It seems OP is using the word DevOps to describe what is traditionally referred to as "special projects". Essentially, the non-technical CIO hears a new buzzword and hires a team to implement it in an ivory tower without fully partnering with existing team members. From OO to SOA to Agile to DevOps and everything in between these initiatives almost always fail. That of course doesn't mean that OO is bad, or that DevOps is bad. It is just that the "special project" methodology is terrible.