Read insight from13 industry leaders of how adopting automation and implementing Continuous Delivery (CD) within the production schedule, DevOps teams can release higher quality software more quickly. Learn more about how to flip the switch to Continuous Delivery in our latest ebook: http://www.bmc.com/forms/jobs-as-code-continuous-delivery-devops-ebook.html?cid=sc-DBA_DevOps_Innov_FC_SC_Top_Rank_DevOps_eBook-ND-03-f-05252017&cc=sc&elqcid=3082&sfcid=70114000002L2gB&emid=3153

1. Flip the
Switch to
Continuous
Delivery

2. Let’s Talk Continuous Delivery
In under a decade, DevOps has
risen from a fringe practice to a
crucial discipline needed for reliable
software delivery. While DevOps
has increased the speed of software
delivery broadly, the efficiencies
gained have now hit a standstill for
most.
By adopting automation and
implementing Continuous Delivery
(CD) within the production schedule,
DevOps teams can release higher
quality software more quickly.
Don’t believe us? Read on to see
how top DevOps experts make this
dream reality.
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3. Stephen Thair
Co-Founder of
DevOpsGuys
Marc Hornbeek
Principal Consultant,
DevOps for Trace3
Steve Brown
Director, DevOps
Solutions N.A. at Lenovo
JPMorgenthal
CTO, Application Services,
DXC Technology
Jason Hand
Author of O'Reilly's
#ChatOps Book
Matthew Woolly
Owner, Woolly Mammoth
Limited
T. Devon Artis
WS Cloud Devops
Consultant at Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of North Carolina
Daroga Yadav
DevOps Lead at Cognizant
Wesley Sluss
Senior DevOps Engineer
at FiscalNote, Inc
Nicole Forsgren, PhD
CEO and Chief , DevOps Research
and Assessment (DORA)
Mark Stocker
Co-Founder at Frontfive.io
Dominica DeGrandis
Director of Training & Coaching
@LeanKit
Costa Galazios
Sr. DevOps Engineer at
Golden Frog, GmbH
13 of the Brightest DevOps Industry Experts Share Their Insight

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Marc Hornbeek
Principal Consultant - DevOps for Trace3,
and Author for The DevOps Institute
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“Enterprises implementing DevOps and Continuous
Delivery pipelines are twice as likely to exceed their
profitability, market share and productivity goals. Yet, just
a small minority of enterprises are achieving this kind of
performance. Many struggle to realize DevOps and CD at all.
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Steve Brown
Director, DevOps Solutions
N.A. at Lenovo
''
The faster an organization can deliver code end-to-end
in the development processes, the faster they can get
their product to market and satisfy customer demand.
The results are lower operational costs and higher
profitability. With effective tools, infrastructure
and good collaboration, there are very few risks. An
organization risks its future if delivery is not fast.
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Automation has played a major role in
reducing low-value repetitive work, but the
real value is driven from collaboration driving
greater efficiency and effectiveness.
''
Stephen Thair
Co-Founder of DevOpsGuys
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JP Morgenthal
CTO, Application Services,
DXC Technology
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Fostering a culture of Continuous Delivery first
requires that there be support and investment for
Continual Improvement.
With regard to software development, this means
being able to release to production in a stream-like
fashion versus a rock-like manner. That is, Continuous
Delivery should flow like a stream rather than make a
ripple or thud as a rock dropping every so often.
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Jason Hand
Author of O'Reilly's #ChatOps Book
and ChatOps For Dummies, Evangelist
for VictorOps
''
Focusing on providing CI/CD alone doesn't provide
much value unless the organizational culture is setup
to embrace it. Encouraging more collaboration,
transparency, measuring as much as possible, as well
as automation allows for conditions to exist where
CI/CD efforts can emerge and be embraced.
Above all, Continuous “Improvement" should be the
focus.
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9. Matthew Woolly
Owner, Woolly Mammoth Limited
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''
We are increasingly arriving at a time where
Continuous Delivery is becoming the gold standard.
Anyone without it is getting left behind.
Happy developers make good products.
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T. Devon Artis
WS Cloud Devops Consultant at Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
''Continuous Delivery is a shift that touches the
entire organization so before the shift can be
made, there must be buy-in from the entire
organization on what it means for them, the
desired outcome, and how to measure.
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Wesley Sluss
Senior DevOps Engineer
at FiscalNote, Inc
''
To flip the switch requires a renaissance.
Not only will the architecture change, but so does
the culture, collaboration of engineers, workflow, and
approach to design. Those are often overlooked and
are paramount to the survival of flipping the switch.
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Costa Galazios
Sr. DevOps Engineer at Golden Frog, GmbH
''
It's not so much flipping a switch as it is a
metamorphosis; a paradigm shift in how
an organization approaches the journey
code takes from the developer's mind to a
production environment.
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To make the shift, developers must release code
regularly and their environment must be reliable for daily
production turn. Something like base code should be in
all the environments so it can be in sync when the latest
code is moved to production.
Daroga Yadav
DevOps Lead at Cognizant
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Nicole Forsgren, PhD
CEO and Chief | DevOps Research and
Assessment (DORA)
''
Three things that are important to Continuous Delivery, regardless of
the tooling your team chooses to use, are:
1. Comprehensive, fast, and reliable test and deployment automation
2. Trunk-based development and continuous integration
3. Application code and app and system configuration all in version
control
DevOps and Continuous Delivery processes have a strong heritage
from lean management practices.
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CD is hard, and you will fail along the way. The
balance of speed of change and experimentation
with uncomfortable stakeholders with SLA's to
maintain around uptime, stability and availability often
brings some tough conversations and stakeholder
management. Stick with it and measure success.
Mark Stocker
Co-Founder @ frontfive.io - the
DevOps, Cloud Hosting and
Continuous Delivery Experts
Mark Stocker
Co-Founder @ frontfive.io
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Dominica DeGrandis
Director of Training & Coaching
@LeanKit
''
Big change is hard. The bigger the change,
the more things that can go wrong.
Fast feedback provides the benefit of
discovering if what you're delivering is
valuable or not. To remove roadblocks on
your Continuous Delivery journey, go with
small batch size.
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