Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age

In the vein of business tales The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited brings to life how organizations can rethink the issue of governance to deliver business value faster, easier, and safer. The goal of Investments Unlimited is to radically rethink governance. By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, this book will catalyze a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that inspires trust and is inherently more secure. Investments Unlimited tells the story of a fictional company in the financial sector, but the same tale can be told about any industry or enterprise that deals with governance. As readers travel through this narrative, they will pick up modern ways to view, deploy, use, and survive governance in a fun way that helps deliver organizational objectives, ultimately making it easier for organizations to deliver business value faster, easier, safer, and happier.

Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute, and ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She is the Chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium and provides strategic advisory services to DevOps industry leaders. She is also an analyst at Techstrong Research, hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk and the Value Stream Evolution series on TechStrong TV. She currently lives in the UK.Bill Bensing transforms Shadow IT into legitimate software development organizations. Bill's recent thought-leadership is proving software delivery velocity and highly secure and compliant software are not mutually exclusive. He lives in Tampa Bay, FL, area.Jason Cox is a champion of DevOps practices, promoting new technologies and better ways of working. His goal is to help businesses and organizations deliver more value, inspiration and experiences to our diverse human family across the globe, better, faster, safer and happier. He currently leads SRE teams and resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their children.Michael Edenzon is a senior IT leader and engineer that modernizes and disrupts the technical landscape for highly-regulated organizations. Michael provides technical design, decisioning, and solutioning across complex verticals and leverages continuous learning practices to drive organizational change. He is a fervent advocate for the developer experience and believes that enablement-focused automation is the key to building compliant software at scale.Topo Pal is a thought leader, keynote speaker, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption and Digital Transformation. He is a hands-on developer and Open Source contributor. Topo has been leading and contributing to industry initiatives around automated governance in DevOps practices. Topo resides Richmond, Virginia with his wife and two children.Caleb Queern is a Director in KPMG's Cyber practice and is based in Austin. He has more than 15 years of technology and information security experience. His focus is reducing risk and improving performance so organizations can meet business goals and enable growth. His specialties include secure DevOps and application security, security operations, and operational excellence. John Rzezotarski assists organizations with strategic planning and leadership in the solution and infrastructure focus areas; moreover, John provides thought leadership to large enterprises that need to focus on reliability, scalability, regulatory, and other business considerations. His expertise spans many verticals with a focus on digital, payments, security, development, and his primary passion is solving business and IT problems thru technology, process, and culture transformations.Andres Vega helps engineers and organizations securely build large-scale distributed software solutions across multi-cloud environments. During his career, his focus has been on the intersection of cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and software delivery with open-source projects, such as the Linux Kernel, Linux Containers, and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes. He is an active participate in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a recognized Technical Oversight Committee Contributor and as Technical Leader in the Special Interest Group for Security (SIG-Security). John Willis is an author and Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat. John is considered one of the founders of the DevOps movement. He is the coauthor of The DevOps Handbook and Beyond The Phoenix Project. He lives in Acworth, GA.