Bridge the gap with DevOps
Are IT organizational issues slowing your time to market?
Getting products and services to market quickly is a new top requirement in today’s digital economy. Yet relationships between traditional applications development teams and technology operations are often tenuous at best, downright toxic at worst.
The result: Many IT organizations today struggle to deliver reliable, supportable applications on time — and at an affordable cost.
Behind this challenge is a true clash of cultures. App-dev teams focus on change, speed and innovation. But operations teams focus on stability, reliability and availability. Put them together, and the result is a great deal of friction.
The DevOps Movement
If that sounds like your organization, rest assured, a solution is possible.
But to deliver innovation through the delivery of new and enhanced services and improve the value of business applications — especially in today’s mobile and cloud-based environments — your organizations will need to confront, then overcome, the traditional “dev vs. ops” barriers.
The DevOps movement arose to get development and operations teams working jointly to deliver business value. DevOps defines a set of principles and methods to foster collaboration. These include a special focus on quality, testing, automation and collaboration.
Mindset Movement
Changing the traditional mindsets of development and operations is important, too. Both sides must adopt new views. Developers need to add a new focus on application maintainability. Operations workers need to adopt the Agile approach of smaller, more frequent releases, and see how this approach can actually lower risk, increase control and deliver far greater value to the business.
Done right, DevOps fosters cooperation and continuity. It also enables both development and operations teams to share baselines and information.
Read the full paper to learn more about:
- How the continuity challenge can slow application development — precisely at the time it needs to be faster than ever
- The most effective ways of addressing the DevOps gap
- Why quality, testing, automation and collaboration are the prerequisites for DevOps and continuous delivery