Are We There Yet? Signposts On Your Journey To Awesome
summary
Survey data from the State of DevOps Report (23,000+ responses) shows high performers deploy on-demand with lead time <1 hour, 46× more frequent deploys and recover in under an hour — 96× faster MTTR — with change-fail rates near 0–15%. Case studies include Capital One using Hygeia and assessments to get a 20× release frequency jump in two months with no incident increase. Measure system telemetry plus culture (Westrum), watch unplanned work and the J‑curve.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Start
- 0:44Why trust me?
- 6:55Direction, NOT destination
- 7:09DevOps Direction?
- 8:33Our direction in DevOps
- 13:46Is this the DevOps Journey?
- 14:21J curve
- 14:50Some evidence of the curve
- 15:50Can both be true?
- 16:11High Performing organizations are twice as likely to achieve or exceed goals
- 18:42Your DevOps Signposts
- 19:26One final important check
- 21:27Trunk-based development & change approval process
- 22:42Westrum Organizational Culture
- 25:44The hard part
- 25:56Where should I start?
- 26:38So what to do?
- 27:12How to measure?
- 27:33Types of measures to collect
- 27:50Data about systems and process from
- 29:50More complete system instrumentation might tell us this
- 30:15Our people might tell us this
- 31:07A real world example: DOES SF 2016, Topo Pal, Capital One
- 31:28Data about people from people
- 32:39Leadership Necessary but not Sufficient
- 33:26What can you do?
- 34:05What we've talked about
- 34:15For more metrics and data
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