Jan 25, 2019
Today on the Agile Coaches’ Corner, your
host, Dan Neumann invites on Sean Davis to explore the DevOps
movement. Sean is one of Dan’s colleagues at AgileThought and is a
DevOps expert and frequent conference speaker. He has been a
Business Transformation Consultant at AgileThought for nearly two
years now and previously was a Technical Advisor at
InterContinental Hotel Groups.
In this episode, Dan and Sean explore the background
and history behind DevOps, where they believe it is headed in the
future, the enablers that help teams be most effective with DevOps,
important mindsets to bring to DevOps, as well as both the
challenges and benefits of DevOps not having a defined
manifesto or framework.
Key Takeaways
Challenges Sean sees the most without a manifesto in
terms of defining good DevOps:
- It is harder to get education around it
- Lack of standardization
- Lots of interpretations of what DevOps is
The benefits of DevOps not having a defined manifesto
or framework:
- Freedom to create different frameworks around what
works best for a customer or organization so it’s much more
adaptive
- A supported culture of collaboration
- Able to adapt and grow more easily over the
years
- Continuous learning
Important mindsets to bring into DevOps:
- Focus on connecting the dots of Dev and Ops
- Work together as a team and articulate that to the
business
- Get every stakeholder of the business involved
- Don’t do things in a vacuum
- Learn from every experience, good or bad
- Effectively debrief so you’re continuously improving
and learning
- A strong culture with expectations
Where Sean sees DevOps headed and where he thinks it
should head:
- A possible name change as the name itself is
limiting
- Not to think of DevOps in such a narrow way and
instead, think of how to radiate it throughout the entire
organization
- Be more careful about building silos in
communities
- Move towards a model similar to ADAPT (which ties
together Transformation, Agile, DevOps, and Product all into one
executable transformation)
- DevSecOps and a greater culture of
collaboration
Mentioned in this Episode:
Sean Davis
(LinkedIn)
Agile Manifesto
Patrick Debois
(AKA the Godfather of DevOps)
John Willis’ framework,
CAMS
DevOps Institute
ITSM Academy
Gene Kim’s ‘Three Ways’
Scrum
DevSecOps
Azure
Terraform
Xebialabs
VSTS (Azure
DevOps)
Derek Wade
Tom Gilmore, creator of
ADAPT
Sean Davis’ Book Picks
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your
Business Win, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George
Spafford
Reinventing Organizations, by Frederic
Laloux
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