The Three Ways of DevOps

The DevOps Handbook & Accelerate are the source material for
this episode. 



The DevOps Handbook is the best introduction to DevOps available.
It puts the value stream at the center of an IT company, thus
it’s in the company’s best interest to optimize the value stream.
The DevOps Handbook presents the “Three Ways”: flow, feedback,
and learning.



Accelerate picks up where the DevOps Handbook left off. The three
ways cover theory and relevant technical practices, but does not
precisely define success criteria. Accelerate defines four
metrics for measuring IT performance: lead time, deployment
frequency, MTTR, and change failure rate. Research done by the
authors also presents low, medium, and high performance targets
for each metric. 



Combining theory and practices from The DevOps Handbook and
metrics from Accelerate provide a solid philosophy for software
development and measuring performance. That’s “DevOps” in a
nutshell.


Books


The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis,
Patrick Debois

Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

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