Reed Brent, Schaub Willy, Mathai Mathew, et al. Navigating DevOps Through Waterfalls

Tactec Strategic Solutions Inc., 2020. — 242 p.This book will take you, the reader, along a journey of implementing a DevOps mindset in your organization, so climb aboard our cramped boat for an experience you will not forget! Enjoy a learning adventure, so you can practice the behaviour, attitude, processes and tools in your organization... or at least be ready when DevOps comes your way. This book will demonstrate how to bring DevOps into your organization through five core values: 1. Improve beyond the limits of today’s processes. 2. No new silos to break down silos. 3. Feedback from stakeholders is essential. 4. Knowing your customer means cross-organization collaboration. 5. Inspire adoption through enthusiasm.The authors present their DevOps adoption advice as a story. This is a tale of a fateful trip, a trip that started from a tropic isle, aboard a tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day for a three-hour tour. A three-hour tour! But the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, they would have been lost!This book is a story based on the hard-won experiences of the four authors after helping various organizations for years in their DevOps adoptions. DevOps has effectively become table stakes for your organization's IT processes, even more so given how COVID-19 has upended societies around the globe. In the private sector, the marketplace has become far more competitive, requiring companies to get better at sensing and responding quickly to meet their customers’ needs before someone else does. In the public sector, the needs of their citizens have increased while the tax base has shrunk, implying that they need to do more with less. Although the book is presented as a work of fiction, the lessons in it are very real and very important.