DevOps for the Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations

by Mirco Hering

Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Most have evolved over the years by taking lessons from traditional or legacy manufacturing: creating a production process that puts the emphasis on the process instead of the people performing the tasks, allowing the organization to treat people like resources to try to achieve high-quality outcomes. But those practices and ideas are failing modern IT, where collaboration and creativeness are required to achieve high-performing, high-quality success.

Mirco Hering, a thought leader in managing IT within legacy organizations, lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers, showing them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver's seat to propel their organization to success.

But just having the right methods and tools will not magically transform an organization; the cultural change that is the hardest is also the most impactful. Using principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.

Genres: Technology, Nonfiction, Management, Business, Technical, Audiobook, Leadership

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 3, 2018

Reviews

[William Anderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

While overall well written this book details more the basics of DevOps rather than organization/transformational strategies themselves. The author however is great with words and delivers many well crafted and quotable phrases. If you are in devops, familiar with distributed systems yourself, and know your way around a container you are better off looking elsewhere for technical resources, and if you are trying to transform a legacy org from a strategic POV this would not be the place to start.

[Jari Pirhonen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent, compact introduction to agile IT covering both technical and people aspects.

[Miguel Alho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great book from the IT revolution library. This one is packed with Mirco's experience and knowledge of dos and don'ts in adopting the devops mindset in the enterprise. Lots of actionables in this one, with well layed out exercices to move forward with!

[Jeremy Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book covers a lot of the basics of DevOps. Not too technical or in the weeds. There wasn't a ton of new stuff for me but I've been engrossed in this world for a while. I rate it so high because if this had been one of the first books on DevOps that I had read, it would have been immensely helfpul.

That's not to say I didn't learn anything from it. Lots of action items here and you can tell the book comes from experience rather than theory. It's a "hard knocks" type book and valuable to read for any DevOps professional.

[Nestor Zamora · Rating 4 out of 5]

Knowledge level: Intermediate.
Audience: for everyone trying to understand how DevOps and Agility can impact your organization System.
Review: After reading multiple books related to DevOps and how to improve the way we work, I think this book differentiate itself from other on the systemic approach it takes, and helps understand how you can impact the different components of your system with DevOps. It covers way more than just your SDLC. Just consider that even though the book has a systemic approach it doesn't covers areas like Culture or Lidership.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

A clear and short book on DevOps. Far more than just another buzzword, DevOps is the next evolution from traditional software development. 20 years ago many of these practices were considered unnecessary and controversial. In the long term, this caused multiple projects to fail and the eventual failure of the business. Automated testing, releases, code reviews, etc., are required for successful products.

[Ranjan R. Lamichhane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for understanding the DevOps, especially for transforming older organization to the new practice.

[Maximiliano Curia]

This book should be titled DevOps for top level management, and even then, you might want to read some lean books instead. I feel that I was not the target audience, so no stars.

[James Wasson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great book for understanding the overall picture with Devops in the modern world. I enjoyed it, but didn't keep anything from it as I read new material.

[Kristofer Carlson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a useful book for anyone seeking to implement DevOps, with one important caveat: you already need to understand DevOps before reading this book. This book assumes you understand the basics already, and are ready to begin moving away from a traditional manufacturing-based system of software development into a modern, agile, and automated system. The author tends to remind the reader of concepts they should already know -- like the importance of small batch sizes -- and quickly moves on to discuss their practical implementations. I recommend this book to management as they begin to explore DevOps, and to the practitioner as they begin to actualize and implement a DevOps environment.

[Vėjas Galvoje · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kas yra DevOps? Su kuo jį reikėtų „valgyti“ ir ką jis mums duoda? Visus atsakymus į tokio tipo ir bet kokio tipo rasi šioje knygoje. Tikrai pakankamai smulkiai ir aiškiai sudėliota. Manau ši knyga turėtų būti būtina visiems programuotojams, kurie planuoja arba dirba aukštesniam lygyje nei mėgėjo. Smagių patarimų vyrukas pridalino, labai daug papildomos medžiagos, kuri tikrai pagyvina skaitymą. Daug dalykų labai lengva perkelti tiesiai į kasdieninius veiksmus ir nuo to visi mes kursim kokybiškesnį/geresnį/patvaresnį ir visokį kitokį -esnį produktą.

[Mac · Rating 3 out of 5]

In a lot of ways, this felt like a book report on a lot of different DevOps literature (often without the references).

This is a good book for someone who is new to the scene and needs a quick overview of a lot of the topics. But the writing is a little hard to get through.

[Eduardo Piairo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great balance between theoretical context and practical application. Give you a good overview about big companies idiosyncrasies regarding software development and strategies (with good level of detail) to improve the environment, people and technologies.

[Brian Bohanon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is well organized and brings together a lot of key concepts found in various other sources.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good coverage of the key concepts of DevOps.

[Gautam · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is a very good read, very relatable and I am sure it has good learning for noobs as well as experienced ones.