The Visible Ops Book Series
Prescriptive Guidance
The Visible Ops book series provides simple, practical, step-by-step advice on how to quickly gain the biggest benefit from proven best practices. These slim but powerful handbooks are the ideal way to get an IT organization to rally behind a simple approach to operational excellence.
Enhancing Your Cybersecurity Posture With Practical Guidance
VisibleOps Cybersecurity
Developed by the IT Process Institute, VisibleOps Cybersecurity is a strategic methodology that integrates security directly into operational processes. It moves beyond basic compliance to focus on risk management through a "design-and-operate" approach.
Governance, Risk, and Leadership in the Age of Intelligent Systems
VisibleOps A.I.
The risk is not only technical. It shows up as operational exposure, regulatory pressure, reputational damage, and AI initiatives that drift away from business priorities.
This practical guide turns AI governance into an operating model executives and boards can use, with clear roles, usable guardrails, and reporting that holds up in board conversations and audit reviews.
Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps
The Visible Ops Handbook
The Visible Ops Handbook by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr provides a practical, four-step roadmap for implementing ITIL best practices, focusing on stabilizing IT operations, improving processes, and enabling continuous improvement. It addresses the gap in ITIL's prescriptive guidance by offering actionable steps for IT organizations to increase service levels, security, and auditability, moving from chaotic firefighting to repeatable, controlled processes. The four steps are: Stabilize the Patient, Catch and Release, Establish a Repeatable Build Library, and Enable Continuous Improvement.
Achieving Common Security and IT Operations Objectives in 4 Practical Steps
VisibleOps Security
Building on the original Visible Ops Handbook, this methodology guides security professionals in strengthening partnerships with IT operations and development. By addressing the "people side" of IT, it empowers teams to integrate security requirements directly into preproduction and operational workflows.
The methodology moves beyond pure technology to address the core processes and teamwork required for effective security while complementing frameworks like COBIT, ISO 27001, and ITIL. This ensures that security is built into development and production, ultimately positioning IT to deliver highly available, cost-effective, and secure services that meet organizational goals.
From Virtualization to Private Cloud in 4 Practical Steps
Visible Ops Private Cloud
Establishing a private cloud involves partitioning data center resources into a centralized, highly virtualized pool. While it shares technical similarities with traditional consolidated server environments, private cloud represents a fundamental shift in how IT is built, managed, governed, sourced, and consumed.
The methodology is derived from analyzing real-world enterprise implementations, ranging from mid-sized projects to massive infrastructures spanning thousands of servers.
