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Organizing for action

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Organizing for action

- Pivoting from a traditional waterfall to an agile and lean DevOps process can be very hard for an organization. Development teams might be aware of paired programming, scrum, and Kanban but knowing about a practice and actually performing it are two very different things. It might also be daunting to get operations onboard with this idea or the idea of agile infrastructure. Some ops organizations might only care about system uptime and how to maximize that and not about real business need. Back in 1967, programmer Melvin Conway proposed what became known as Conway's Law. It states that organizations end up producing systems whose design copies their organizational communication structure. Given this, how you organize your teams and lines of communication become pretty critical to your product outcome. It's important to take this into consideration as you move through your DevOps transformation. One practice that works…

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