The Operationalism of DevSecOps

Operationalism is a cornerstone of operations management, and is based on the intuition that we do not know the meaning of a concept unless we have a method of measurement for it. Percy Williams Bridgman coined "operationalism" in his book The Logic of Physics (1927). Bridgman's work, specifically around an operational definition, heavily influenced W. Edward Deming's work. In Dr. Deming's "New Economics," he said: "An operational definition is a procedure agreed upon for translation of a concept into a measurement of some kind." I'll discuss Dr. Deming's work in this presentation, and explain how he would have viewed standard DevSecOps metrics.