Bob Dylan once wrote “The times they are a changing” DevOps is a cultural and professional movement that improves IT's time to market through better communication, collaboration, integration and automation. It is the intersection of development (software engineering), technology operations and quality assurance (QA). DevOps is as much about a different way of thinking as it is a different way of behaving. Dev-Ops is a solution to a business problem - one that requires faster deployments, more innovation and tighter integration with all stakeholders. It is as much of a visionary shift as it is an opportunity to leverage build-deploy-operate technologies. Visionary shifts require that an organization Create a sense of urgency, to stay stagnant is to fall behind the competition. Form a guiding coalition, get buy in from senior leadership and collaboration with middle management. Create a vision. Apply agile tenets to the entire service lifecycle, breakdown complex