Yes, you have come a long way; yes, things are going much more smoothly; yes, the organization is working more closely together; yes, the Dev and Ops divide is less of a chasm and more of a small crack in the ground; and yes you have almost completed what you set out to do. What you have done is reduce the process of delivering software from something complex, painful and cumbersome to something as simple as the following:
The problems you originally set out to address revolved around the waste within the process of delivering software, the long-winded and pointless processes, the political posturing, and more specifically, the waste that comes from large, infrequent releases. Adopting CD and DevOps has helped you overcome (most of) these problems.
As a result, you will now start to hear comments such as we can deploy quickly, so we must...
