DOES16 San Francisco - DevOps Workshop: Organizational Design

ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN FOR DEVOPS

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES

Model 1: Traditional Functional Silos

Model 2: Matrix Model 3: Product Model X: Adaptive

MODEL 1: FUNCTIONAL SILOS

MODEL 2A: MATRIX

MODEL 2B: MATRIXEMBEDDED FUNCTIONS

MODEL 3: PRODUCT

MODEL X: ADAPTIVE

SUMMARY EVALUATION

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model X

Promotes DevOps, short lead times

Encourages collaboration and communication (silo defeat communication)

Right kind of accountability (get on the right queue), routing instructions)

Flat organization

Optimize the whole - deal with overall strategy, standards, etc.

Self-organizing overall structure - can it reconfigure itself easily?

Implements any necessary risk mitigation and compliance

Must fit into the rest of the organization

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORSMark Schwartz, CIO, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, mark.schwartz@gmail.com

Jason Cox, Director Systems Engineering, Disney,  jason.cox@disney.com, @jasonacox

Jonathan Snyder, Sr. Manager, Service Deployment & Quality, Adobe Systems, jsnyder@adobe.com

Mark Rendell, Principal Director, Accenture, mark.rendell@accenture.com, @markosrendell

Chivas Nambiar, Director Systems Engineering, Verizon, chivas.nambiar@one.verizon.com

Mustafa Kapadia, NA DevOps Service Line Leader, IBM, m.a.kapadia@us.ibm.com