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Top 5 Lessons for Every DevOps Leader

One thing about the DevOps route is that it comes with a lot of range. Two organizations may be using a DevOps approach, but differ considerably in how they apply it. Ultimately, different organizations will succeed or fail at DevOps for different reasons. Naturally, DevOps leaders implementing specific and widespread changes are caught in the middle.

Regardless of your organization’s structure, from a leadership perspective, there are several boxes you must check if you’re to succeed at DevOps. We are going to look at five of the most prevalent lessons that a leader can draw from executing a DevOps strategy.

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Top 5 Leadership Sessions From DevOps World 2020

With over 25,000 registrants, 100+ sessions, and dozens of training and workshops, DevOps World 2020 delivered inspiring, strategic, actionable insight into where software delivery is going and what enterprises can do to deliver the experiences customers and users expect.

Historically, our excellent technical programming at DevOps World has attracted developers, engineers, and other IT professionals. This year, we partnered with independent analyst firm Accelerated Strategies Group, to kick-start our journey towards additional leadership-oriented content. And it paid off. 

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Scaling in DevOps

There are a number of barriers in scaling DevOps.

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.