Summary

As stated at the beginning of this chapter, there is a lot to cover and take in. Some of it is relevant to you now, and some of it will be relevant for the future. All things considered, you need to ensure that you have the technical building blocks in place. You need to ensure that you are using engineering best practice, have the necessary tools and solutions in place, work in small chunks of change rather than big clumps, consider how many environments you actually need, consider simple manual processes over technology where they fit best, and monitor, monitor, and then monitor some more.

As you can see, there is quite a bit that needs to be done. It's not all technical either; simply convincing people to adopt and use the tools and ...

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