Best DevOps Book of the Year
BOCA RATON, Florida, January 27, 2021
MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, recognized “Standing On Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation” by Jack Maher and Carmen DeArdo as the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards recipient for the Best DevOps Book / eBook of the Year category. The DevOps Dozen Awards highlight the most agile and distinguished individuals and companies who have demonstrated exceptional performance and commitment to the DevOps community.
“Standing On Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation” by Jack Maher and Carmen DeArdo (foreword by Gene Kim) is a must-read, providing leaders with practical, actionable information about the breadth of Agile, Lean and DevOps topics that are generally dealt with individually. The book explains how each of these are necessary but alone are not sufficient to avoid market disruption of your business. The authors focus on how to build an employee and customer-obsessed culture with an organizational structure that drives speed and efficiency, while leveraging technology to enable speed to value that is faster, safer, better and cheaper.
“It is quite an accomplishment to be a DevOps Dozen honoree,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “The standard of excellence required to receive this award is reserved for only the most distinguished members of the community—the top leaders, innovators and pioneers that are driving positive change in the world of DevOps. Congratulations and thank you for making our community better through your leadership and service.”
The DevOps Dozen honorees have displayed resilience, determination, commitment and willingness to embrace change in a year of unprecedented challenges to drive their business—and the industry—forward. They represent the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space.
The honorees have been chosen from among the finalists with general public voting being weighted for 40% of the final total and our judges selections for 60% of the weighted total.
Winners will receive both digital and physical trophies and badges celebrating their achievements.
For more information and to check out the full list of honorees, please visit the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards website.
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https://dataguy.me/2019/06/interview-maher-and-deardo/
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