Summary

There is an often (mis)quoted saying, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” and seldom has this been more pertinent than in the world of DevOps. No matter how well crafted your strategy for adopting DevOps may be, it will not succeed if your team is not on board with the culture and mindset required. By promoting the advantages of a DevOps process and ensuring that the entire team works together to this model, with strong communication along the way, you have laid the foundation for a successful Salesforce DevOps transformation and can now build upon it with the tools and techniques we’ll explore in the next part of this book. In the next two chapters, we’ll first look at the essential role that testing plays across your DevOps life cycle, before looking at an example workflow that takes these elements into account with a typical SFDX and Git workflow.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast – or does it?

The quote is attributed to renowned management expert, Peter Drucker. While this version remains in popular use and demonstrates our point here, Drucker’s original quote was “Culture – no matter how defined – is singularly persistent.”