Answers: <p>Useful memes:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>"<strong>Wall of Confusion</strong>" from <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/littleidea/agile-infrastructure-velocity-09" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.slideshare.net/littleidea/agile-infrastructure-velocity-09</a></li>
  <li><strong>C.A.M.S.</strong> from <a href="https://blog.chef.io/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.chef.io/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/</a></li>
  <li>"<strong>10+ deploys per day</strong>" from <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr/</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/LdOe18KhtT4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/LdOe18KhtT4</a></li>
  <li><strong>I.C.E.</strong> from <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/devops-keeps-it-cool-with-ice.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/devops-keeps-it-cool-with-ice.html</a></li>
  <li>"<strong>CI Theatre</strong>" from <a href="https://www.gocd.org/2017/05/16/its-not-CI-its-CI-theatre.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.gocd.org/2017/05/16/its-not-CI-its-CI-theatre.html</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>There are some horrible memes pushed by vendors worth mentioning.</p>
  
  <p><em>WARNING</em>: <strong>Bad</strong> memes to use for explaining DevOps (traps for young players) -</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>"BI-Modal IT" by Gartner - criticised by Jez Humble here: <a href="https://continuousdelivery.com/2016/04/the-flaw-at-the-heart-of-bimodal-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://continuousdelivery.com/2016/04/the-flaw-at-the-heart-of-bimodal-it/</a></li>
  <li>"Multi-Speed IT" by Accenture <a href="https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-calibrating-multi-speed-it" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-calibrating-multi-speed-it</a> - (same as bimodal, but different name because of copyright - asked about here - <a href="https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/1411/what-is-good-and-or-bad-about-accentures-multi-speed-it-approach-to-devops">What is good and/or bad about Accenture&#39;s Multi-speed IT approach to DevOps?</a></li>
  <li>"The Three Ways" by Gene Kim <a href="https://itrevolution.com/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://itrevolution.com/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/</a> - the comments on the article include plenty of criticism</li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers: thanks for the 'bad' memes Evgeny, would you share links to preferrably mostly objective and unbiased assessments why these are misleading?
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Answers: Since these are memes, they are hugely popular and discusses all over the place. Every Google search for these would bring out a hefty amount of both criticism and vendor pushing. It is quite easy to distinguish, anything that is not written by the vendor - for these memes would be criticism (not praise).
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Answers: partly agree, but, Gartner in that particular case is not a vendor? Neither actually Accenture/Kim. "Vendor meme" sounds to me sth to promote specific offer bound to company's IP. Still, there can be misleading memes for sure which I'd rather qualify as "myths".
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Answers: I tried my best. But Gartner IS a vendor in my book, when it tries to explain DevOps using their own made-up ideas. As the saying goes - "Everyone who is trying to define DevOps in a couple of words is trying to sell you something".
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Answers: what about Blue/Green deployment? https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html
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Body: <p>After discovering the <a href="http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/" rel="noreferrer">Cattle vs Pets</a> and <a href="https://12factor.net/" rel="noreferrer">12factor apps</a> DevOps memes which now will help me a lot with communication, I ask myself what are other known memes in the DevOps culture?</p>
  
  <p>Side note: best is to establish fact why a meme is a meme e.g. more than 10K Google query results?</p>
  
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Comments: This is an interesting question, but long lists of answers don't really work well on Stack Exchange sites. The question might be better if you narrow the criteria a little bit (see [this post](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98366/336144) for the reasons behind lists being discouraged)
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Title: What are known useful and misleading memes in the DevOps culture?
UserDisplayName: Ta Mu
ThreadText: # What are known useful and misleading memes in the DevOps culture?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-22)
  
  After discovering the [Cattle vs Pets](http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/) and [12factor apps](https://12factor.net/) DevOps memes which now will help me a lot with communication, I ask myself what are other known memes in the DevOps culture?
  
  Side note: best is to establish fact why a meme is a meme e.g. more than 10K Google query results?
  
  **Tags:** culture
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: This is an interesting question, but long lists of answers don't really work well on Stack Exchange sites. The question might be better if you narrow the criteria a little bit (see [this post](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98366/336144) for the reasons behind lists being discouraged)  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-06-23. Score: 8 | Accepted answer
  
  Useful memes:
  
  * "**Wall of Confusion**" from <https://www.slideshare.net/littleidea/agile-infrastructure-velocity-09>
  * **C.A.M.S.** from <https://blog.chef.io/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/>
  * "**10+ deploys per day**" from <https://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr/> and <https://youtu.be/LdOe18KhtT4>
  * **I.C.E.** from <http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/devops-keeps-it-cool-with-ice.html>
  * "**CI Theatre**" from <https://www.gocd.org/2017/05/16/its-not-CI-its-CI-theatre.html>
  
  There are some horrible memes pushed by vendors worth mentioning.
  
  *WARNING*: **Bad** memes to use for explaining DevOps (traps for young players) -
  
  * "BI-Modal IT" by Gartner - criticised by Jez Humble here: <https://continuousdelivery.com/2016/04/the-flaw-at-the-heart-of-bimodal-it/>
  * "Multi-Speed IT" by Accenture <https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-calibrating-multi-speed-it> - (same as bimodal, but different name because of copyright - asked about here - [What is good and/or bad about Accenture's Multi-speed IT approach to DevOps?](https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/1411/what-is-good-and-or-bad-about-accentures-multi-speed-it-approach-to-devops)
  * "The Three Ways" by Gene Kim <https://itrevolution.com/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/> - the comments on the article include plenty of criticism
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: thanks for the 'bad' memes username_2, would you share links to preferrably mostly objective and unbiased assessments why these are misleading?  
  > **username_2**: Since these are memes, they are hugely popular and discusses all over the place. Every Google search for these would bring out a hefty amount of both criticism and vendor pushing. It is quite easy to distinguish, anything that is not written by the vendor - for these memes would be criticism (not praise).  
  > **username_0**: partly agree, but, Gartner in that particular case is not a vendor? Neither actually Accenture/Kim. "Vendor meme" sounds to me sth to promote specific offer bound to company's IP. Still, there can be misleading memes for sure which I'd rather qualify as "myths".  
  > **username_2**: I tried my best. But Gartner IS a vendor in my book, when it tries to explain DevOps using their own made-up ideas. As the saying goes - "Everyone who is trying to define DevOps in a couple of words is trying to sell you something".  
  > **username_0**: what about Blue/Green deployment? https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html  
  > **username_0**: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3114195/system-management/the-8-fallacies-of-distributed-computing-are-becoming-irrelevant.html  
  > **username_0**: http://blog.idonethis.com/two-pizza-team/  
  
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