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Questions tagged [culture]

For questions about DevOps 'culture' and how it can be used to improve organisations, policies and workflows. Use this tag for questions about how an organisational culture can be changed through DevOps, or about the culture that many DevOps advocates suggest.

Rouan Wilsenach describes DevOps culture as:

The primary characteristic of DevOps culture is increased collaboration between the roles of development and operations. There are some important cultural shifts, within teams and at an organisational level, that support this collaboration.

DevOps culture is is broken down further into the following aspects:

  • No organisational silos.
  • Autonomy within teams.
  • Shared responsibility.

Use this tag for questions about how an organisational culture can be changed through DevOps, or about the culture that many DevOps advocates suggest.

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How to help DevOps Engineers feel less like a lone wolf?

I have just been speaking to a DevOps guy who raised some really good points about the struggles of being a DevOps Engineer and feeling like a one-man army sometimes, even though he is in a team of 16 Engineers. He wears lots of different hats, but…
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How can I persuade developers on my team to embrace "You build it, you run it"?

How can I persuade developers on my team to embrace "You build it, you run it"? By that, I have this quote from Werner Vogels in mind: Giving developers operational responsibilities has greatly enhanced the quality of the services, both from a…
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Why are books so prevalent in the DevOps community?

I have seen quite a few of the blogs I follow recommending more and more books over time. I enjoy reading fiction and have no aversion to books but where a blogpost can be updated/rewritten when tech moves on these books which are normally ~£20-30…
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Ways to the DevOps hiring process optimization through CALMS paradigma?

Much of DevOps recruitement happens to follow along the lines of keyword matching, which leads in my opinion to solely technology focus. Now, DevOps is about so much more than just technology, and DevOps Engineer is not just a better system…
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What are fetching DevOps analogies?

Some presenters use analogies to clarify a certain technology, e.g. Pizza as a Service 2.0 that explains the differences between different as-a-Service (aaS) stacks. Advantages of this Pizza analogy is that it consists of multiple analogies, i.e.…
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What are known useful and misleading memes in the DevOps culture?

After discovering the Cattle vs Pets and 12factor apps DevOps memes which now will help me a lot with communication, I ask myself what are other known memes in the DevOps culture? Side note: best is to establish fact why a meme is a meme e.g. more…
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When is it ethically acceptable to fork someone else github code and continue with that?

https://github.com/kamaln7/ansible-swapfile Seems not to be maintained. For example, an issue was created in May and no reaction. A new issue has just been created to ask whether this repo is still maintained. When is it allowed to fork someone…
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Does a company need DevOps if it already delivers software at acceptable speed?

I mean, DevOps is, from the business view, about speed and quality, right? What does it mean if a company is growing and fast enough for their customers without devops? Does one of the following apply? They did, or do software development at…
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Understanding DevOps opponents on stakeholder level beyond typical examples

What are typical stakeholders and their reasons not to support/enable DevOps principles?* Background: in small to medium organizations, certain level of DevOps is not a very big problem due to thinner silos and faster communications paths. But how…
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What Chief is accountable for DevOps?

CIO Chief information officer (CIO), chief digital information officer (CDIO) or information technology (IT) director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and…
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What means “system engineer practicing DevOps”?

In the comments section of this answer, it’s explained that the asker is a “(system) engineer practicing DevOps” not a DevOps engineer, and this it is an “important distinction” not often understood. So, what makes a DevOps Engineer NOT a DevOp…
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Leadership types for DevOps team?

Would you say from experience, either task or relationship leadership style works better for DevOps? Or would you go for something else in this context than Forsyth's theory?
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What is good and/or bad about Accenture's Multi-speed IT approach to DevOps?

Accenture are talking a lot about their "Multi-speed IT" approach. It appears in their strategy consulting here: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-calibrating-multi-speed-it and on blog posts in their DevOps…
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How to deal with authority bias?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority_bias Authority bias is the tendency to attribute greater accuracy to the opinion of an authority figure (unrelated to its content) and be more influenced by that opinion. The Milgram experiment in 1961…
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How to become a CIO?

According to this blog, one could become a CIO if one meets the following criteria: BSc in Computer Science Proven experience in Project Management Specialized in an certain area by becoming certified IT Governance and Risk…
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