Expanding beyond software delivery

Despite what you have read, CD and DevOps need not be restricted to simply software/product delivery. The tools, processes, and best practices that come with this way of working can be extended to include other areas of the business outside of traditional IT. For example, let's presume that your product-delivery process is now optimal and efficient, but there are certain business functions that sit before and after the actual product-delivery process; these functions are starting to creak, or, maybe, they are starting to hinder the now highly-efficient product-delivery stage.

There is no reason why using the same techniques covered earlier you cannot address wider reaching business problems. You now have the experience, ...

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