are too difficult
Culture. I work as an Agile and DevOps coach for a multinational IT consultancy in Melbourne's CBD. As a part of my work in the Agile and DevOps space I see many organisations striving to adapt Agile or DevOps principles into their organisation. Any change of this nature involves organisational change which I tend to address using Lean Change Management principles. The concept of culture always crops up in any Agile or DevOps change. My clients, for the most part, understand that cultural change is needed to take on the best of Agile / DevOps however they don't seem to understand fully what culture really is and what or how we need to change. Culture simply put 'is the way we do things aroun
