Transformation topologies
Every organization is different; even organizations in the same sector are different, for a variety of different reasons. To make transition as effective as possible, there are many different topologies for working with other teams in your organization, outlined as follows:
- Development and operations collaboration
- Shared operations
- DevOps as a service
- DevOps advocacy
- Site reliability engineering (SRE)
- Container driven
You will recognize some of these, possibly from your own organization. More do exist, though, and all of them are well documented with posters, available to purchase from DevOps Topologies (https://web.devopstopologies.com/).
Important note
It would be commonplace for you to start your transformation journey aligning to one of the preceding topologies and then switch to another model once you are mature enough. There is nothing wrong with this approach and in most scenarios this would lend itself to a...