Learn to design implement measure and improve DevOps programs that are tailored to your
organization. This concise guide assists leaders who are accountable for the rapid development
of high-quality software applications. In DevOps for Digital Leaders deep collective
experience on both sides of the dev-ops divide informs the global thought leadership and
penetrating insights of the authors all three of whom are cross-portfolio DevOps leaders at CA
Technologies. Aruna Ravichandran Kieran Taylor and Peter Waterhouse analyze the
organizational benefits costs freedoms and constraints of DevOps. They chart the coordinated
strategy of organizational change metrics lean thinking and investment that an enterprise
must undertake to realize the full potential of DevOps and reach the sweet spot where
accelerating code deployments drive increasing customer satisfaction revenue and
profitability. Digital leaders are charged to bridge the dev-ops disconnect if their
organizations are to survive and flourish in a business world increasingly differentiated by
the degree to which dynamic application software development harmonizes with operational
resilience and reliability. This short book applies the DevOps perspective to the competitive
challenge faced by every high-performance IT organization today of integrating and automating
open source cloud and enterprise tools processes and techniques across the software
development life cycle from requirements to release. What You Will Learn: Remove dependencies
and constraints so that parallel practices can accelerate the development of defect-free
software Automate continuous delivery across the software life cycle to eliminate release
bottlenecks manual labor waste and technical debt accumulation Generate virtualized
production-style testing of applications through real-time behavioral analytics Adopt agile
practices so operations teams can support developer productivity with automated feedback
streamline infrastructure monitoring spot and resolve operations issues before they impact
production and improve customer experience Identify the DevOps metrics appropriate to your
organization and integrate DevOps with your existing best practices and investment Who This
Book Is For: IT leaders in large companies and government agencies who have any level of
responsibility for the rapid development of high-quality software applications. The secondary
readership is members of development and operations teams security professionals and service
managers.
