[willthames]

Do you have an Operations function in your organisation? As really DevOps is development and operations working together to meet business goals.

If you do have an Operations person, you should be working together on things like how you can improve the deployment process to make it easy for new software to get into production.

If you don't have an Operations person, then you will have to bridge that gap. And that means learning what things make software operable - logging, monitorability, availability, resilience etc.

Web Operations, Continuous Delivery, Release It are three good starting points.

I gave a talk at Devops Days Brisbane on How to Design and Develop Software for Operations. I don't claim it to be complete but it comes from years of experience supporting critical applications

http://willthames.github.io/2014/08/10/devops-days-brisbane-...