Summary

As we have seen in this chapter, incumbent banks have certain characteristics and are surrounded by several counterparts operating within the same ecosystem. Those counterparts create an external environment that, along with other factors, puts certain levels of pressure on an incumbent bank and influences its corporate strategy. Incumbent banks, on top of similarities in their external contexts, also have certain similarities in their internal contexts, especially in domains that are relevant to DevOps. The absence of a universal DevOps definition, as we discussed, created the need to establish our own definition for this book, which we have applied to the mobile banking example of outlining the DevOps value proposition for the incumbent. Closing the chapter, we discussed the importance of two elements, relevance and the 360° nature of enterprise DevOps adoptions, through examples. By now, you have built a good understanding of the book’s main actor and its context, having defined DevOps and introduced two new core DevOps adoption elements.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the early-stage phases that the incumbent needs to follow in defining and establishing the fundamental direction of its DevOps enterprise adoption.