[lmickh]

Would argue that you have a tools/service team. The fact that you failed to mention changing what devs and sysadmins consider when "focusing 100%" on their role indicates that what you are talking about isn't the concept of DevOps in the article.

Saying you have a DevOps team is like saying you have Lean team, a Theory of Constraints team, or a Just-in-time manufacturing team. DevOps doesn't say that devs shouldn't write code any more then Theory of Constraints says a guy that paints car hoods should be building brake pads. It is about the fact that they should work together to ensure the organization as a whole meets the goals. Not as isolated units that only prioritize their own goals.

I've seen the same flak about Agile and scrum roles for the same reason. People think they can buy the DevOps/Agile/whatever. Only difference with DevOps is rest is that it is getting more noise.