I was recently talking to an engineer friend of mine over of a cup of coffee at a conference. His company had been in “DevOps strategy planning” for over six months and they had settled on the task of automating the delivery of their software. He was feeling frustrated—there never seemed to be enough time to get anything meaningful done, he couldn’t tell what others were doing, and a recent conversation revealed that not everyone had the same definition for “automating the delivery of software”, much less having the same ideas behind what the word DevOps meant.
…In this column, Coffee Shop DevOps, over the next 12 months, I’ll touch on some of the key things you and your organization can do to make incremental progress without taking on big hairy audacious goals.
