Enterprises around the world are rapidly embracing DevOps, and for good reason. Undergoing a DevOps transformation requires organizations to address waste and inefficiencies while enabling them to increase deployment frequencies, maintain high standards of quality, and centralize compliance.
Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise by Gary Gruver, a former senior DevOps executive with companies like Hewlett-Packard and macy’s.com, explores every step of the DevOps journey—from optimizing basic deployment pipelines through scaling within and beyond different team structures and more. In the last chapter of his book, he looks specifically at some of the real effects that a DevOps transformation can have on large enterprises. We have highlighted them here for you.
Big projects have always been notoriously difficult to manage. With traditional development models, enterprises find themselves setting up a variety of checkpoints and scheduling long meetings to coordinate ongoing work.
Establishing a robust deployment pipeline changes the game:
Relying on a rigorous deployment pipeline enables your enterprise to effectively automate the implementation and tracking of changes, while codified approval processes support more repeatable release criteria.
Keep in mind that your automation may not be perfect at the outset. What matters is that, once you make the fixes you need, you can depend on processes being executed properly virtually 100% of the time. As Gruver says, “This approach really takes advantage of what computers do very well, which is repeat the same thing, the same way, every single time.”
In the forward he wrote for Gruver’s book, Jez Humble, a fellow DevOps evangelist and author of Continuous Delivery, makes an observation:
Using continuous delivery, we can build products whose success derives from a collaborative, experimental approach to product development. Everybody in the team contributes to discovering how to produce the best user and organizational outcomes. End users benefit enormously when we can work with them from early on in the delivery process and iterate rapidly, changing the design of systems in response to their feedback, and delivering the most important features from early on in the product lifecycle.
For all the process-related benefits it brings, DevOps’ greatest potential is perhaps its ability to make organizations quicker and more agile. Teams can deploy releases and updates more efficiently and deal with issues more rapidly, which means better results and higher, more consistent revenues.
Read our previous blog to learn more about the ROI of enterprise DevOps.
A managed DevOps toolchain is the smarter solution for automating software development and delivery:
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