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DevOps Coaching: Understanding Its Facets and Assessing Its Impact
As little as one may know about what it means to be a DevOps Coach, there’s one thing that virtually everyone agrees upon. DevOps Coaches help organizations and teams to a higher “performance level” by working more efficiently and effectively. In many organizations, the Scrum Masters are the DevOps Coaches, but not everywhere is Scrum…
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How to Define DevOps
Hundreds of definitions exist for DevOps. Here, we have captured three in which we highlighted essential elements by underlying them. As you can see, these elements stand for something larger than an intangible but also applicable to enterprise-wide IT improvement and continuous innovation of the IT capability. Key points: Source: DASA DevOps Fundamentals coursebook.
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Why Shared Accountability of Teams is Crucial for High-performing Teams
Joined team responsibility is a primary characteristic of high-performing teams. In a DevOps team, the shared responsibility for Development and Operations is also a defining characteristic. It is easy for the Development team not to be interested in the operation and maintenance of a system when handed over to another team. However, if the Development…
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The Business Benefits of DevOps
We live in interesting times in which innovations emerge at an increasing pace. Many startups and new companies have completely displaced or destabilized existing industries. Many organizations have started to tear down the walls between business and IT, and even thicker walls between technical departments within IT. They have replaced their technical departments with organizational…