Although different teams in NetApp IT have adopted DevOps practices, we initially lacked a common approach to how DevOps teams should be formed and how they should operate to meet a true definition of DevOps. We needed to understand what differentiates a DevOps team from a regular development team and what processes DevOps teams should follow. Therefore, we created our definition of a DevOps team based on ten rules, outlined in the whitepaper, “DevOps the NetApp Way.”