In order to take full advantage of cloud technology as an enabler for the business, teams must be reorganized into autonomous organizations, which we refer to as CND teams. The CND tenets are as follows:
- Complete ownership of their service
- Streamline decision-making within their group (build consensus quickly)
- Rotate operations responsibility (everyone does pager duty)
- Publish and maintain APIs forever
- APIs are the only way to interface with other services
- The right tools are the ones that get the job done (the team determines which language, framework, platform, engine, and so on is right for their service)
- Automation is more important than new features (automation enables the release of more features more quickly in the long run)
In order to maximize the speed at which teams develop, they need to have complete ownership of the design and build decision-making process. They cannot rely on resources or senior management to make decisions. This would introduce a huge...
