I once transitioned from a SaaS CTO role to become a business unit CIO at a Fortune 100 enterprise that aimed to bring startup development processes, technology, and culture into the organization. The executives recognized the importance of developing customer-facing applications, game-changing analytics capabilities, and more automated workflows.
Let’s just say my team and I did a lot of teaching on agile development and nimble architectures. But we also had a lot to learn about deploying highly reliable, performant, and secure applications to our data centers. This was all before the days of cloud computing and devsecops.