It can be quite tricky and it can happen very quickly that you create a third DevOps silo between Development & Operations.
If you want to build DevOps team(s) and aim to abolish the traditional silos of Development & Operations, try to avoid creating three silos instead.
It may happen that you accidentally divide the responsibility strictly into 3 parts:
“We, you and them” mindset in “three silos” environment can cause even more BLAME than before.
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By Tomas Filip on October 28, 2020 in the DevOps
By Tomas Filip on October 26, 2020 in the DevOps
Calling your team as “DevOps team” will lead people to associate the DevOps philosophy with a specific role. Do you want to start doing automation? Do you want to start making changes in general?
By Tomas Filip on October 06, 2020 in the DevOps
... and DevOps is NOT even a methodology. It’s a philosophy, it’s a state of mind. When you are looking for “DevOps”, what exactly you want want to find? What do you want to achieve? A lot of processes are manual and it is necessary to automate? Or do you need some cultural change in general?
By Tomas Filip on September 27, 2020 in the DevOps
Do you think you are DevOps when you have some automation? DevOps is NOT just about automation, scripts or pipelines... it's not something you can start overnight or by hiring one DevOps person.