DevOps represents a change in IT culture that focuses on rapid delivery of IT services through adopting agile and lean practices. It emphasizes collaboration between development and operations teams. The need for DevOps is growing as businesses need to simultaneously deploy applications across platforms and release apps more quickly to meet customer demand and improve their experience. Key components of DevOps include automated testing, use of agile development, collaborative teaming between development and operations, and aligned processes. The top skills needed for DevOps are knowledge of business priorities, communication skills, and knowledge of current business processes. The main benefits of DevOps include improved time-to-market, more frequent deployments, improved quality, and potentially more revenue and customers. Common barriers to Dev

1. Creating an Agile
Organisation
through DevOps
WHAT IS DEVOPS?
"DevOps represents a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of
agile, lean practices in the context of a system-oriented approach. DevOps emphasizes people (and
culture), and seeks to improve collaboration between operations and development teams."
Definition Credits: Gartner
MOST IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF DEVOPS
Need for DevOps
Is Growing
70% say there is a greater need
for DevOps now than in the past
70%
What Drives the Need for DevOps?
Need for simultaneous
deployment across
different platforms
41% 41%
Pressures from the
business to release apps
more quickly to meet
customer demand
Need to improve the end
customer experience
39% 35%
Increased use of mobile
devices
TEST AUTOMATION
52%
47%
45%
42%
32%
32%
25%
4%
IT Automation
Agile Development
Collaborative Teaming Between Dev &
Ops
Service Virtualisation
Accelerated Applications Testing
Continuous Release Cycles
Aligned Processes Across Dev & Ops
Pre-Production Performance Testing
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
SOURCES:
TechInsights Report: What Smart Businesses Know About DevOps
Quali - Annual DevOps Survey, 2016
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TOP 3 SKILLS NEEDED FOR DEVOPS KEY BENEFITS OF DEVOPS
41%
Knowledge of business
priorities/strategies/metrics
36%
Communication skills
42%
Knowledge of current
business processes
20%
Improvement in
time-to-market
Improvement in
frequency of
deployments
Improvement in
quality
22%
17%
19%
MORE REVENUE
MORE
CUSTOMERS
22%
TOP BARRIERS TO DEVOPS
Continuous testing is very
important. It should not be
an afterthought.
MANAGING ENVIRONMENTS
Standardize and automate
complex DevOps
environments with cloud
NO DEVOPS PLAN
Lack of a clear plan with
milestones and well-defined
deliverables
OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES
Lack of standardized and
common operational
procedures
TOOL-SET
Fragmented tool-set
adoption