The coronavirus crisis is demonstrating how companies with an agile DevOps mindset can better respond to new circumstances and challenges than companies with rigid structures and processes.
By Romano Roth and Romeo Weber
Companies today are squeezed from both sides: deliver more, deliver faster, and do it at lower cost. At the same time, changes to products often take months to reach the customer. DevOps is what closes that gap — and that is why it matters.
DevOps is one of the most overloaded words in our industry. People use it to mean a tool, a team, a job description, even a vendor product. None of those are right. DevOps is the set of cultural and technical practices that improve the development (Dev) and operation (Ops) of software — together, across the entire life cycle.
Everyone wants to do DevOps. But only a few understand what DevOps is and what it does with your company.
The Challenge # When you want to introduce DevOps in a company you need to convince decision-makers that it is worth investing money, time, and resources into the DevOps transformation. They will ask you about the business case and the return on investment of DevOps.
Introducing DevOps in a large enterprise is difficult. But wait, why do we want to introduce DevOps in the first place? Good question.
The Full Story # In this talk, I answer the question and show you what happens when you introduce DevOps, and what does not happen.
