Bolster the Foundations

This is where we do not do a copy and paste of that first team's foundation. Teams need to build their own foundations. They also need to regularly nurture and bolster their own foundations. And where they are connected by culture and technology, they all need to contribute to their connected underlying foundation.

When we introduced the Open Practice Library in Chapter 2, Introducing DevOps and Some Tools, we explained that this is a community-driven repository of tools. Throughout the book, we've pulled out around 50 of our favorite tools in the Open Practice Library toolbox and explained how we use them together to deliver metrics-based outcomes that matter.

These are not necessarily the practices that every team should use. Just because a set of practices works so well for one team does not mean they will work equally well for every subsequent team. Practices used to build the foundation and navigate around the Mobius Loop need to emerge...