Practice 1 – Own the process within the team!
Own the entire process within the team, from receiving requirements to monitoring production. As was once remarked, "A program running on the developer's machine makes no money." This is why it's important to have a small DevOps team that takes complete ownership of a product. Actually, that is the true meaning of DevOps: Development and Operations, from the beginning to the end:
- Own every stage of the Continuous Delivery pipeline: how to build the software, what the requirements are in acceptance tests, and how to release the product.
- Avoid having a pipeline expert! Every member of the team should be involved in creating the pipeline.
- Find a good way to share the current pipeline state (and the production monitoring) among team members. The most effective solution is big screens in the team space.
- If a developer, QA, and IT operations engineer are separate experts...
