5 Super Easy Values to Assess your Organization’s DevOps Readiness

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5 SUPER EASY VALUES TO ASSESS YOUR ORGANIZATION
S DEVOPS READINESS
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DevOps is not only a methodology it is something
that needs to be woven into the values and
cultural fabric of an organization. Besides, its
adoption is unavoidable to keep your stride at
par with high-velocity business rivals. Although,
DevOps delivers compelling business benefits,
many organizations stick to pre-digital methods
of developing and delivering new products and
services due to lack of their DevOps
readiness. In production terms, irrespective of
the business case, whether it is a
hardware-driven or a software-rooted one, most
firms utilize Henry Fords assembly line method
instead of a DevOps approach termed by Patrick
Debois, excluding, some of the business models
like Uber and Netflix are truly disruptive in
both product and processes, which are rare
exceptions within the sphere of the business
world. For every organization offering speed and
agility, there are thousands more akin working
with traditional SDLC methods.
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Instead of developing a handful of
highly-engineered products released per year,
spinning up hundreds of apps and features by
adopting more agile practice every quarter would
count.
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So, how can you kickstart your DevOps journey?
1.Assess Your Organizations Current
State Before starting DevOps from a grass-root
level, it is crucial to assess your current
systemic issues, technical debt, and limitation
of software delivery ecosystem. This brings all
the resources on the same page of understanding
costs and intended efficiency gains involved. It
also lets you know where you stand and what needs
fixing.Without an accurate assessment, there's
no way to know that your organization is ready to
adopt DevOps demands. It is impossible to
identify the pain points and prioritize the list
of changes required without an assessment.
Bottom line The assessment process helps you
gain insights into where your organizations sit
with regards to Technical, Process, Measurement,
and the Cultural domain.
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2. Define DevOps Strategy

• When embarking on the path to a successful DevOps
  initiative, your DevOps strategy needs to be
  aligned with the business vision and objectives
  at the team level. Each member must realize what
  they are trying to achieve with the strategy and
  metrics defined to accomplish a common business
  goal.
• While defining a DevOps strategy, you need a
  clear understanding of your current practices
  such as - do you use test automation, or have
  good coding practices? How well do you manage
  continuous integration, configuration,
  application maintenance and release? Do you use
  agile or waterfall model or both? Or does your
  team follow ITIL processes?
• Insights into these practices can explore your
  approach towards application development which
  helps in defining the best DevOps strategy, while
  reinforcing an individuals problem-solving
  capabilities.

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3. Bring Collaboration Between The Dev And Ops
Team DevOps is all about creating
cross-functional collaboration between
development and operations team. Generally, the
conflict occurs when development teams are always
hustling to push code, bug fixes, patch updates
as quickly as possible. While operations teams
mostly focus on delivering 100 customer
satisfaction. The ideology of DevOps is to create
collaboration between the teams by aligning the
goals, vision, and pipeline of priority tasks
that facilitates faster and accurate software
deliveries. Identify tools and processes that
can accommodate both the departments needs and
involve team members in end-to-end software
development life cycle to boost engagement and
productivity.
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4. Focus On Constraints
Figure out the largest bottleneck you face while
delivering software. It could be transitioning
new and changed systems into production or in
processes and applications that limit your
throughput. By focusing on these constraints,
your DevOps team can logically understand what
holds them back from the required cadence and
address it. Enlist the whole team to check the
end-to-end process from conception to delivery,
where the hiccups occur and where a little
effort can pay a huge dividend, since you cannot
derail your DevOps initiative while trying to
scale before being DevOps ready.
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5. Develop Your DevOps Toolchain The overall
objective of DevOps implementation lies in the
selection of the appropriate toolchain and
integrating it into the application life cycle.
In an ideal state, your well-integrated toolchain
is the key to help you achieve your goal of
delivering software into the hands of your
customers faster and frequently. However,
selecting the right tools for your team is nearly
difficult. Out of several flashy tools, a
diverse range of options, and seemingly universal
solution solvers, it is tempting to consider
those who can solve your distinct problems.Before
all of that, find out loopholes that exist in
your current processes for specific reasons such
as manual testing, an excessive disparity of
tools, or lack of collaboration that prevents you
from growing effectively. Analyze your toolchain
components right from planning, development,
operations, release and monitoring to improve
and each tool can be linked to its adjacent tool
in the application life cycle. This will enable
you to achieve continuous integration and
continuous delivery lifecycle.
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DevOps is all about knowing your numbers. If you
get right on your DevOps journey, you can thrive
like any other. For more details, read this
article on best DevOps practices to Fast-Track
your Delivery Pipeline. As a Technology First
company, Cygnet Infotech offers you a guide for
accelerating your DevOps journey with integrity
and speed. Get in touch with experts at Cygnet
today on 1-609-245-0971 or inquiry_at_cygnetinfotech
.com.
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