DevOps or DevOops: Are you really ready for digital transformation?

Is DevOps becoming the status quo for software enabled companies? DevOps have become so mainstream and every company is making hefty investments on tools. The demand for DevOps in the organization is high and need of the hour to survive the cutthroat competition, but it is not something that can be adopted by an average team just like that.

I was surprised by the fact that even some of Fortune 500 companies are failing in the process of bringing DevOps into practice. Is it because of too much focus on outcomes and forgetting the basics? It is high time to measure various metrics and evaluate your organization's digital transformation process.

"Only 22% of organizations said they have merged their teams for managing infrastructure, operations, and development" - 2nd watch DevOps Survey,2018.

 The core principle of DevOps philosophy is to bring collaboration between development and operation team, but according to 2nd watch DevOps survey results “Only 22% of organizations said they have merged their teams for managing infrastructure, operations, and development.”

This is a wakeup call for organizations that believe DevOps implementation is a cakewalk. DevOps success is just the tip of the Iceberg, There is a strong team, hard work, balanced infrastructure and a focused leader underneath every company that is successfully practicing DevOps/Agile methodology. Only a few enterprises like Amazon, Netflix, Target, Etsy have mastered the art of DevOps.

Here, few key learning from DevOps success cases:

1. Culture, Not Tool: DevOps is all about culture, not tool. It is the People of the organization who can adopt the culture and help the organization transform digitally. It is more crucial to focus on training and building an intelligent and passionate team than investing millions on tools. The team includes every stakeholder of the company, not just developers and QA team.

2. Stick to the Basics, Success will follow: It is important to have clarity on the basics of Test Automation, CD/CI Pipeline, Agile. Start from scratch, set and track metrics. Companies can’t continuously deliver without continuous testing. In a recent survey by Sauce labs state that "more than 50% said it takes a few days or more to fix the Bugs"

3. Identify the Real Problem, Define SMART Goals: Spend adequate time in understanding organization need and define DevOps goals. 80% Digital transformation failures are due to 20% cause. Most organization fail to identify the real problems. Without finding the root causes of problems, companies cannot reap the best results from DevOps implementation.

 “ DevOps is essentially identifying every specific pain point that needs improvement and adjusting the existing process, followed by a plan to do things differently to take the company into the future.” - George Spafford, research director at Gartner

Bottom Line: Questioning is the only way to find the Solution, Question the organization’s readiness for digital transformation. Identify your needs; Identify the problem & Set goals; Train, educate & prepare your organization before taking it for a paradigm shift.

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