{"id":37586,"date":"2019-08-08T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/?p=37586"},"modified":"2019-08-03T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T02:36:26","slug":"devops-and-beyond-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/devops-and-beyond-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"DevOps and Beyond Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest post, Premier Developer consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ron-vincent-8958145\/\">Ron Vincent<\/a> discusses the results-oriented mindset of DevOps.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It is quite common these days to hear DevOps practitioners talk about how we have moved from celebrating activity to the need to celebrate outcomes. This appears to be where the community is at when it comes to their current mental model. However, the community now to needs to move from this mental model to a new one which is what I will discuss in this article.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating activity is unfortunately where many enterprise organizations are still at. It\u2019s easy for a manager to ask \u201cHow many hours did you spend on this?\u201d or \u201cWhat\u2019s your utilization rate?\u201d This is narrow minded and shallow because it doesn\u2019t tell us anything other than how busy someone is. As Warren Buffet said, \u201cBusy is the new stupid.\u201d A person can spend 1 hour on something and save the company millions or generate millions of dollars. On the other hand, they can be busy 110% and not have any positive outcomes. The DevOps community has realized this and fully embraced this new mindset of celebrating outcomes as a result.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more of Ron&#8217;s post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/devops-beyond-outcomes-ron-vincent\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do high-velocity organizations get better at what they do, they get better at getting better at what they do. This scales so that no one can keep up with them. After all, most companies hire from the same pool of talent, they use the same software practices such as Agile\/Scrum, they use the same tools, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":37587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-37586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","tag-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Not only do high-velocity organizations get better at what they do, they get better at getting better at what they do. This scales so that no one can keep up with them. After all, most companies hire from the same pool of talent, they use the same software practices such as Agile\/Scrum, they use the same tools, and so on.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}