Many large enterprises launch small DevOps initiatives within certain departments but subsequently find that scaling DevOps across the organization to enable meaningful and true digital transformation faces a number of challenges that must be overcome.
We face challenges in our environment based on our past decisions as well as our current objectives. If we approach these problems from the individual, team and organizational level, we can successfully assess, plan and overcome them. Indeed, the key challenge to adopting DevOps is, in essence, scaling challenges. The barriers that can exist at various levels get magnified with history, impacting how we approach the various inflection points that occur in organizational lifecycles.