What does the Business need from DevOps?
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DevOps aims to help businesses deliver quality software at speed through fast and frequent deployments, quick response to changes, and optimized infrastructure costs. Research shows DevOps leaders see significant benefits like being 2,555x faster at deployments, having 200x more frequent deployments, and 50% higher growth in market capitalization. However, adopting DevOps faces barriers that require executive support to overcome organizational challenges and implement cultural and tooling changes. Measuring DevOps success through business-focused metrics could help gain stakeholder buy-in for the transition.
What does the Business need from DevOps?
- 1. What does the Business need from DevOps? Tathagat Varma http://thoughtleadership.in
- 2. Context • This talk is based on secondary research on business aspects of DevOps adoption drivers, barriers and benefits. • I hope it will help build the business case for decision-makers and bring practitioners on the same page.
- 3. Research sources …and articles, blogs, insights…
- 4. Business context • Fast deployments at scale: impacts customer acquisition and retention • Deliver quality at speed: remove wastage, reduce rework, automated deploys • Quick response to changes: experiment, learn and adapt to changes in “real-time” • Manage infra costs: optimize infrastructure usage, reduce risks and uncertainties
- 5. Best vs. the Rest • 2,555x faster deployments • 200x frequent deployments • 22% lower time in unplanned work or rework • 3x lower change failure rates • 24x faster failure recovery • 50% lower time remediating security issues • 50% higher growth in m-cap • 2.2x likely to refer friend for job
- 6. Best vs. the Rest…
- 7. Some of the Bests…
- 10. Cultural changes
- 12. Challenges
- 15. Improvements
- 17. Benefits
- 18. Conclusions • As biz go digital, IT become critical. IT is biz! • DevOps is org-wide capability to deliver and manage core biz services in real-time at scale. • While benefits are obvious, the org barriers are significant and require exec support. • Adoption of biz-facing metrics could help get better stakeholder support.