My keynote talk at DevOps Conference organized by KnowledgeHut in Bangalore, May 26

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…

8. DevOps Drivers

9. Critical tools

10. Cultural changes

11. Barriers to adoption

12. Challenges

13. Measuring success!

14. Time to Production

15. Improvements

16. Failures and Recovery

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.