Ten Ways to Doom Your DevSecOps

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Lists ten concrete failure modes and gives actionable counters: slow onboarding that takes days or months and kills engagement; a pretend cloud that hides behind tickets instead of self-service cloud APIs; mandated “agile” rituals and status rollups that block team autonomy; change control boards that DORA links to higher risk; emphasize Infrastructure as Code and immutable infrastructure to prove releases; too many decision makers and too many metrics; warns realistic expectations and disciplined incremental wins.

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1. 0:00intro
2. 1:43preamble
3. 2:14slow onboarding
4. 3:09"cloud"
5. 3:55"agile"
6. 5:02change control board
7. 6:15afraid to fail
8. 7:25unchanging culture
9. 8:37unchanging policies
10. 9:48too many decision makers
11. 10:43too many metrics
12. 11:29unrealistic expectations
13. 12:09summary, reach out!

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