Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale

This practical guide addresses technical, cultural, and managerial challenges of implementing and maintaining a DevOps culture by describing failures and successes. Authors Katherine Daniels and Jennifer Davis provide with actionable strategies you can use to engineer sustainable changes in your environment regardless of your level within your organization.

Strategies include:

• Individual collaboration: Changes to help people get work done, get along with others, and avoid burnout
• Team affinity: New patterns and styles for working together, with real-world case studies for different organizational sizes and types
• Tools: Different types of tools, their uses cases, and things to consider when choosing or developing them
• Devops at scale: Strategies for taking what works and scaling it up, as well as common pitfalls that can happen when working in any large organization

Table of Contents

Part I. What Is Devops?
Chapter 1. The Big Picture
Chapter 2. What Is Devops?
Chapter 3. A History of Devops
Chapter 4. Foundational Terminology and Concepts
Chapter 5. Devops Misconceptions and Anti-Patterns
Chapter 6. The Four Pillars of Effective Devops

Part II. Collaboration
Chapter 7. Collaboration: Individuals Working Together
Chapter 8. Collaboration: Misconceptions and Troubleshooting

Part III. Affinity
Chapter 9. Affinity: From Individuals to Teams
Chapter 10. Affinity: Misconceptions and Troubleshooting

Part IV. Tools
Chapter 11. Tools: Ecosystem Overview
Chapter 12. Tools: Accelerators of Culture
Chapter 13. Tools: Misconceptions and Troubleshooting

Part V. Scaling
Chapter 14. Scaling: Inflection Points
Chapter 15. Scaling: Misconceptions and Troubleshooting

Part VI. Bridging Devops Cultures
Chapter 16. Building Bridges with the Four Pillars of Effective Devops
Chapter 17. Bridging Devops Cultures: Learning from Our Stories
Chapter 18. Bridging Devops Cultures: Fostering Human Connections
Chapter 19. Conclusion
Chapter 20. Further Resources