Challenge
Corporate leaders recognize that market growth is dependent on customer-centric service delivery models which demand rapid delivery of high-quality software systems. However, there are no specific theories to measure the readiness of the organizations to adopt DevOps culture. Today’s customer has become smart, and Organizations are changing their stance for faster application delivery to live up to the customer expectations. But, organizations encountering with operations, process, and development, will in turn heap up challenges in terms of aligning with governance and strategy.
Assessing success in a business context is acute, but because DevOps isn’t a formal framework, organizations can still have little way of guidance to assess its efficiency. But this can be a little delicate activity when organizations try to measure systems which are output-based or used on some metrics or methods that incentivize behaviors counter to a DevOps culture.
Why DevOps?
So far it was assumed that DevOps isn’t easy and it can be a struggle to manage and implement it productively. Today there are several approaches made it easy for the organizations that are looking towards adopting DevOps. Through DevOps Assessments Program Organizations can identify, manage, and implement DevOps principles productively. DevOps has demonstrated serious effectiveness for accelerating software development and rationalizing the interaction of operations and quality assurance (QA) departments. DevOps imposes demands that every organization needs to be ready to address.
Opportunity
When adopting DevOps, organizations should consider new approaches identifying and implementing DevOps assessment program. Since DevOps is all about building a robust culture to enhance IT service deliveries, this will include deliberation for actionable metrics that are open, transparent and promote collaboration. DevOps is undoubtedly an extension of agile and lean principles. It is a revolution resulting in an evolution of agile that extends the practice of agile development for speedy delivery. From the formation of ideas or concepts to production and overcome the obstacles of the walls between operations, development, and business via co-operation & collaboration practices.
Let us look at some assessments which help organization for DevOps Transformation
Assessment I: Does DevOps bring value to the business?
Implementing DevOps practices will certainly bring value to the businesses as this can be a buying point where organizations are leaning towards implementation of DevOps. This is because the software development cycles take years of coding and testing before releasing their product and requires a lot of resources to bring the required output of a product. But, what if when sales are not guaranteed and issues such as defects and bugs are raised once the product is out. Such issues will definitely hit the success of the product and ROI. This is where the implementation of DevOps principles can answer to the above-mentioned issues.
Assessment II: Is IT flexible enough to support DevOps?
When DevOps is included to a new development cycle, it works differently and supports the developers and Quality departments and drives the resources on a much faster schedule to test and support each new release. To make sure the process runs all smooth, IT Companies must install the latest versions of software releases on one or multiple servers in the data or cloud centers, and interconnecting storage, performance monitoring, supporting databases, and other resources.
The IT corporations should thoroughly evaluate the application requirements, and approve the infrastructure and servers, and perform the deployment for the approved product. Such firm processes work well when the organization's staff works on occasional software releases.
Assessment III: Is the company large enough for DevOps?
To implement DevOps principles an organization should be capable enough to support the processes, tools, and the resources to keep DevOps productive. Balancing the resources and demands of the project can be difficult for small businesses at the initial point. However, Small businesses can often outsource the application development or invest in applications like Salesforce rather than in-house CRM package.
Organizations with 50 to 250 may not be able to adopt DevOps principles. Whereas, Organizations with more than 1,000 employees may have more advantages.
Assessment IV: Knowing Organization’s DevOps strategy?
DevOps is a mix of people, tools, and processes. It is not an exercise or an event to implement it successfully with one software, tool or a plan taken out from a book.
With a comprehensive DevOps assessment and supporting tools, organizations adopting DevOps can:
• Quickly measure and establish clear business terms with effective DevOps processes like continuous delivery and parallel development methods
• Support cross-functional teams around business value conception and continuous development
• identify capacity gaps and initiate the remediation policies to achieve targets and goals
• Eliminate existing practices that counter a strong DevOps culture to prevent the flow value to the businesses and customers
Conclusion
Every company has its own approach towards adopting DevOps and implementing. Adjusting and adapting the people, tools and processes to meet the organization's unique goals is the main aim to adopt DevOps. In this process of adopting DevOps, hiring developers who are familiar with DevOps workflows & cycles, organize IT staff capable of accommodating dynamic release schedules, implementing a suite of tools facilitate collaboration between developers, QA, and IT and applying strong business management that can drive DevOps adoption.
Today’s corporates often evaluate DevOps potential and insert it by slow degrees, developing proficiency and skills with teams working on small and less prioritized projects. Then they steadily involve these skills and tools to work on critical projects over time to bring the overall success of the product or software.
