"One of those rare books that structures both technology and human improvement aspects within an enterprise context while giving hands on advice on how measure and visualise your devops journey maturity" - Patrick Debois
"Interesting. Very critical for any transformation. Gets to ask the right questions by locking in all Dev and Ops guys in a room and thrashing out what to do. Definite read." - John Willis
Assessing DevOps is about leveraging quantitative methods in analyzing IT from DevOps perspective deterministically, as opposed to providing subjective recommendations. This helps the consultant to successfully map IT strategy to implementation, and predict the outcome even before embarking on the DevOps journey. With numerous examples, templates, questions and stories; business and industry coverage on DevOps; in-depth explanation of concepts and emerging IT areas; ready references on business and IT metrics; and three extensive industry case studies; the book is an invaluable tool and reference for the practicing DevOps professional.
The authors have a vast experience in the field of DevOps, having conducted large scale DevOps assessments and transformations across organizations, including truly global firms across industry verticals. With each of them having more than twenty years of experience in IT, the approach has been uniquely formulated by them to map and plan out any organization's IT strategy to on-ground implementation.