An Enterprise DevOps Primer

Wow. The assumptions in this article are deeply misguided. "Modern" doesn't equate to "better" at all. It's dismissive bordering on insulting to the actual people and technology that make our digital world actually work.

This is representative of the "Cargo Cult IT" I see so often these days. IT is so complex that so many people don't even try to understand it - they just read an article on how amazing something is and implement it everywhere. Right or wrong.

IT, like everything else, has to be effective. And to make it work on purpose, somebody has to understand it at a fairly low level. I don't see much of that anymore, even in some cases with the greybeards (yes, I have plenty of grey in my beard).

I guess what I'm trying to say is that this article is all about "what" to do, but it's obvious that the why of things wasn't considered much if at all. Or, to put it another way, it's all about efficiency instead of effectiveness.

You can’t use tools to fix culture and enterprise culture is what prevents 99% of enterprises from embracing a change to DevOps which is itself - a culture and collection of values. This is the same reason the vast majority of enterprises that claim to “practise” Agile - aren’t agile at all.

I used to think they’d catch up, but after 18 years in tech it’s clear now that they can’t and it’s unfortunate that the vast majority of them are too big to fail so we can get rid of so much of the dead weight we could be investing our energy and creativity on.