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Implementing DevOps to bring your teams together involves a combination of cultural, organizational, and technical challenges. We can help.

What is DevOps?

Traditionally, the responsibilities for the delivery of software systems was usually broken down into two teams; Development and Operations.

The development silo traditionally refers to the team responsible for writing and coding software applications. This team typically includes software engineers, developers, architects, and testers. Their primary focus is on creating new features, fixing bugs, and improving the functionality of the software based on business requirements and user feedback. Development teams often prioritize speed and innovation, aiming to deliver new features and updates to users as quickly as possible.

The operations silo, on the other hand, encompasses the team responsible for deploying and maintaining software applications in production environments. This team includes system administrators, network engineers, database administrators, and IT support staff. Their main tasks involve managing servers, configuring networks, monitoring performance, ensuring security, and troubleshooting issues that arise in production. Operations teams typically prioritize stability and reliability, aiming to keep the systems running smoothly and minimize downtime for users.

The DevOps concept gained momentum around the mid-2000s as organizations sought to improve collaboration, communication, and integration between these two functions to enable faster and more reliable software delivery.

What are the benefits?

Building out cross-functional, collaborative teams and promoting a mindset of continuous improvement and learning, where experimentation and failure are seen as opportunities for growth can significantly accelerate the delivery of software projects. Ultimately, getting feature requests, bug fixes and improvements into customers hands faster.

This acceleration gives your business the ability to react quickly to the ever-changing technology landscape, pivot quickly when new opportunities arise and generally improve overall customer satisfaction in your products and your business.

How do you implement DevOps?

Unfortunately, there is no "one size fits all" approach to DevOps, and no standard set of instructions which are going to work for every situation. Successful implementation is going to depend on your current team structures, cultures and the nature of the solutions your business delivers.

We can help analyse your current situation and build an action plan of how you can implement DevOps effectively across the following areas:-

  • Fostering a culture of shared responsibility, open communication and transparency.
  • Align goals and incentives across teams to encourage collaboration rather than individual achievements.
  • Implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the software delivery process and enable frequent, reliable releases.
  • Establish feedback loops throughout the development and operations lifecycle to gather insights and identify areas for improvement.
  • Integrate security and compliance practices into the DevOps workflow from the beginning.
  • Encouraging a culture of experimentation and innovation, where teams are empowered to try new approaches and technologies.

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