anchor.diff:  author: Ken Mugrage
   excerpt: "In part 3 of the series, You can’t buy DevOps but you may need to sell it, we'll explore some of the actions to spread change."
   title_tag_of_header: "Actions to spread DevOps Adoption | GoCD Blog"
  -meta_description: "This post explores ways to spread Devops adoption."
  +meta_description: "In part three of our Selling DevOps series, we explores a few ways to spread Devops adoption in your organization."
   meta_keywords: "devops, what is devops, continuous delivery open source, convince your team to adopt devops, devops misconceptions, devops benefits"
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   tags: Selling DevOps
  
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  ## **Summary**
  
  In these three posts, we went through some DevOps statistics and industry stories for you get buy-in, misconceptions and strategies to gain acceptance and patterns to drive and spread DevOps adoption. Having working in continuous delivery and DevOps space for several years, I truly understand that it’s really hard. I want to end this series with Robin Sharma’s quote: 
  
  > All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and so gorgeous at the end.
   
  
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  There are a lot of public events and conferences where you can go to learn about DevOps. I think these are great places to learn, but they aren’t going to be talking about the specifics of your organization.
  
  Consider hosting internal events where you're free to talk about your challenges, because somebody else might have overcome them. I like structures with a combination of presentations and interactive sessions that you'll see in public events like [DevOpsDays](https://devopsdays.org).
  
  ### **Mentor Teams**
  
  I normally rant against terms like “DevOps Team”. Most of the time this is another new silo or the rebranding of some other existing team. 
  
  >“In a fit of rage caused by reading yet another email in which one of our customers proposed creating a ‘devops team’ so as to ‘implement’ devops, I tweeted that ‘THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DEVOPS TEAM.’” - Jez Humble
  
  A team of mentors who will go out and embed with product teams however is perfectly valid.
  
  