Well this is an interesting book by Issac Sacolic, worth a read for those aspiring to CxO roles. Very well written with many stories giving a picture with full details to the board room questions which the reader gets to know without actually being there .
I remember my own attempt at one such transformation at an automotive Tier-1 where the goal was to introduce DevOps into an automotive Continuous Integration pipeline. It was very challenging as there were up to eight different OEMs with diversity of Android , Embedded Linux and QNX as operating systems. Then there was the different cross compilation tool chains, many binaries getting integrated from 3rd party.
The first step we took was to document the current “T-1 State of DevOps”, then defined quarterly goals to achieve towards the CI/CD and CT , meaning full DevOps in an embedded development ecosystem. The only other company which had achieved this goal first was HP which has a single code base for all their family of printers. We took inspiration and faith from HP’s journey.
As quarters rolled we achieved full DevOps for all embedded Linux projects in about six months which in itself was a success.
Many of the stories in the book resonated with my own experiences , although at that time the term was not so popular or maybe I was not aware of this term.
I strongly recommend reading this book at I think you might like this book: Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership by Isaac Sacolick.
Automotive embedded | Software engineering | Cybersecurity 