Applying the Three Ways of DevOps to Accelerate Your Organization

DevOps Essentials

Introduction

The emergence of DevOps has marked a seismic shift in the software world in recent years. The allure is the opportunity it offers to organizations to increase their levels of productivity by orders of magnitude and outpace their competitors to win in the marketplace.

However, DevOps draws from a wide array of areas of research and represents their convergence into a broad set of philosophies, practices, and tools. With such a vast body of knowledge to consider, it’s hard to know where to begin when attempting to adopt it.

Fortunately, we can look to DevOps thought leaders to point us in the right direction. First introduced in The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook is the concept of The Three Ways. It captures the conceptual underpinnings of the entire movement. This model is a powerful tool that identifies the characteristics of DevOps maturity and describes the path that your organization can follow to get there.

We’ll be leveraging The Three Ways in this article by examining some practical actions your organization can take while pursuing DevOps maturity. It can help when the purported benefits of DevOps seem elusive. This feeling burdens organizations that struggle with the underlying…