Mini-book: How to choose tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery
OPTIMIZING SOFTWARE TOOL SELECTION FOR LEARNING, COLLABORATION, AUTOMATION, AND TEAM DYNAMICS
Modern approaches to software tool selection go way beyond the simple checklists of yesteryear.
When choosing tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CD), high-performing organisations know to take into account the social dynamics of the organisation and the trajectory of the rapidly-evolving public cloud vendors.
In this report, we help you to choose tools in a way that emphasises collaboration, automation, learning, reproducibility, and the relationship between teams and software (Conway's Law).
In this mini-book:
Overview – choosing tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery
Choose tools in a way that enables collaboration
Favour tools with APIs for automation
Understand the learning challenges for staff
Avoid special tools that exist only in one environment
Making use of Conway’s Law for tool choices
Sample pages
About the author
Matthew Skelton is the co-author of the book Team Topologies. He specializes in Continuous Delivery, operability, and organization dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.
Matthew Skelton
