7 Key Business Benefits of DevOps

In order to be best at what an organization can achieve, there are a ton of things which need to come to the fore. The higher the networking capability between the employees, the higher the efficiency would be of the apps and tools being used within the organization. For this reason, DevOps is the keyword being used regularly these days.

When one talks about DevOps, efficiency plays a pivotal role in the story of success making. Through DevOps, developers can invest in the opportunity to work more closely with operations, stakeholders and other teams who might be responsible for the day to day functioning of the various processes.

Here is a list of the benefits which a business can avail in the long run through the deployment of DevOps.

1. Faster, quicker deployment of new systems and apps: If your business has successfully launched DevOps, it’s getting ready for the next level of deployment. Through the right approaches, an organization can benefit by deploying their new systems in a more enhanced, efficient manner, while keeping the efficiency intact. This way, innovation and continual deployment becomes synonymous with each other, thereby making the deployment easier and quicker.

2. Agility is the key: Agility is needed to bring about transformation within a business. Through DevOps, even the big organizations can achieve scalability required in transforming their business more Agile. In other words, everyone wins.

3. DevOps translates into money: DevOps can help automate repetitive tasks without having to worry too much about errors. For example, regression and performance testing can bring about a small change in a rapid manner. Frequent backups and rollovers help in the development of a more robust and stable process. With such automations in place, an organization benefits by saving manual costs, which mean higher monetary savings.

4. Silos can no longer exist with DevOps: Innovation and silos are a thing of the past. These days, there is a lot more to innovation than what meets the eye. Since there was no link between developers and operations, innovation was carried out in seclusion, making things all the more elusive and secretive. However, as times have changed, so have the methods of performing innovation. With increased interaction levels between teams, which include developers and operations, there is a lot of exposure and transparency between teams, making it a useful collaboration. Exclusivity carried out by agile methodologies has given a new meaning to innovation, making things all the more advantageous for the members of the organizations. In a typical IT world, there can be different barriers, which need to be brought down with the right approach. By the introduction of DevOps, old linear processes can be demolished, while the newer more organized processes can be brought into force.

5. Faster development cycles for the organizations: DevOps rests on two main keywords, namely collaboration and communication. As soon as both these features are enhanced, there is an automatic improvement in the development cycles, making it into a success story it deserves to be.

6. Continuous service delivery: With a quicker turnaround of development cycles, codes are also released into the production cycles quickly. The gaps between requirement gathering and production are reduced significantly, causing a massive shift in the production cycles. Through such methodologies, production cycles are often synchronized with IT mechanisms to make them more streamlined and effective. For this purpose, an effective DevOps mechanism is often needed to create a robust method of efficiency.

7. Adieu defects: In an application production environment, defects are an app’s worst enemy. However, with the intervention of DevOps, defects become next to negligible, making it an instant solution for most problems. Through collaboration, modular programming and iterative development, defects are often minimized, making it a fool proof technique to handle defects. With digital transformation paving the path for minimizing defects, there are endless opportunities being pursued to reduce defects and enable efficiency within each and every organizational vertical.

With so many benefits being achieved through DevOps, there is no denying the fact that DevOps is the future of the production cycles. Given the right implementation, a lot can be achieved in a short span of time, making the production of apps more effective and foolproof.

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Tailoring Your DevOps Transformation to Organizational Culture – Idexcel DevOps Roundup

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1. Tailoring Your DevOps Transformation to Organizational Culture

In the ‘2016 State of DevOps Report’ the Westrum Model [1] of organizational culture is proposed. It focuses on information flow, high cooperation and trust as predictive factors of DevOps success in a company. It is a perfect future state design tool which, however, tells little about where your company is at the moment. Moreover, it does not suggest how to influence an organizational culture and in which direction it should change. Read more…

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With the increasing popularity of microservices, more and more is being said about Continuous Delivery. There are many interesting books and articles about that subject. There are also many tools and solutions that can help set up a Continuous Delivery environment. Read more…

3. DevOps done right: Why work-life balance matters to digital transformation success

As enterprises in every industry grapple with digital transformation, and fixate on meeting user demands for always-on services, IT departments find themselves under growing pressure to perform and deliver. Read more…

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One of my main roles is improving the security of the software produced by my employer, and it was in that role that I attended the annual gathering of the security industry in San Francisco last week. The RSA Conference is one of the two global security conferences I attend, the other being Blackhat. While Blackhat has become more corporate, it’s still dominated by hackers and focuses more on vulnerabilities, whereas RSA is very much a corporate event focused on enterprise security and security policy. Read more…

5. Finance industry leading the way in DevOps implementations, research says

Financial services firms are embracing DevOps approaches and best practices more quickly than other industries, according to new research from managed services provider Claranet. Read more…

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1. Driving Innovation with DevOps

DevOps isn’t just about working faster, more effectively, and at a lower cost. A big part DevOps is also about driving business innovation. Sure, DevOps correctly applied is known to cut costs and reduce downtime, but as this Rackspace 2014 survey found, DevOps is also, across many organizations, increasing sales as well as employee and customer engagement.

But DevOps is also enabling organizations to deploy more capabilities more quickly. As the most recent Puppet Labs DevOps report contends, DevOps organizations are deploying updates 30 times more rapidity and with fewer failures. And they’re recovering 168 times faster from failures and have 60 times fewer failures due to code changes. “What we are seeing is the quality and speed has definitely increased. So people are producing changes that are of higher quality and changes that require fewer rollbacks,” said Nigel Kersten, CIO at Puppet Labs. in this interview with Ericka Chickowski. Continue reading…

2. What does #DevOps mean to the roles of Change & Release managers?

One of our team raised this question in our internal #DevOps Slack channel this week and it sparked off an interesting discussion that we thought was worth sharing with a wider audience.

Firstly, let’s start with one of my favourite definitions of DevOps:

“DevOps is just ITIL with 90% of stuff moved to ‘Standard Change’ because we automated the crap out of it” – TheOpsMgr

Now that’s a bit tongue in cheek, obviously, as the scope of DevOps in a CALMS model world is probably wider than just that but it’s not a bad way to start explaining it to someone from a long-term ITIL background. Continue reading…

3. DevOps Isn’t a Job. But It’s Still Important

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That’s the way it was at Munder Capital Management when J. Wolfgang Goerlich joined the Midwestern financial services company in 2005. Continue reading…

4. How devops will change the way that you think and work

Devops is exciting for developers, and can also be scary. It will change what you need to know and the skills you need in order to succeed. Doing devops requires that you learn new tools and embrace deep cultural changes to the way that you think and work. You’ll have to adapt to new processes in the shorter term, while also anticipating long-term organizational changes. Adopting devops means you’ll learn to work differently than you have before, alongside other developers and sysadmins who are also making this big shift. Continue reading…

5. A Sneak Peek of DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015

The DevOps Enterprise Summit (#DOES15) will gather the best practitioners, thinkers, and innovators in the DevOps space. Whether you’re well on your way in your own efforts to adopt DevOps practices, or just beginning to wonder whether DevOps isn’t something you should try, this is the event to accelerate your DevOps journey.

On stage will be leaders from Target, Disney, Nationwide, Nordstrom, Capital One, Raytheon Software, CSG, and many other organizations across a variety of sectors. These are individuals working in large-scale, complex environments who have dealt with the same problems you are struggling with now. Some of them are returning from last year to share their progress. Continue reading…