DevOps Culture
A cultural movement breaking silos between development and operations teams to accelerate delivery.
Definition
DevOps is both a set of practices and a cultural movement that unifies software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) teams to shorten the development lifecycle and deliver features, fixes, and updates more frequently and reliably. Core principles include shared responsibility for production reliability, blameless postmortems, automation-first mindset, continuous feedback loops, and measurement of key metrics like deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore (MTTR), and change failure rate (DORA metrics). DevOps culture shifts organizations from siloed handoffs to collaborative ownership.
Example
“After adopting DevOps culture, a financial services company increased deployment frequency from monthly to daily releases while reducing change failure rate from 30% to 5%, enabled by shared on-call responsibility, automated pipelines, and blameless incident reviews.”
Synonyms
- DevOps practices
- DevOps transformation
- DevOps mindset
- collaborative delivery
Antonyms / Opposites
- siloed teams
- dev vs ops culture
- waterfall culture
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Related Terms
- devops
- cicd
- sre
- agile