DevOps Practices Are Easy, Changing the Culture is the Tricky Part!

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Deutsche Telekom IT explains how cultural change, not practices, blocks DevOps at scale and shows concrete fixes: set up a central CI/CD hub (GitLab), a DevOps coaching product with workshops and team consulting, chapter SPOCs across ~127 hubs, and a DevOps Expert Council. Built tools include the DevOps Health Radar workshops and a seven-question DevOps Maturity Score; 47 hubs responded so far with an average 2.9/5.0. A 1,000+ staff relocation and an SRE pilot force adjustments, and the services report strong uptake and measurable progress.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:38Deutsche Telekom’s DevOps journey
3. 5:55Changing German engineering culture
4. 7:17Pilot hubs and early scaling
5. 10:27Mindset shift and coaching team
6. 12:52Skill-based org structure
7. 15:03Leadership engagement and expert council
8. 18:35DevOps maturity score
9. 20:43Business collaboration and closing

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