Why We Need DevOps Now: A 14-Year Study Of High-Performing IT Organizations

Gene Kim,

Room : Starvine 10 and 11

Subject : Process

Breakout : Leadership

Gene Kim has been studying high-performing IT organizations since 1999. He is the author of the highly acclaimed "Visible Ops Handbook," "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win," and founder of Tripwire, Inc.

He will be presenting his findings from an ongoing study of how high-performing IT organizations simultaneously deliver stellar service levels and deliver fast flow of new features into the production environment. To successfully deliver against what on the surface appear to be conflicting objectives, (i.e. preserving service levels while introducing significant amounts of change into production), requires creating a highly-coordinated collection of teams where Development, QA, IT Operations, as well as Product Management and Information Security genuinely work together to solve business objectives.

Gene will describe what successful transformations look like, and how those transformations were achieved from a software development and service operations perspective. He will draw upon fourteen years of research of high-performing IT organizations, as well as work he's done since 2008 to help some of the largest Internet companies increase feature flow and production stability through applications of DevOps principles.