Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale Illustrated Edition

Gary provides a very precise blueprint of how to make Agile/SAFE/DevOps programs successful in large organizations and reap the benefits of accelerated productivity. This book will help you build a logical process adoption roadmap, clarify expected stakeholder commitments at different stages, discuss the plan with all the stakeholders and get their buy in before you proceed. If you are already further down this path and feel the heat, this is great guide to chart your course correction. The best part is... this is not an article forcibly converted to a book. Every page advances the reasoning and the knowledge.. Absolutely recommended for any leader involved in Agile transformation..

This is an excellent book, easy to read, a good overview of the issues of CICD and how to overcome them in an high level manner. That's perhaps the only critique, no enough details, helicopter view mostly. But that's fine for people with already a good grasp on Agile development. This book confirms, kind of echo chamber, what all Agile mindset aficionados think. For those developing for specific hardware, there is a chapter about emulator vs. simulator that is very interesting in this particular context.

Building an organization that can consistently deliver high quality software at scale is not easy. It's challenging at best. This book offers practical information that any leader can use to measurably improve their software delivery process. This isn't just another book about agile and dev ops. This book speaks to the unique challenges of changing culture in companies that want to move faster but are stuck with traditional thinking and legacy systems. Leading the Transformation provides the principles for transforming an organization as well as the practical details that can only come actually having lived it. This is a book that I know I will come back to.

This was a goo case study of how HP home printer firmware division rolled out agile. It was also very repetitive.

I liked the fact that the book focused on how to mature the environment to get to DevOps. Pragmatism and focus on continuous improvement rather than trying to force by the Agile book. If you are thinking about DevOps or you think you already it, important you check this book out.It is clear that the authors' experience is centered around product, similar experience applies to IT application development. Similar is not same. Would be better to articulate the distinction.

This is the _perfect_ book to share with executive sponsors and stakeholders. It is short (114 pages), but it covers the issues well - including technical issues, and makes the point that leadership cannot "manage by metrics" - they need to understand the technical issues, at least at a high level. A great case study because HP has both server software and embedded software - i.e., products - this is not just a story of websites.

Fair value for the price. I read a sum up of this history in "the Devop's handbook" and I feel it more exciting there, but still the ideas proposed here are eye-opener, especially because they implemented Devops practices on firmware projects which are more complex that a regular software development.

A game plan to maximize business impact through modernizing engineering systems. Reading Leading the Transformation was like reading our own play book used at Microsoft. If big companies applied these techniques it would be revolutionary to the software industry. Forcing quality with a single branch and immediate integration on the trunk is a difficult and necessary step. In addition running thousands of automated tests across a team of hundreds takes specialized infrastructure and processes. Good stuff..