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How do you convince leadership that DevOps is not just a cost center, but actually a competitive advantage?
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Prove it.
Gene Kim
RT @paulycomtois: How do you convince leadership that DevOps is not just a cost center, but actually a competitive advantage?
Carmen DeArdo
demonstrate the value - e.g. the ability that Nationwide showed last year to respond to customers in a disaster like Harvey (or Florence)
Mike Kavis
small incremental wins, like Chris said...prove it
Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理
@cshl1 self fulfilling prophecies self fulfill
Ben Grinnell
Don't account for it like that. Account for the poly-skilled team driving business benefits. Build enough into the costs there to pay for the 'community enhancements'
Daniel Barker
I have used the DORA research to help create a reasonable business case that shows the benefits. https://opensource.c...
Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理
if IT is a cost center, you already lost, Darwinian evolution will run its course, let them die off
Carmen DeArdo
experiment with a few teams/products and demonstrate how they can succeed and then let those teams tell their own stories
Carmen DeArdo
have them read this https://itrevolution... or Mark Schwartz's book on the Seat at the Table
Mauerbauertraurigkeit 3x+1
@cshl1 In my case it showing the value to the bottom line. This means I must be measuring and have a baseline to compare against as well as being able to communicate the value in a format the leadership can consume.
Manuel Pais
When was the last time we sold a product that used no software at all?
Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理
@madgreek65 a losing strategy if you are starting under funded and unempowered, especially when you consider the natural arc of skill acquisition starts with a decreased performance before improvements and the prevailing politics are against you
Olivier Jacques
is this what happens when you just rebrand "IT" into "DevOps"? DevOps is not the what. It's the how. Hard to get rid of the "how"
Gene Kim
OH from @chris_t_omalley: "Every CEO knows that they need to invest, and that almost always has to do with writing software"