As consultant (or a new member in a devops team), what are your telltale signs of a “DevOps” organization? Do share them in comments section. Below are my top 5.

Product based teams over component teams:

Autonomous and cross skilled teams are key to deliver and maintain products. An organization structure which is based on knowledge silos (such as dev, qa, ops) is bound to create multiple handovers and thereby increase waste and risk of things going wrong. In a mature Devops organization, you will typically find organization structures based on the products/services they offer.