Kevin Behr

This one is rather interesting book.

On one hand it tries to show how inter-departmental cooperation, especially between IT services and between IT and actual business can prove highly valuable and can speed up and stream-line the main business processes and business-supportive projects/processes.

On the other hand for the dramatic purpose, issues that take significant amount of time in real life are shortened to a ridiculous short time-spans and some teams are shown as very slow-movers and not very capable. Some IT departments are shown as especially ... troublesome.

So I understand some of the reactions to the book (I recognized myself in several characters).

In my opinion what this book does very good is to show what exactly DevOps is - improvement in overall organizational thinking and planning, striving to achieve more in smaller steps [remember those many sayings like brick-by-brick-you-get-a-house]. If everyone is working together, if everyone is motivated and aims for the same - success of the core business - everything can be achieved.

All in all very interesting book that tries [in form of a fiction instead of academic or professional-literature way] to give insights to the readers how things can be much easier achieved through DevOps approach. And funny thing is that all the lections presented are applicable everywhere - not just to IT.

Recommended to everyone interested in organizational and planning issues.… (altro)