Post "Accelerate": Why are we still failing at adopting DevOps in the Enterprise? - Ignite Version

24 years of agile, 17 years of DevOps and 6 years after ““Accelerate”” got published we see enterprises doing business as usual reaping no real benefits of either agile nor DevOps. Reflecting back on 10 years as a principal consultant and cloud solution architect at Microsoft working with practically all the major Danish enterprises and a big number of European ones, I want to share my views on why enterprises fail at adopting DevOps and what we should be doing to change that.

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1. Post "Accelerate": Why are we still failing at adopting DevOps in the Enterprise? Rasmus Lystrøm Chief Disruptor at Microsoft Denmark DevOps Days Zürich 2025
2. 2018 Irrefutable proof that DevOps works better
3. [O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. Melvin Conway How Do Committees Invent?, 1967
4. The C-Suite CEO CFO COO CHRO CMO CIO
5. silo /ˈsaɪ loʊ / noun : a[n enterprise-grade] security device to prevent the accidental transfer of knowledge from one department to another. Heidi Waterhouse The Devil’s DevOps, Devopsdays Seattle 2019
6. The C-Suite 2.0 Executive Human Resources Finance Operating Marketing Information CEO CFO CHRO COO CMO CIO CTO CISO CCO CQO CTO CIO CDO CSO CDO CAIO CRAIO Technology Information Security Communications Quality Transformation Innovation Digital Strategy Data AI Responsible AI DevOps Team
7. Enterprises resort to siloed DevOps
8. Platform Engineering https://pdxparent.com/pdx-bowling-alleys/
9. A platform is a set of tools an IT organization makes for itself Christin Gorman Why are you making a new platform?, Copenhagen DevFest 2023
10. We have a culture [in development] of ‘you build it, you run it’ Enterprise Operations – typically a CCoE – exempting themselves of liability
11. Individuals and interactions Working software Customer collaboration Responding to change
13. Businesspeople and developers [and operations] must work together daily throughout the project. Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
14. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
15. Loose coupling and microservices
16. Enterprise Architects Prompt: Photo of 10 grumpy old men sitting around a table with enterprise architecture diagrams on boards all around
17. It’s Time to Get Rid of the IT Department Joe Peppard Professor and Academic Director, Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD
18. We must take the fight to the CEO
19. If you are entirely comfortable with your strategy, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good. Robert L. Martin The Big Lie of Strategic Planning (hbr.org)
20. Thank you Resources Blog GitHub LinkedIn The Big Lie of Strategic Planning It’s Time to Get Rid of the IT Department Accelerate Continuous Delivery #NoEstimates Software recipes Why are you making a new platform? When Jeff Bezos's 2-Pizza Teams Fell Short… How Microsoft plans with DevOps