DevOpsDays Baltimore 2017. As organizations begin the path towards Dev-ops, I often run across development teams who are ready to start the transition, but don't yet have their operations counterparts on board. This talk is about the experiences and techniques that I have seen work (and not work) in my time supporting customers as a Solutions Engineer for GitHub, as well as being a development team lead in an Organization whose Operations-side was reluctant to pursue DevOps.