Comments on: Devops, complexity and anti-fragility in IT: Risk and anti-fragility

By: Joe Sanchez

Joe Sanchez — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:10:45 +0000

DevOps is not a technology or a team. It's a culture change and unfortunately only a few are getting it right because people keep getting in the way. I once heard "anything with 2 heads is a monster" that's why IT and Development struggle to deliver even the simplest code. The are a 2 headed monster. DevOps merges the 2 heads into one and tryings to build a culture around teams working together instead of against each other. Here's a post I wrote on the Shades of DevOps.

By: Jez Humble

Jez Humble — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:30:57 +0000

You’ve met DevOps evil twin. Check out my post: “there’s no such thing as a devops team”: http://continuousdelivery.com/2012/10/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-devops-team/

By: Sub Bose

Sub Bose — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:11:26 +0000

Dev ops is nothing more but good old shell scripting on steroids. Looks like developers don’t have enough work , so they have started to muck around with System Administration. The result is actually a slower rate of change because previously what could be a simple shell script change has now to be floated to the DevOps team , who will put it on their agile voodoo dashboard, checkout from svn, make changes , check it back in, run through dev, qa and ultimately to production. On top of that they are always back logged so what used to take a day in the olden days with the Devops team it is now a two weeks process. Basically this is all part of the overall process to dehumanize our jobs.

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:29:12 +0000

Not just the arc of innovation is relevant to adoption of the “everyone makes mistakes” approach. When times are interesting and sub-organisations are on the downbeat it is hard for an employee to say we should try this and see if it works; middle management can be looking over their shoulders rather than holding their heads up.