What Is DevOps [FAQ] By @Automic | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

The example of a huge company might alienate. It's DevOps on a massive scale, with a budget enough to create custom tools and personnel time enough to constantly develop initiatives. But DevOps can take any form you like, you can introduce it to your organization at any time, and it can start small - in fact, that's the best way. Any ‘big bang' DevOps initiative is doomed to fail because if you force everyone to suddenly collaborate, there'll be uproar. It's human nature. The overarching goal is improvement - and that can work anywhere. You just have to be a strong leader, take a step-by-step approach and encourage participation. For example, try introducing an agile project in one area, in a safe situation with mandatory collaborative communication and a largely automated operations workload. As a constant during the project and after, work with feedback from users, hold DevOps forums after projects and keep iterating. Set targets like cutting deployments in half - it'll get people cutting out unnecessary steps and will make processes more repeatable - and by doing this, knowledge will also move from the heads of the few to the many as it's shared.

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