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We hear a lot about DevOps culture and how it will wake the sleeping global corporates. Once aroused these genial giants will shower us all with the gifts of their benevolence. So we’re told. DevOps is the weapon that opens the gates and breathes life into these beauties. Yes, all you have to do is create some code, defeat the praetorian guard of execotaurs of middle management (they’re like minotaurs, only they’re half man-half desk) and force them to understand your instruction to be ‘more agile’. Once you’ve done that, it’s just a question of fundamentally changing human nature and re-configuring our primal instincts. As they say in IT industry press releases, it really is as simple as that. Surely not. Maybe professional services company ECS, which turns over £90 million a year for its services to infrastructure agility, can enlighten us. Its new DevOps division tripled its revenue last year, so they must know what they are doing. If i’m interpreting Dave Foreman, the ECS corporate services practice director, correctly then ...