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DevOps can turn your company from an environment that is silo-ed to an environment which is well integrated and collaborated. DevOps is all about bringing all teams together so that the team members communicate in a common language and terminology. DevOps culture emphasises on frequent deployment of shippable products in shorter duration by automating all possible activities involved in development, build management, testing and deployment. While implementing DevOps, entire organization may look unsettling, but the benefits derived thereafter would be worth it. Majority of enterprises attempting to scale agile over the next five years will recognize the need for DevOps initiatives now.
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Assessing DevOps Readiness DevOps can turn your company from an environment that is silo-ed to an environment which is well integrated and collaborated. DevOps is all about bringing all teams together so that the team members communicate in a common language and terminology. DevOpsculture emphasises on frequent deployment of shippable products in shorter duration by automating all possible activities involved in development, build management, testing and deployment. While implementing DevOps, entire organization may look unsettling, but the benefits derived thereafter would be worth it. Majority of enterprises attempting to scale agile over the next five years will recognize the need for DevOps initiatives now. If you are starting DevOps journey simply because ‘everyone is moving in that direction’ the success is very unlikely. Whether you have already started adopting or yet to take a dive into DevOps, it is important to understand your organization’s need for its implementation.
Assessing DevOps Readiness Organizations yet to start their DevOps journey In past, we have assessed few Organizations to see their readiness for DevOps implementation. Our assessment started with a set of fundamental questions to understand more about the Organization, methodologies, tools and processes. During our interaction with the teams, initial response to above questions was ‘yes’. However, we realized that the response was provided based on many assumptions made without approaching key stakeholders in respective teams. No structured approach is followed in organizations to consolidate feedback frequently from all the teams on important factors like quality, time-to-market, adherence to principles, processes, tools, continuous integration etc. At Enhops, we use an in-house tool, which helps any organization to understand whether they are ready for DevOps implementation.
Assessing DevOps Readiness • Organizations that have already started their DevOps journey • We have also worked with Organizations, which have already started DevOps journey and experiencing transformation challenges. • Management: Management’s role is vital in large transformation programs such as DevOpsbecause it is a sudden cultural shift across organization. Management has to foresee all the potential risks and create robust transformation strategy with interim review checkpoints. In addition, the transformation also has to consider enough budgets for training. • Release Plan: As a practice, individual teams develop their own plans with inputs from a common release calendar. While developing such plans they fail to understand the interdependencies within the main stream development as well as maintenance. In order to overcome this challenge organizations have to develop an integrated release calendar which addresses the needs and goals of all teams. DevOps requires all streams to work as ONE team in order to achieve the common GOAL.
Assessing DevOps Readiness • People:Quality is everyone’s responsibility. That said, every team member should steer from the old school of thought to find better ways to streamline the entire process. DevOps mandates automating as many steps as possible from development to deployment to gain competitive edge. Looking inwards, the team needs to get a clear understanding on data model, environments, application code architecture and system architecture for successful DevOps implementation. • Processes: The common perception is Agile = no documentation. This is not true! For a successful Agile implementation the organization has to ready itself with minimal yet robust documentation, matured teams and support from business & IT. Initiatives such as timely retrospectives, skill upgrades, tool optimization and technology stack reviews have to be introduced to ensure that the transformation program is on track.
Assessing DevOps Readiness Conclusion It is concluded by many reports and companies that adoption of DevOps practice improves IT performance and culture of the organization. But, implementing DevOps in the right format can help your Organization to realize the TRUE benefits. Puppet Labs’ 2015 State of DevOps Report indicates high performing IT organizations deploy code 30 times more frequently and 200 times faster than their lower performing peers. They also have 60 percent fewer failures and recover 168 times faster. Embracing DevOps is a long incessant journey. So, it is important to assess, analyse and then implement. Begin DevOps implementation with a careful explanation of its objectives, metrics and expectations of management. Provide necessary training to all the team members and then improve existing processes before you take a big leap towards another transformation. For more details on DevOps transformation, please write to us at info@enhops.com.
