Resources for the book
Navigating DevOps through Waterfalls
Join the Agents of Chaos (AoCs) as they embark on a mission to help save Mr. Maverick, Big Corp’s CIO, from the evil clutches of the Overlords! The AoCs see how Big Corp, like many companies, confuse Agile as DevOps and vice versa; worse, they believe they can just buy it off the shelf. There is a lot of work with the AoCs to help Mr. Maverick and his IT teams. This book will take you, the reader, along a journey of implementing a DevOps mindset in your organization, so climb aboard our cramped boat for an experience you will not forget! Enjoy a learning adventure, so you can practice the behaviour, attitude, processes and tools in your organization … or at least be ready when DevOps comes your way.
Book Character Personas
Overlords
CIO
Dev Engineer
Operations Lead
IT Manager
Ops Engineer
Developer
UX
Tester
Business Analyst
Agents of Chaos
Agent 13
Agent 77
Agent 9
Agent 14
Checklists
DevOps Core Values
What are the Agents of Chaos DevOps Core Values? The Agents of Chaos reference throughout their book the DevOps Core Values. Right from Act 1
Creating effective teams with a DevOps mindset
Welcome to our checklists. They serve as useful companions during Navigating DevOps through waterfall journeys, help jog our memory, and point us in the right
Expand your culture to embrace a DevOps Mindset
Welcome to our checklists. They serve as useful companions during Navigating DevOps through waterfall journeys, help jog our memory, and point us in the right
Positive and negative characteristics of self-organising teams
Welcome to our checklists. They serve as useful companions during Navigating DevOps through waterfall journeys, help jog our memory, and point us in the right
Improve your technical practices
Welcome to our checklists. They serve as useful companions during Navigating DevOps through waterfall journeys, help jog our memory, and point us in the right
Streamline your processes
Welcome to our checklists. They serve as useful companions during Navigating DevOps through waterfall journeys, help jog our memory, and point us in the right
Community of Practice (CoP)
Welcome to our checklists. They serve as useful companions during Navigating DevOps through waterfall journeys, help jog our memory, and point us in the
Discussions
Coloured Diagrams
We appologise that some of the illustrations in Act 1 and 2, lost clarity and detail in the monochrome printouts. Here is a copy of
Lifecycles
Lifecycles Delivery Lifecycles what are they and why are they important? We need to be explicit about what we mean by a lifecycle, there is
Roles and Personas
Roles and Personas Roles There are many roles in Agile or DevOps teams, in our book we tackle a few roles and we use personas
Improving Our Way of Working
The first core value is to Improve beyond the limits of today’s processes. Whether a product or project, it makes sense that we have a
Walkthroughs
Create a self-formed team with Post-Its
Back in the days of Microsoft, a crazy idea was used to create self-formed teams, allowing every team member to choose what they wanted to
Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
We all have value streams. Some are simple, some are complex, and some are organised around the flow of value. We map our value steams
Create a Simple Assessment Survey
A survey is an effective way to get candid feedback from stakeholders of your transformation journey and understand what is profoundly important to them. It
