Industrializing Financial Services with DevOps

This book is a collection of proven practices, frameworks, and methods inspired by real enterprise DevOps transformations in the financial services industry. It provides a detailed overview of how an incumbent bank can create a complete DevOps 360° operating model and adopt it effectively, enabling a multi-speed organization.

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Embrace best practices to advance and help evolve your DevOps operating model in the right direction and overcome common challenges that financial services organizations face.

Purchase of the print or kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.

Key Features

Design the right DevOps operating model for your organization through practical examples
Get insights into a variety of proven practices and concepts that you can employ during your DevOps adoption
Gain a holistic view of the complete DevOps capabilities and mechanisms to be enabled

Book DescriptionIn recent years, large financial services institutions have been embracing the concept of DevOps in the core of their digital transformation strategies. This book is inspired by real enterprise DevOps adoptions in the financial services industry and provides a comprehensive proven practice guide on how large corporate organizations can evolve their DevOps operating model.

The book starts by outlining the fundamentals comprising a complete DevOps operating model. It continues with a zoom in on those fundamentals, combining adoption frameworks with real-life examples. You'll cover the three main themes underpinning the book's approach that include the concepts of 360°, at relevance, and speeds. You'll explore how a bank's corporate and technology strategy links to its enterprise DevOps evolution. The book also provides a rich array of proven practices on how to design and create a harmonious 360° DevOps operating model which should be enabled and adopted at relevance in a multi-speed context. It comes packed with real case studies and examples from the financial services industry that you can adopt in your organization and context.

By the end of this book, you will have plenty of inspiration that you can take back to your organization and be able to apply the learning from pitfalls and success stories covered in the book.

What you will learn

Understand how a firm's corporate strategy can be translated to a DevOps enterprise evolution
Enable the pillars of a complete DevOps 360° operating model
Adopt DevOps at scale and at relevance in a multi-speed context
Implement proven DevOps practices that large incumbents banks follow
Discover core DevOps capabilities that foster the enterprise evolution
Set up DevOps CoEs, platform teams, and SRE teams

Who this book is forThis book is for DevOps practitioners, banking technologists, technology managers, business directors and transformation leads. Prior knowledge of fundamental DevOps terminologies and concepts and some experience practicing DevOps in large organizations will help you make the most out of this book.