Building Bridges with DevOps

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Five Questions for Katherine Daniels: Thoughts on adopting DevOps effectively, the importance of empathy, and new essential skills for today’s ops professionals.

Katherine is co-author, along with Jennifer Davis, of O’Reilly Media’s Effective DevOps, and is presenting on the topic of “Building bridges with DevOps” at Velocity New York in September. We recently sat down to discuss what it’s like when an organization adopts DevOps, and how that transition can be improved. Here are some highlights from our conversation.

You’ve written extensively on DevOps—including the book Effective DevOps with Jennifer Davis. What do organizations usually get wrong when “going DevOps”?

One of the big issues I’ve seen is organizations that look to “DevOps” as a solution without a clear understanding of what problems they are trying to solve. 

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