DevOps For The Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations

Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Most have evolved over the years by taking lessons from traditional or legacy manufacturing: creating a production process that puts the emphasis on the process instead of the people performing the tasks, allowing the organization to treat people like resources to try to achieve high-quality outcomes. But those practices and ideas are failing modern IT, where collaboration and creativeness are required to achieve high-performing, high-quality success.

Mirco Hering, a thought leader in managing IT within legacy organizations, lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers, showing them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver’s seat to propel their organization to success.

But just having the right methods and tools will not magically transform an organization; the cultural change that is the hardest is also the most impactful. Using principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.

Table of Contents

Part A Creating the Right Ecosystem
Chapter 1 The Roadmap to Transformation
Chapter 2 Accepting the Multispeed Reality (for Now)
Chapter 3 Dealing with Software Packages and Software Vendors
Chapter 4 Finding the Right Partner

Part B The People and Organizational Dimension
Chapter 5 Context is King
Chapter 6 Structuring Yourself for Success
Chapter 7 From Testers to Quality Engineers
Chapter 8 Managing People, Not Resources

Part C Technology and Architecture Aspects
Chapter 9 Different Delivery Models
Chapter 10 Application Architecture and Microservices
Chapter 11 Running Applications and Your DevOps Tools Efficiently
Chapter 12 The Cloud

Appendix A Closer Look at the Factory Analogy