#mainframe chat question 5
What are the challenges of DevOps, and how are leaders addressing them?
The single biggest challenge of DevOps is that our legacy structure and methods are unsuitable for realigning around our value proposition in the fundamental way necessary to achieve all that we can. Said a bit more concisely, “Taylorism” and “Scientific Management,” our default management paradigms, are incompatible with devops, lean, agile, and all next gen business methadology we must embrace to stay relevant. We have a lot of false beliefs we’ve inherited from previous generations of leadership that cause us to do a lot of counterproductive things.

This problem is not technical, it isn’t about process, it isn’t even really about organizational structure — this is really about people, and their beliefs about their work and their place in the organization; those things for which they will be rewarded and punished, and the things that caused the experiences that created this set of beliefs.
In other words: organizational culture.
Sadly I think most organizations are not yet in a place to address this at all, either unaware of it, unaware that this is the most common reason transformations, and indeed, any modernization effort, fail — and even if they do, have no idea how to go about addressing it.
There is a reason we in DevOps say DevOps addresses three things, and put them in this order:
- People
- Process
- Tools
There is a saying I’ve heard. “Changing the world starts with looking in the mirror.”
Then another saying applies. “The journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single step.”
All answers here: https://medium.com/@geek_king/answers-from-idgtechtalk-mainframe-chat-on-devops-d853cf3d786e
