Getting to sit down with Marc Rix from Scaled Agile for this conversation was one of those moments where preparation met opportunity. Marc has a rare ability to talk about DevOps in a way that connects the philosophical underpinnings — flow, feedback, continuous learning — to the messy reality of enterprises running legacy mainframes alongside cloud-native microservices. We covered a lot of ground: what DevOps actually means beyond the toolchain, how value streams should be identified, and why large organizations so often get stuck trying to apply startup-scale thinking to enterprise-scale problems.
What stayed with me most was Marc's emphasis on starting where you are. Not where you wish you were, not where the framework says you should be, but where the work actually flows today. For anyone navigating the early stages of a DevOps transformation — or wondering why the one they started has stalled — I think this conversation offers both clarity and encouragement.