Chapter 1

UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSFORMATION

There are large organizations in the industry using leading-edge techniques such as Agile and DevOps to develop software faster and more efficiently than anyone ever thought possible. These are typically companies that learned how to architect and develop software well while they were still relatively small. They then grew large quickly because of these breakthrough capabilities. Think Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

Currently, however, the majority of software is not developed by leading-edge groups like these, but by more traditional organizations using less efficient approaches. This book is written to help leaders ...

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