DevOps

DevOps is the way a group of people, who typically hold different roles, skills, and responsibilities, work together to achieve some goal. It’s a collaboration protocol, and asking one person or one team to “do all the collaborating” makes no sense. Put another way, if you adopted DevOps because you had a silo problem, creating a new “DevOps” silo is unlikely to be an effective solution. (1)

Widely accepted definitions of DevOps:

•     CALMS (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing)

•     The Three Ways (Flow aka "Systems Thinking", Amplify Feedback Loops, Continual Experimentation and Learning)

•     Accelerate metrics (Lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, change failure %)

The DBA Role in DevOps

"We simply don’t give DBAs enough credit for all the tasks they do beyond writing queries."

Agile

The Agile Manifesto

Scrum / Kanban / Scrumban

Unplanned Work

Tools