The second in a series of SlideShares for IT managers who are bringing Development and Operations together. If you want to move faster, scale up, and build trust between the Dev and Ops team, you need DevOps. For more info, read the full white paper: http://info.puppetlabs.com/devops-guide-for-it-managers.html

1. Why your team needs DevOps
Leave dysfunctional practices behind.

2. You want to move faster. You
want to scale up. You want to
leave dysfunctional modes of
working behind. DevOps is
your answer.
You need change

3. Customers demand more. You
have to get ahead of
competitors. You need to
deliver changes faster.
Operations teams using agile
software development
practices deliver new features
faster. Teams using one-off
scripts, spreadsheets and
manual methods struggle to
keep up.
Move faster

4. More computers and services
enter our lives every day. This
extra compute power brings
extra responsibility: more
computers, devices and
services to manage, maintain,
secure and monitor.
Automation and other DevOps
methods help you scale faster
and more efficiently — and
even create self-service for
devs and others in your org.
Scaling up

5. You know the story: the dev
team finishes a new app or
website and heads off to
celebrate, leaving ops to figure
out how to deploy it.
Blaming devs isn't fair,
though. They did what the
business asked them to do.
What's needed is alignment
between Dev, Ops and the
business. That's what DevOps
is for.
The blame game

6. Lack of alignment creates a
negative feedback cycle — and
lack of empathy — between Dev
and Ops. Then it's all about
SLAs and contract
negotiations.
Once both teams understand
better what the business needs,
and what the other team needs,
you can move from contract
negotiation to collaboration.
And everyone's happier.
Negative feedback cycle

7. The push to move and scale 10
times faster rarely means you
get 10 times more ops team
members.
Backlogs develop, and
developers get frustrated. They
turn to cloud services, stop
making their needs known to
operations, and shadow IT
emerges, beyond the control of
ops. It's expensive, and risky
for the business.
Shadow IT

8. Align development and
operations with each other, and
you can fix — or even prevent
— all these issues. No more
silos, no nasty surprises.
DevOps is the answer

9. For practical tips on getting DevOps buy-in from your
operations team, the development team and executives,
check out the DevOps Guide for IT Managers.
More in the DevOps for IT
managers series:
DevOps Principles for IT Managers
Get Executive Backing for DevOps
Bringing Dev and Ops Together