Yeah, we only have 4 people in ops and about 20 in development. We have daily standup where the ops guys and 1 person from dev meet (total 5 people). We discuss

Yeah, we only have 4 people in ops and about 20 in development. We have daily standup where the ops guys and 1 person from dev meet (total 5 people). We discuss what is happening Past and Next 24 -- this takes about 10 minutes. The process is super light. We also use puppet with git. This allows us to version everything that goes into production via a puppet tweak. This is great for rolling back changes or getting an of what was deployed. Like I said, read that visible ops handbook.