While the DevOps movement began in earnest in 2009, there are still a lot of questions about what DevOps means, how it’s done, and what the purported benefits of DevOps are. Big questions, for sure. And there are no quick answers. In fact, to thoroughly answer each would require numerous books. Which brings us to […]
DevOps and The Goal
Reading, “The Goal” was a pivotal event in my career. More than a decade ago a friend of mine who was an operations professor at Georgia Tech told me it was his favorite book. We were discussing the challenges of getting work done in a corporate environment. I was grumbling about leading a web dev […]
Is DevOps Ready to Cross the Chasm to Mainstream?
There are just a handful of business books that I have read that have had a profound influence on me. One was Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project”, another was Eliyahu Goldratt’s “The Goal”. A third one was Geoffrey Moore’s, “Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers”. Even though written in the […]