One of the implications of DevOps is a merger of development and corresponding operations teams into several build-it-and-run-it teams.

This means the typical tech organization that supports an old-guard business must reorganize to realize the full potential of DevOps.

It is insufficient to only aim for better engineering techniques and greater automation, hard as that may be in itself. The reorg is a challenge for large tech organizations that are often split down the middle in the form of a change organization and a run organization.

This talk explores the challenge and describes how it being addressed at some companies.

Sriram is Digital & IT management consultant at ThoughtWorks.

He helps clients improve the performance of their Digital, IT (appdev) and Product organizations by reviewing and reshaping their