


You can see all of the Three Ways in each step of the transformation.Īs Gary says, “We definitely did DevOps. Gary Gruver still describes this transformation as fundamentally DevOps, even though firmware isn’t delivered as a service by IT Operations. This project was led by Gary Gruver ( LinkedIn, website) in 2006, who at the time was Director of LaserJet Firmware for Hewlett Packard. (Yes, the firmware that runs LaserJet printers!) Instead, it was for the firmware software that supported the enterprise HP LaserJet family of products. It’s a truly remarkable story for a variety of reasons: they improved the productivity of developers by 2-3x, but it wasn’t for software supporting a website. In this blog post, I want to share with you one of the most startling case studies of DevOps-style transformation I’ve ever seen.
