Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the foundation of the DevOps evolution’s WoW, combining business enterprise agility and DevOps organizing principles in a way that proves the ability to reconcile the two concepts agnostically. We went through four examples of Agile adoptions by incumbents (basic Agile, SAFe, the Spotify model, and value streams/clusters), relating them to banking context adoption examples. By doing so, we discovered similarities in their organizational structures in terms of principles and objectives. We also discovered several similarities across four dimensions from a DevOps evolution perspective and explained how those similarities enable the concepts to be agnostically reconciled. We also mentioned the principles of autonomy and self-organization and provided arguments on why they cannot be perfectly achieved in an incumbent’s DevOps context. Continuing, we provided an 11-step guide, based on a proven practice, on how to design the organizing...