--- title: "What is Enterprise DevOps?" url: "https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops.md" canonical: "https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "What is Enterprise DevOps? The application of DevOps values in organizations with interdependent systems, monoliths, approval gates and compliance requirements." 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? Enterprise DevOps [**Enterprise DevOps**](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/what-is-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 an organization that operates through automated pipelines of continuous delivery. [![](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/yt/K6ZQxh5hzWg.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ZQxh5hzWg) Roy Osherove - Patterns & Anti Patterns for Scaling & Enabling DevOps Adoption · YouTube [Learn More](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/what-is-enterprise-devops) ## Latest posts [More posts →](https://pipelinedriven.org/article) 1. [Metrics](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/metrics) 11 July 2022 ### [A Metrics Framework for Continuous Delivery](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/a-metrics-framework-for-continuous-delivery) Here’s a framework I like to start with when I discuss what types of metrics can help or harm you in your journey to continuous delivery: Lagging Indicators At the organizational level, unit tests are usually part of a… 2. [Talks & Events](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/talks) 11 July 2022 Video ### [Video: Lies, Damned Lies and Metrics](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/video-lies-damned-lies-and-metrics) I spoke about what types of metrics and KPIs (including OKRs) you can use with continuous delivery, and which ones you might want to stop using, during my talk at GOTO 2019. Also discussed: Leading and Lagging… 3. [Build Patterns](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/build) 19 April 2020 ### [If a Build Takes 4 hours, Run It Every 4 Hours](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/if-builds-take-4-hours-run-them-every-4-hours) (Note: You might need to fix your environment bottlenecks first before being able to act on this blog post) Builds (i.e. compile + run tests + deploys + more tests etc…) represent a bottleneck for getting feedback on our… 4. [Enterprise DevOps](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/ent) 6 December 2019 ### [Co-Ops: Enabling True Continuous Delivery with Cooperative Pipelines & Processes (Title Feedback Needed)](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/co-ops-enabling-true-continuous-delivery-with-cooperative-pipelines-amp-processes-title-feedback-needed) “Co-Ops” is a term that one of the attendees at a talk I was giving about cooperative pipelines came up with. I wish I knew his name. I asked him to email me afterwards so I can credit him but he never did. Co-Ops… 5. [Talks & Events](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/talks) 20 November 2019 Video ### [Video: The Pipeline Driven Organization - Enabling True Continuous Delivery (Oredev 2019)](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/video-the-pipeline-driven-organization-enabling-true-continuous-delivery-oredev-2019) Roy Osherove — The Pipeline Driven Organization｜ Øredev 2019 · YouTube 6. [Talks & Events](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/talks) 2 June 2019 ### [Continuous Delivery Israel Meetup - First Meeting June 24 2019](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/continuous-delivery-israel-meetup-first-meeting-june-24-2019) I’m pleased to announce that we will have the first ever meeting Continuous Delivery Israel meetup, in the AWS Floor28 offices in Tel Aviv, June 24th, 2019, at 6PM. The Group’s page is located at CDIsrael.com If you… --- ## 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). 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