DevOps Q&A with Nicole Forsgren

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We’ve recently welcomed two new additions to our Advisory Board – with Nicole Forsgren and John Willis, joining Gene Kim and Gary Gruver as Electric Cloud’s strategic advisors.

As we set to work with each of the advisors, we also took the opportunity to pick their brains about where DevOps is heading, what are the key things we should know as we set out on this journey, and what are some of the emerging technologies and patterns they have their eye on. We’re excited to share the tips and insights from these DevOps luminaries in this short Q&A series – starting off with Dr. Nicole Forsgren!

In your experience, what is the biggest challenge for adopting and scaling DevOps in the enterprise?

Right now, I think the biggest challenge for organizations is focusing on prioritization and doing the right things to accelerate their technology transformations. So often, companies and organizations want to take the easy way out and just “buy” their DevOps solution – which usually means buying a technology or automation tool. At the same time, the DevOps crowd sings from the rooftops that DevOps is all about culture. And then the agile and lean practitioners chime in that process is important.

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