Guaranteed failure: Applying DevOps frameworks without context
Most large-scale DevOps initiatives fail to succeed. A report from Gartner predicts that "through 2022, 75 percent of DevOps initiatives will fail to meet expectations due to issues around organizational learning and change." According to the analyst house, one reason for this is that organizations have too high and unrealistic expectations of what implementing a DevOps approach will bring. These high expectations exist because when organizations decide to take the DevOps path, it is often in an attempt to emulate the success they have seen in big webscale companies. The reality is however, that for the vast majority of companies, their circumstances are so far removed from the Apples, Googles and Microsofts of this world that attempting to follow their example will only lead to tears.
