Leading DevOps

I have been racking my brain on how to scale DevOps across a company or enterprise.  If you have any thoughts please let me know. Some options Force everyone to read Phoenix Project Target DoJo model Internal DevOps days Embed DevOps coaches in every team Create documentation and point everyone to it Have your CTO make them do learn it Do team by team DevOps maturity assessments Use security or compliance requirements to force teams to automate delivery Make one team really awesome and let others come asking for the awesomeness.

After God and family, I am very thankful for DevOps.  It is opening the eyes of many companies across the world.   People are seeing really how awful IT has been the last ten or so years.   We need to keep leading the way to a better life for IT professionals.

DevOps is about continuous improvement.  Sometimes changes are easy and everyone loves them.  You implement them quickly and everyone is happy.  Sometimes people hate the change and it dies.  Most of the time it is a combination of fans, skeptics and who cares. How should you present changes you are passionate about?  Here are some steps to successfully proposing changes. 1. Start with the goals your are trying to achieve.  Unless your goals are way off base, people usually can't argue with goals that make the future better. 2. Present solutions to the goals as a "recommendation".  Who knows, someone may have a better idea or improvement in your change. 3. Draw a picture, workflow, diagram or something that you can show people. 4. Watch your audience to see who is getting your message and who are not. 5.  Ask who understands the resolution.  Don't ask if anyone has questions or who doesn't get it.  Ask a question that makes people...