The Devops Adoption Playbook - by Sanjeev Sharma (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Awarded DevOps 2017 Book of the Year, The DevOps Adoption Playbook provides practical, actionable, real-world guidance on implementing DevOps at enterprise scale. Author Sanjeev Sharma heads the DevOps practice for IBM; in this book, he provides unique guidance and insight on implementing DevOps at large organizations. Most DevOps literature is aimed at startups, but enterprises have unique needs, capabilities, limitations, and challenges; "DevOps for startups" doesn't work at this scale, but the DevOps paradigm can revolutionize enterprise IT. Deliver high-value applications and systems with velocity and agility by adopting the necessary practices, automation tools, and organizational and cultural changes that lead to innovation through rapid experimentation. Speed is an advantage in the face of competition, but it must never come at the expense of quality; DevOps allows your organization to keep both by intersecting development, quality assurance, and operations.

Enterprise-level DevOps comes with its own set of challenges, but this book shows you just how easily they are overcome. With a slight shift in perspective, your organization can stay ahead of the competition while keeping costs, risks, and quality under control.

• Grasp the full extent of the DevOps impact on IT organizations
• Achieve high-value innovation and optimization with low cost and risk
• Exceed traditional business goals with higher product release efficiency
• Implement DevOps in large-scale enterprise IT environments

DevOps has been one of IT's hottest trends for the past decade, and plenty of success stories testify to its effectiveness in organizations of any size, industry, or level of IT maturity, all around the world. The DevOps Adoption Playbook shows you how to get your organization on board so you can slip production into the fast lane and innovate your way to the top.

From the Back Cover

Deliver High-Value, Streamlined Enterprise Applications and Systems with DevOps

Enterprise IT has unique needs, capabilities, limitations, and challenges. DevOps is perfectly suited to deliver high-value applications and systems with velocity and agility, enabling innovation and speed while never sacrificing quality. But until now, most DevOps instruction has been focused on start-ups and born-on-the-web companies with an entirely different set of requirements.

In The DevOps Adoption Playbook, IBM Distinguished Engineer Sanjeev Sharma shows you exactly how to adopt DevOps in the enterprise based on your organization's business goals, current state of IT maturity, and IT technologies and platforms. Derived from his own experience helping companies in a wide variety of industries to successfully adopt DevOps, it outlines how to get your organization on board, meet the challenges, and move into the fast lane.

Like a sports playbook, this guide provides "plays" that can be executed for different scenarios and situations within your company. You will learn to create an individual game plan that factors in specifics of your business and get your team working together with a common goal. The DevOps Adoption Playbook shows you how to:

• Understand the elements and capabilities of DevOps
• Respond to the challenges of a multi-speed IT environment
• Identify the business goals that large enterprises can meet with DevOps
• Implement DevOps in large-scale enterprise IT environments
• Achieve high-value innovation and optimization with low cost and risk
• Exceed business goals with higher product release efficiency
• Apply DevOps across multiple technologies from mainframe, mobile, containers, microservices, to cloud technologies

About the Author

SANJEEV SHARMA is an internationally known DevOps and Cloud Transformation thought leader. His experience includes tenures as CTO, Worldwide Technical Sales Leader, and Cloud Architect. He is also an IBM Distinguished Engineer, recognized at the highest levels of IBM's exclusive core of technical leaders. As IBM's Global CTO for DevOps Adoption, Sanjeev advises and mentors senior tech executives on executing DevOps and Cloud transformations across industries and geographies.