NOTE: This post was originally published on djgoosen.blogspot.com Monday, May 11, 2015.
As we transition our organizations into the DevOps model, it’s helpful to spend at least a little time thinking about the three-dimensional space that our engineering and operations teams are sharing.
We’ll compare two photos of the same place at different moments in time:
The first of these photos was taken at our office recently and implies that there are two teams; the second was taken today and implies that there is really just one team. A wall sends a message, whether we want it to or not. “Tearing down walls” is a common metaphor, but the act of actually, physically tearing one down is also a pretty empowering statement to the entire team to always be thinking and acting as a single, collective, AWESOME unit. The second photo is a work in progress, just as many companies’ DevOps transitions may be. However, it’s undoubtedly forward progress.