Driving change from the bottom up

There are multiple levels of influence within a company, starting from the CEO and coming down to the engineer writing code that delivers value to the customer. As a DevOps practitioner, it can sometimes become a challenge to sell ideas or benefits behind adopting a tool or automation that can help the wider team in delivering more value to the customers. This section covers some tips that you could consider to demonstrate the real value of what you are proposing. This is not easy because your level of influence as an individual contributor might not offer you a position to push ideas downwards. But the good part is that you’re in a unique position to actually implement a change at the ground level and quickly validate the idea to demonstrate tangible value. Within this scope, you can easily take the first steps around breathing life into your proposal and see if it works for you. Once it does, it’s time to push it forward. Let’...