Business demands for faster and more agile IT
delivery continue to fuel interest in DevOps and
agile development methods.
—Gartner, “DevOps – Eight Simple Steps to Get It Right”, by
George Spafford, Ian Head, October 9, 2017
To be agile, legacy organizational
structures built to control costs
and dictate policy must give way to
new organizational structures that
promote high levels of collaboration,
transparency, and shared goals.
definition of DevOps is “a culture shift or a movement that encourages great
communication and collaboration to foster building better quality software
more quickly with more reliability.” DevOps is the progression of the software
development lifecycle (SDLC) from Waterfall to Agile to Lean. When we per-
form DevOps maturity assessments with our clients, we assess their maturity
across three spectrums: People, Process, and Technology.
DevOps & People
Within the people domain, we evaluate enterprises in four categories: innova-
tions, skills, culture, and collaboration. Innovation is a much overlooked area
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