This talk looked at transformation to Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps in large, heavily regulated organizations. The core message: don’t mandate DevOps — grow it organically.
Key takeaways:
- Don’t mandate DevOps. Give employees the chance to master their discipline with examples to set and follow
- Favor deep end-to-end accomplishments over broad but incremental steps forward
- Focus on taking the right teams far before encouraging broad adoption
- Centralize the platforms and tools that your teams shouldn’t be thinking about
- Provide foundational services/commodities and let teams stay on purpose
- Incorporate contributions from everyone; don’t stifle autonomy
- Stay open to new ways of working
- Challenge security policies, but respect intentions — find new ways to enforce concerns without abandoning precaution