DevOps 101: Continuous Improvement and Learning

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No development team is perfect. Even the highest-performing teams can improve on what they’re doing, or else they probably need tweaks from time to time as knowledge, attitudes, situations, and responsibilities evolve.

Continuous improvement is a fundamental principle of DevOps, promoting a culture of ongoing learning, feedback, and enhancement. The ideal of continuous improvement involves iteratively identifying areas for improvement, implementing changes, and measuring the impact to drive further refinements.

Look, I get it: this seems like super-basic stuff. And it is! These things feel obvious, they’re pretty easy to get right, and you can easily forget about Continuous Improvement when a team is functioning well. But I’ve seen more than one team fail to implement a simple end-of-sprint retrospective, and the results are not good.

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