Case study – shared goals, vision, and engagement

“Planning and processes need to include all stakeholders, ideally in the same team, but where everyone needs to be working towards the same goal, which is secure design, development and maintenance of an application. A critical architectural principle for streamlining DevOps efforts therefore is a shared understanding of goals.”

– Dr. Wendy Ng, Principal Cloud Security Architect, OneWeb

In an interview for this book, Principal Cloud Security Architect Dr. Wendy Ng shared with us a particularly insightful anecdote. Though the context overlaps somewhat with application development (coming as it does from a DevOps perspective), we thought it was particularly apropos to share here as it illustrates unambiguously the value that is brought about through documentation efforts and communication exercises (for example, communication with and validation of goals/precepts by stakeholders).

She told us a little...