DevOps – A Business Perspective: Understanding the Management, Principles & Value of DevOps
DevOps – A Business Perspective provides a structured introduction to DevOps for professionals involved in information technology and business management. Rather than focusing primarily on automation tools, programming techniques, or specific technologies, the book examines DevOps as a broader organizational and management approach.
The book takes a structured approach to explaining the foundations of DevOps, helping readers understand where DevOps came from, why it emerged, what conditions support its adoption, and how its principles are reflected in practical ways of working.
DevOps from a Management Perspective
Explore DevOps beyond individual technologies and automation tools. The book focuses on the management aspects of DevOps and provides a fundamental framework for understanding how its concepts, prerequisites, practices, and principles connect with one another.
Origins, Principles & Prerequisites
Learn about the origins of DevOps, the factors that contributed to its emergence, and the key prerequisites needed to establish a strong DevOps foundation. The discussion connects these foundations with the practices and principles that shape DevOps.
Understanding Business Value
Develop an understanding of how DevOps concepts relate to business objectives and organizational needs. The book helps readers build awareness of DevOps as a management discipline and understand its relevance to technology-driven organizations.
DevOps Practices & Continuous Improvement
Explore the relationship between DevOps principles and practical practices, including the broader organizational direction toward continuous delivery and continuous improvement.
Core DevOps Foundations
DevOps Origins
Management Principles
DevOps Prerequisites
DevOps Practices
Organizational Awareness
Business Value
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Improvement
What You Will Learn
- Understand DevOps from an information technology and management perspective
- Explore the origins and development of DevOps
- Understand why DevOps emerged and why its adoption became important
- Identify key prerequisites for establishing DevOps practices
- Understand the principles underlying DevOps practices
- Explore how DevOps concepts and practices relate to one another
- Build a fundamental understanding of DevOps as an organizational approach
- Understand the value of DevOps for business
- Develop a foundation for continuous delivery and continuous improvement
Foundation for DevOps Certification
This book serves as core literature for the EXIN DevOps Foundation certification. The Foundation level focuses on understanding basic DevOps concepts, how they relate to one another, and the value DevOps can provide to a business.
DevOps Certification Path
The DevOps certification structure referenced by the book progresses from DevOps Foundation to DevOps Professional and DevOps Master. These levels address increasingly advanced areas including DevOps practices, team integration, organizational change, continuous delivery, and continuous improvement.
Build a Strong DevOps Foundation
With its structured and management-focused approach, this guide is useful for technology managers, IT professionals, business stakeholders, and readers who want to understand the fundamental ideas behind DevOps and how they connect to organizational and business objectives.
