Why DevOps is So Painful for Big Companies

StewBeans writes: A recent poll of IT professionals found that DevOps adoption is on the rise, jumping from 66 to 74 percent adoption — 81 percent among enterprises. Despite this jump, more traditional enterprises are having a hard time getting DevOps right and often run into a number of problems, like lack of common tools, collaboration, or culture change. That's because to do it successfully, organizations have to change a deeply embedded mindset and processes that contradict what DevOps is. An article by Peter Buonora, enterprise architect for BJ's Wholesale Club, points out, "Compared to the traditional IT mindset, which is about trying to minimize change, question change, and manage it to a point where the number of overall changes is reduced and we lock down the environment, it’s not hard to see that the two approaches are on a collision course." He offers a few DevOps approaches for traditional enterprises, which include setting up a dedicated team to demonstrate business value, and bringing in new talent that have lived and breathed DevOps in a previous job.