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Challenges of DevOps Adoption

Top 3 Challenges of DevOps Adoption

By: Rodrigo Albuquerque on September 26, 2019 Leave a Comment

Customer expectations continue to relentlessly rise as new technological opportunities emerge. Today, organizations demand products and application features are delivered and implemented wherever and whenever needed. Everywhere you look, execution is at risk of falling behind imaginations and business imperatives. That is, of course, unless DevOps is starting to wield a strategic and philosophic influence.

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DevOps has been one of the hottest enterprise trends for some time now, and a crucial concept in helping companies satisfy customer demands by bringing teams together to fuel better collaboration and innovation.

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According to Deloitte, organizations adopting DevOps see an 18% to 21% reduction in time to market.

By removing the waste that impedes software development, operations are streamlined, and businesses can react faster to market demands. At the same time, automation enables companies to align business objectives with processes to immediately recover from IT failures. Deloitte also reports the speedy, DevOps-influenced, customer-friendly release of new products and services led to a 20% revenue increase.

While that is all good, DevOps is still a new topic to many. Large scale adoption is generally slow. It is important to note DevOps is not simply the implementation of new tools. It is about rebooting deep-rooted cultural habits, transforming old processes and ensuring all changes are made for the right reasons. Don’t embrace DevOps for the sake of it. Only proceed if you have clarity and purpose.

Breaking of the Deep-Rooted, Cultural Habits

DevOps is not a team. It is a culture of collaboration that yields a set of best practices and operational cultures. Sometimes companies wanting to adopt a DevOps approach are met with resistance from employees uncomfortable with change. Leadership needs to come from the top. Executives must support employees in dismantling the status quo and breaking down silos hindering successful implementation. Motivation rises when results are positive, concrete and observable. There is no magic formula but, if you get the right leadership and culture in place, chances are DevOps will land with resonance. Gartner reports 88% of businesses believe team culture is one of the top impacts on an organization’s ability to scale DevOps.

Changing Well Defined Processes to More Efficient Ones

The best way to identify inefficiencies is to map processes and recognize what is and isn’t working. Start by looking for waste–areas where resources are being exhausted without delivering real value. A silo-influenced lack of communication can significantly slow down businesses and there is a risk each department will think DevOps is not their responsibility. Some may be resistant to implementing change, which will cause unnecessary lags within the business. It is vital to understand it is not just the responsibility of software developers to ensure the processes work for them. DevOps is a process that brings development teams and other IT stakeholders together to achieve one common goal: delivering faster, higher quality work to market.

Beware of DevOps for DevOps Sake

With DevOps, companies can streamline and automate every task. That doesn’t mean it’s right for every element of every business. Often, companies will pick a couple of departments to trial a DevOps approach with–usually the development team. The temptation is then to continue scaling across the organization as soon as positive results are apparent. The issue here is that different departments all have different needs and challenges and, as we’ve already said, effective DevOps rollout requires an overhaul of processes and ways of working. Organizations need to be careful and think about specific business needs, instead of just being engaged in a rudderless trend chase. Know your objectives before engaging in sweeping overhauls. Keep learning and, above all, stay tuned to customer needs.

— Rodrigo Albuquerque

Filed Under: Blogs, DevOps Culture, DevOps Practice, Enterprise DevOps, Leadership Suite Tagged With: development team, devops, devops best practices, devops culture

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