Conclusion

In this chapter, we explored further what it means to be open with a particular focus on introducing open leadership and open spaces. The open culture practices introduced in Chapter 4, Open Culture, help teams become autonomous and self-managing. Leadership has a role to play in creating an environment that facilitates and enables this way of working.

We emphasized the importance of leadership setting intent when establishing a solid foundation for a team to base its product discovery and continuous delivery on. This is crucial for a DevOps culture to be successful. As we get further into this book to explore technical practices and how platforms such as OpenShift can deliver continuous business value, we need our teams to have a strong cultural foundation enabled and supported by an open leadership culture driving open organization behaviors from the top down.

We looked at some examples of strong, open leadership – just-in-time decision-making, collaborative...