With #GoogleCloud, you can maximize cost- efficiency through a flexible pay-as-you-go pricing model. There are no upfront commitments, and you are billed for services by the second, ensuring you never pay for unused time. #Google #GCP

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#Google Cloud Shell is a fantastic starting point, offering a browser-based development and operations environment. This small, on-demand virtual machine comes pre-loaded with essential tools like gcloud, kubectl, and is automatically authenticated to your Google #Cloud account.

#Leadership is predictive of Lean product development capabilities (working in small batches, gathering and implementing customer feedback) and technical practices (deployment automation, shift left on security, loosely coupled #architecture, empowered teams). #devops

Teams should slice work into small pieces that can be completed in a week or less. The key is to have work decomposed into small features that allow for #rapiddevelopment, instead of developing complex features on #branches and releasing them infrequently. #devops

Use a loosely coupled #architecture. This affects the extent to which a team can test and deploy their #applications on demand, without requiring orchestration with other services. Having a loosely coupled architecture allows your #teams to work independently.

Integrating #security into the design and testing phase of the #software development process is key to driving IT performance. #devops

#Test automation is a practice where #software tests are run automatically (not manually) continuously throughout the development process. Effective test suites are reliable - that is, tests find real #failures and only pass releasable code.

Continuous integration (#CI) is the first step towards continuous #delivery. This is a #development practice where code is regularly checked in, and each check-on triggers a set of quick tests to discover serious regressions, which developers fix immediately.

Version control is the use of a version control system, such as #GitHub or Subversion, for all production artifacts, including application code, #application configurations, system configurations, and scripts for automating build and configuration of the environment. #devops

Develop and maintain the right #mindset. This is about #learning and how to create an environment for shared organizational learning - not about just doing the #practices, and certainly not about employing tools.

A courageous and supportive #leader is crucial to help teams “slow down to speed up”, providing them with the permission and safety to put #quality first which, in the long run, improves #speed, consistency, and capacity while reducing cost, delays, and rework.

If failure is punished, people won’t try new things. Treating #failures as opportunities to learn and holding blameless postmortems to work out how to improve processes and systems helps people feel comfortable taking (reasonable) risks, and helps create a culture of innovation.

Ensuring that your team has the resources to engage in informal #learning and the space to explore ideas. Learning often happens outside of formal education. Some #companies, have famously set aside a portion of time for focused free-thinking and exploration of #sideprojects.

Building trust with your counterparts on other #teams. Building #trust between teams is the most important thing you can do, and it must be built over time. Trust is built on kept promises, #opencommunication, and behaving predictably even in stressful situations.

We also found that investment in DevOps is highly correlated with software delivery performance. When it comes to #culture, managers can improve matters by enabling specific DevOps practices in their #teams and by visibly investing in #DevOps.

#Managers are those who have responsibility for people, and often #budgets and resources, in #organizations. In the best case, managers are also leaders and take on the characteristics of transformational leadership outlined above.

Moving to the #cloud offers enormous benefits for businesses. Yet there are risks as well. The challenge is multidimensional, with farreaching implications not just for the solutions that will run in the cloud, but also for the technologies that support them. #gcp

Moving to the #cloud offers enormous benefits for businesses. Yet there are risks as well. The challenge is multidimensional, with farreaching implications not just for the solutions that will run in the cloud. #googlecloud

Transformational #leadership enables the practices that correlate with high performance, and it also supports effective communication and collaboration between #teammembers in pursuit of organizational goals. #devops