DevOps For The Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations

by Mirco Hering, Bhaskar Ghosh (Foreword by)

Overview

Winner of the 2018 DevOps Dozen Best DevOps Book! In this award-winning title, thought leader Mirco Hering lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers of legacy organizations, showing them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver’s seat to propel their organization to success.Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Most have evolved over the years by taking lessons from traditional or legacy manufacturing: creating a production process that puts the emphasis on the process instead of the people performing the tasks, allowing the organization to treat people like resources to try to achieve high-quality outcomes. But those practices and ideas are failing modern IT, where collaboration and creativeness are required to achieve high-performing, high-quality success. But just having the right methods and tools will not magically transform an organization; the cultural change that is the hardest is also the most impactful. Using principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942788195
Publisher:	IT Revolution Press
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

For over a dozen years Mirco Hering has worked on accelerating software delivery through innovative approaches (what is now called DevOps) and 10 years ago started experimenting with Agile methods. As the Asia Pacific lead for DevOps and Agile at Accenture he supports major public and private sector companies in Australia and overseas in their search for efficient IT delivery. Mirco blogs about his experiences at NotAFactoryAnymore.com and speaks at global conferences to share what he has learned. Follow Micro at Twitter @MircoHering.

Table of Contents

Figures ix

Tables xii

Foreword Dr. Bhaskar Ghosh xiii

Preface xv

Introduction How We Got Here xxiii

Part A Creating the Right Ecosystem

Chapter 1 The Roadmap to Transformation 3

Chapter 2 Accepting the Multispeed Reality (for Now) 27

Chapter 3 Dealing with Software Packages and Software Vendors 45

Chapter 4 Finding the Right Partner 59

Part B The People and Organizational Dimension

Chapter 5 Context is King 81

Chapter 6 Structuring Yourself for Success 99

Chapter 7 From Testers to Quality Engineers 115

Chapter 8 Managing People, Not Resources 131

Part C Technology and Architecture Aspects

Chapter 9 Different Delivery Models 143

Chapter 10 Application Architecture and Microservices 165

Chapter 11 Running Applications and Your DevOps Tools Efficiently 179

Chapter 12 The Cloud 191

Conclusion Being a Knowledge Worker 203

Appendix A Closer Look at the Factory Analogy 209

Resources 221

Glossary 225

Index 235

Notes 245

Acknowledgments 251

About the Author 253

Editorial Reviews

"Whether you are just getting started with DevOps or you are a seasoned professional seeking counsel on how to apply its principles at scale, as you go through DevOps for the Modern Enterprise, you will find yourself infected by the enthusiasm Mirco has for DevOps and the benefits it can bring."

Dr. Bhaskar Ghosh

Mirco knows his stuff. He has a way of stating simple choices and framing options that encourage action. His unique perspective on how to transform your IT organization, especially when you have heavily invested in outsourcing, are both thoughtful and practical. After you read his book, make sure to subscribe to his blog. You want to make sure to have Mirco by your side as you go through this transformation.

Mustafa Kapadia

This is a much needed book on building teamwork to drive technology infrastructure efforts. Mirco introduces a simple set of processes and well reasoned principles to align the organization, transform technology infrastructure, and deliver value for customers.

Eric Passmore

"A pragmatic view on IT and DevOps that doesn’t just focus on the ‘what’ but the ‘how’ based on first-hand experience.

Ajay Nair

DevOps is a hot topic. Pretty much every major organization wants it, and pretty much every major organization is struggling to come to grips with what ‘it’ is and exactly how to get it. Mirco is a rare entity in the space. He’s an architect who has grown up in large, complex organizations working with even larger, more complex systems integrators and delivery partners heavily reliant on ERP, CRM and other COTS applications that seem to challenge much of what DevOps is about. Both pragmatic and practical, he not only gives great tips on how to find your way down the DevOps path in these environments but will help you avoid many a mistake as he shares his own.

Mark Richards

This is a truly practical companion book to the other leading publications in the DevOps space. Mirco shares real-world lessons from many years of collective experience and provides tried and tested exercises for you to use to help drive insights and improvements in your organization.

Emily Arnautovic