Companies operating in the field of software development have ushered into an era of stiff challenges and expectations, unprecedented till now. Possessing the qualities of agility, accuracy and speed simultaneously are becoming imperative for survival rather than a means of maintaining a competitive edge. Under the circumstances, a DevOps culture provides a flexible, efficient approach of standing up to the demands. It does so by following a model that delivers results leveraging the dependencies that exist between the software development and operations aspects of software delivery.

2. Companies operating in the field of software development have
ushered into an era of stiff challenges and expectations,
unprecedented till now. Possessing the qualities of agility,
accuracy and speed simultaneously are becoming imperative
for survival rather than a means of maintaining a competitive
edge. Under the circumstances, a DevOps culture provides a
flexible, efficient approach of standing up to the demands. It
does so by following a model that delivers results leveraging the
dependencies that exist between the software development and
operations aspects of software delivery. It balances responsibilities
more evenly than in a traditional waterfall model, where
developers simply turn completed code over to those in charge of
operations. DevOps also establishes procedures to ensure that all
team members have insights into application performance, which
provides benefits such as greater collaboration and engagement
between team members.

3. Improved Collaboration
Traditional software development happens in phases. There are
teams mapped to each phase and each team is entrusted with the
responsibility of playing its part in the successful completion of the
phase it is involved in or responsible for. The result of this
approach is that the ownership of a team gets too confined only to
the successful execution of the part it deals with. Thus, each team
tends to be most concerned with achieving its own objectives
instead of meeting the organization’s ultimate business goals. As
long as projects get executed successfully, the fissures that exist
beneath do not come to the forefront. It is only in the moments of
crisis that the lack of synergy becomes apparent and sometimes
takes gigantic proportions resulting in the partial or complete
derailment of projects.

4. DevOps neutralizes this possibility completely. The approach
requires all team members to be equally dedicated in meeting the
broad goals while also focussing on their individual ones. This
leads to improving collaboration between people across the
development and operations teams. This model eliminates the
possibility of working in silos. Members across teams remain fully
committed to the software throughout its development life cycle to
ensure that their project’s overall goals are met. Accountability for
successful delivery lies with all. This compels employees to get
more involved in working together.

5. More Engagement
One of the primary goals of DevOps is to shorten the development
life cycle while still delivering software that meets business
objectives. The shorter development cycle essentially means a
higher frequency of code releases followed by exposing these
releases to scrutiny for the detection of bugs within the code,
infrastructure and configuration. The pace at which things get
done is brisk. There are no slack periods for teams anymore waiting
for their phases to begin. All this brings about a high degree of
engagement for all the members involved in a project. And it can
be intense at times. The results are equally impressive. Industry
reports have indicated that the failure rate of organizations with a
DevOps culture is 60 times lower than those that don’t.

6. Higher Efficiency
DevOps uses a workflow that emphasizes on continuous delivery
(CD) and continuous integration (CI). The efficiency that gets
infused results in software getting delivered faster and with a
higher frequency. Automated testing and integration tools are also
key elements in DevOps practices. It makes the IT staff more
efficient by eliminating the need for them to perform repetitive
tasks. Developers no longer need to wait for code integration
processes to complete, which can otherwise get quite time-
consuming.
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