--- title: "What is Enterprise DevOps?" url: "https://pipelinedriven.org/article/what-is-enterprise-devops.md" canonical: "https://pipelinedriven.org/article/what-is-enterprise-devops" published: "2016-10-29T00:51:34.028000+00:00" updated: "2016-10-29T09:53:23.847000+00:00" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "To understand Enterprise DevOps, we have to first define what \"regular\" DevOps is. Here is my current definition of DevOps. Let's call it \"DevOps 0.1\" What…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # What is Enterprise DevOps? 29 October 2016 · 1 min read · Roy Osherove To understand Enterprise DevOps, we have to first define what "regular" DevOps is. Here is my current definition of DevOps. Let's call it "DevOps 0.1" ### What is DevOps? (Version 0.1) DevOps is a culture that drives and enables the following behaviors: - Treating Infrastructure and code as the same thing: Software - That Software is built and deployed to achieve fast feedback cycles - Those feedback cycles are achieved through continuous delivery pipelines - Those pipelines contain the automated coded policy of the organization  - Those pipelines are as human free as possible - Humans share knowledge and work creatively with work centered around pipelines  - Knowledge silos are broken in favor of supporting a continuous pipeline flow DevOps is the Agile operating model of modern IT, and is centered around the idea of a continuous delivery pipeline as the main building block of an Agile organization. ## DevOps Metrics DevOps is based on lean development concepts, as well as the lean startup movement's ideas. As such, the "**build, measure, learn**", the scientific method mantra, is very relevant to DevOps. That's why metrics play a very important role in a DevOps culture. They help determine gradual success over time in DevOps transformations. Here are the main metrics being used in DevOps based organizations today: 1. [Mean time to change](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/devops-metric-definition-mean-time-to-change-mttc-vs-change-lead-time) 2. [Mean time to recovery](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/devops-metric-mean-time-to-recovery-mttr-definition-and-reasoning) 3. [Frequency of Release](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/devops-metric-frequency-of-releases-definition) 4. [Defect Rates](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/devops-metric-amount-of-defects-and-issues-definition) --- ## What is Enterprise DevOps? Enterprise DevOps is the application of DevOps values in an environment that contains any of the following: - Many inter-dependent and related systems and sub systems, software and teams that rely on each other - Monolithic systems and/or static software/hardware environments - Lengthy Approval Gates or change control processes - Security, financial medical or other compliance requirements - Lengthy waterfall based processes among multiple teams and stake holders - Workflows that are mostly manual and error prone across multiple teams or stakeholders In order to create a pipeline-centered organization that is able to seize opportunities in the marketplace quickly. --- --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/