Susan Jones had been the CEO of Investments Unlimited, Inc. (IUI) for five years, a financial institution that has successfully navigated their digital transformation. She is quick on her feet and is trusted by the board. But right now--although you can't tell from her demeanor--she was panicking. Today, IUI received notice from bank regulators concerning their unsatisfactory audit and compliance practices. If they failed to address the regulators' concerns within the year, the company could go up in smoke. She didn't understand. How had her team let this happen? How had she let this happen? Over the past several years, IUI had executed a digital transformation strategy following the business accelerating principles of Agile and DevOps. By any metric they had seemingly done things right. Feedback from customers was astounding and conversion rates for new accounts was growing faster than ever. But along the way IUIs manual governance process had become inundated with friction, frustration, and failure for the teams attempting to deliver value for their organizations. Now, it's all hands on deck for a cross-functional team of executives and engineers to develop a modern automated governance process that satisfies regulators without slowing the company's ability to meet customer demands and compete in the market. In the vein of bestselling titles The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited helps organizations radically rethink how they handle audit, compliance, and security for their software systems. By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, this book catalyzes a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that inspires trust and is inherently more secure.
About the Author: Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute, and ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She is the Chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium and provides strategic advisory services to DevOps industry leaders. She is also an analyst at Techstrong Research, hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk and the Value Stream Evolution series on TechStrong TV. She currently lives in the UK.Bill Bensing transforms Shadow IT into legitimate software development organizations. Bill's recent thought-leadership is proving software delivery velocity and highly secure and compliant software are not mutually exclusive. He lives in Tampa Bay, FL, area.Jason Cox is a champion of DevOps practices, promoting new technologies and better ways of working. His goal is to help businesses and organizations deliver more value, inspiration and experiences to our diverse human family across the globe, better, faster, safer and happier. He currently leads SRE teams and resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their children.Michael Edenzon is a senior IT leader and engineer that modernizes and disrupts the technical landscape for highly-regulated organizations. Michael provides technical design, decisioning, and solutioning across complex verticals and leverages continuous learning practices to drive organizational change. He is a fervent advocate for the developer experience and believes that enablement-focused automation is the key to building compliant software at scale.Topo Pal is a thought leader, keynote speaker, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption and Digital Transformation. He is a hands-on developer and Open Source contributor. Topo has been leading and contributing to industry initiatives around automated governance in DevOps practices. Topo resides Richmond, Virginia with his wife and two children.Caleb Queern is a Director in KPMG's Cyber practice and is based in Austin. He has more than 15 years of technology and information security experience. His focus is reducing risk and improving performance so organizations can meet business goals and enable growth. His specialties include secure DevOps and application security, security operations, and operational excellence. John Rzezotarski assists organizations with strategic planning and leadership in the solution and infrastructure focus areas; moreover, John provides thought leadership to large enterprises that need to focus on reliability, scalability, regulatory, and other business considerations. His expertise spans many verticals with a focus on digital, payments, security, development, and his primary passion is solving business and IT problems thru technology, process, and culture transformations.Andres Vega helps engineers and organizations securely build large-scale distributed software solutions across multi-cloud environments. During his career, his focus has been on the intersection of cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and software delivery with open-source projects, such as the Linux Kernel, Linux Containers, and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes. He is an active participate in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a recognized Technical Oversight Committee Contributor and as Technical Leader in the Special Interest Group for Security (SIG-Security). John Willis is an author and Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat. John is considered one of the founders of the DevOps movement. He is the coauthor of The DevOps Handbook and Beyond The Phoenix Project. He lives in Acworth, GA.