Valuable DevOps Lessons For Enterprises

DevOps, in many ways, has changed the way IT looks at Agile. This change in perception has provided IT with many lessons to share with global enterprises. In the agile world, market demands have become more critical and business cycles much faster. Keeping in mind such scenario, DevOps has contributed to the agile world by shortening the time between idea and product; moreover, it has introduced flexibility and speed into global IT organizations.

With respect to DevOps, organizations are faced with two major challenges : stability and flexibility. Both of these challenges can become a real issue if DevOps has been implemented improperly. That’s why the role of IT has become quite important to the enterprise during the implementation of this agile process.

Many organizations have found DevOps to be an efficient and productive approach to IT; as a result, IT has learnt many lessons through experience that can benefit the rest of the organization.

Lesson 1: It’s a United Team

In many enterprises, the “operational” and “creative” people often create two camps that don’t interact with each other very much. Where in the DevOps world, there are no true separate camps: The creative team members including designers and developers are expected to look after operational tasks, while the operational teams are expected provide ideas and suggestions into the design and development.

Sharp divisions between team functions may become the reason for poor communications, reduced quality, and delays. As compared to that mixing up roles and responsibilities can deliver productive outcomes in DevOps in the long run.

Lesson 2: Appropriate Tools Make the JobMuch Easier

One of the things that can create challenges for enterprises is a tool set that differs from one group to another within a team or department. The days are long gone where the operational and creative team used to operate with different word processors, and neither of the team members could understand the file format of their counterpart; however, one can find many cases in which workgroups are operating with the same tool set to share data or interact within the group and also between different groups.

Presently, workgroups can easily start utilizing various cloud service; moreover, they can easily complete their tasks in skillful manners without the compulsive need to understand the technicalities concerning the ways in which information get shared with the rest of the team members. Sharing information, communicating, and working collaboratively must be kept as much transparent as possible covering the entire organization. That’s why it is wise to use a single set of tools with respect to DevOps unless an enterprise has a compelling reason not to do so.

Lesson 3: Automation Visibility Matters

One of the important practices within efficient DevOps points to application release automation. The practice enables companies to automate the process of software-release from the development stage through the stage of testing, and finally into the stage of deployment. Application release automation demandsenhanced visibility for an enterprise’s numerous teams for its successful run.

Automation acts as a black box that can produce magical results for an enterprise. Automation for repeated processes and steps makes sense as it speeds up organizational operations, and also makes those processes and stepsless prone to error.

Lesson 4: Flexibility drives Productivity

In common organization setting, every single person has been assigned with the job description and certain job-related responsibilities. However, in the DevOps universe the scenario is little different as people’s job descriptions include doing things that are essential to ship the product.In practical manner, the job description means understanding the basics of different team tasks, and being ready to pitch in on DevOps tasks. DevOps encourages flexibility as well as accuracy with respect to job responsibilities, which in turn delivers productive outcomes.

Lesson 5: It’s not a Title

It is quite common tendency for companies to invent new titles such as “Chief Digital Officer (CDO)”whenever they are about to implement or follow something completely new within their infrastructure. However, DevOps is not a title, and it certainly does not belong to one particular person in an organization. DevOps represents a process to putAgile into practice. Give DevOps a title and it will become challenging for the entire enterprise to incorporate.

Lesson 6: It’s a Fresh Start for Every Organization

DevOps, for most enterprises, gives an opportunity to start fresh and make things right from day one. If a company gets right with DevOps, the flexibility comes automatically within a controlled, automated framework. Moreover, it provides the ability to react to changes without creating a panic situation.

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