On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Joseph Kern <[email protected]> wrote:

> And here lies the issue with devops at large organizations. You need
> exceptional people (or people willing to be exceptional) for this to work.
>

I agree. If I was trying to pull it off in a larger company (or somewhere
where the sysadmin skillset is already separate from the development one), I
think I'd concentrate on the most important product and make a team of 3-4
devops folks to build and launch it. Repeat with a second team.

I could see 1 devops person making a big difference in a team of 3 or 4
developers and sysadmins *if* they all worked really well together (as in,
they hang out together outside of work and trust one another as personal
friends). Otherwise I think that person wouldn't have enough impact to
matter - we'd be back to an architect "providing direction" and a bunch of
implementors.


> It doesn't scale as easily as ITIL/COBIT.
>

Or at least, it depends on high hiring standards, strongly enforced.
Throwing people at it will not work.

Troy
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