Scaling DevOps in an enterprise environment

We've discussed the benefits of DevOps and what cloud adoption, automation, and an agile way of working could bring to an enterprise. The big question is: How and where to start? Opinions differ here, from a big-bang approach to step-by-step adoption.

Enterprises that have a lot of their IT muscles outsourced to different IT suppliers and that have been working for decades in a certain way are not easily changed. For one, there will be a lot of pushback from staff—remember that DevOps is also about changing a mindset or a culture. In this section, we're taking the approach of step-by-step adoption, or evolution instead of revolution.

Here are some recommendations:

• Start small: Don't start by implementing DevOps on large projects. Organize a small team and a simple project to learn and—even more important—to identify possible bottlenecks in the processes. What is possibly hindering the DevOps...