Passing along a request from Jay Lyman at 451 Group, who is looking for folks doing "devops" who would be willing to discuss the experience with him.

Jay's note is pasted below my signature.  Please contact him directly if you can help him: Jay Lyman <jay.lyman <at> the451group.com>

Thanks!

All best,

Barry

Hello,

The 451 Group, an independent IT industry analysis and consulting firm,
would like some input on customer and user experiences with 'devops,'
the term for an increasing enterprise IT trend we see joining
developers, IT administrators and operations teams and other
stakeholders together to deal with today's modern IT technology,
applications and services. At its core, devops involves the use of agile
application development and agile operations, and the use of automation
that is perpetuating the changing role of operations from infrastructure
and OS-level tasks to application performance, quality and uptime. To
provide some real-world examples and use cases, we would like your
input. In return, you will qualify for a complimentary summary of our
research and analysis (normally reserved for paying subsribers). Please
respond with brief but hopefully substantive answers to the following
questions:

-What was the impetus or circumstances that drove your organization to
have developers/engineering work more closely with admins/IT operations?

-What has driven devops further in your organization, or what has
prevented it?

-What are the top challenges of having dev and ops work together?

-What have been the rewards?

-How would you rate these challenges for devops: cultural, technical,
organizational/leadership?

-How would you rate these drivers of devops: open source, cloud
computing, time, economic?

-What have been the lessons in your devops experience?

-Anything else you would like to add?

-Also, please provide the following information as completely as
possible:
-Company name
-Primary activities/products/services
-Head office location
-IT infrastructure - number of servers
-Number of employees
-Number of employees on IT team
-Last year revenue and/or net income
--contact email 

Thank you again for your time and input, which will help in our research
and analysis, which participants will be able to read as a reward for
their participation.

Regards,

JL


Jay Lyman, Analyst, Open Source
The 451 Group
jay.lyman <at> the451group.com
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