Thinking Environments

Transformational technology leaders from many companies across the world assembled at the 2016 DevOps Enterprise Forum to discuss DevOps practices, challenges and best-known methods to help our organizations and our community succeed.

Along with several other leaders, I had the privilege of helping put together a guidance document on DevOps Organizational Models to accelerate business and empower workers. In this free publication by IT Revolution, we take a look at how and why organizations are structured, examine which have characteristics that promote or impede business enabling DevOps practices, and take a deep dive into four different models that began to surface during our research: (1) the traditional functional silo hierarchy, (2) the matrix model, (3) the product platform model and the (X) adaptive organization model.

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Authors

Mark Schwartz, CIO, US Citizenship and Immigration Services

Jason Cox, Director, Systems Engineering, The Walt Disney Company

Jonathan Snyder, Sr. Manager, Service Deployment & Quality, Adobe Systems

Mark Rendell, Principal Director, Accenture

Chivas Nambiar, Director Systems Engineering, Verizon

Mustafa Kapadia, NA DevOps Service Line Leader, IBM

More DevOps guidance documents can be found here: http://itrevolution.com/devops_enterprise_forum_guidance