With each evolution creating new opportunities in technology, customer expectations maintain a relentless pace of always wanting more. Organizations and employees alike demand that products and application features are distributed wherever and whenever required. Execution of projects is at risk continuously falling behind missed milestones or lost business imperatives. All this, of course, can be avoided with DevOps wielding its strategic and philosophic impact as an influencer on deliverables.
For some time now, DevOps has been one of the biggest enterprise trends, fulfilling the concept and execution in helping companies satisfy their customer demands by bringing together, unique teams in order to facilitate better project collaboration and innovation.
We have discovered three areas of challenge when transforming our clients to Salesforce. With deep-experienced software engineers on board, our team remains laser focused on supporting your rollout and minimizing the three most popular challenges we work with company’s to resolve.
DevOps impact measured
Deloitte has recently reported the impact of a DevOps team results in an 18% to 21% reduction in time to market alone.
With the removal of impediments to software development, and streamlining of operations, businesses are able to react faster to meet market demands. Simultaneously, automation allows for companies to align their business objectives and processes to quickly recover from IT failures. In that same report, Deloitte mentions the end result of a customer friendly and timely run to market led to a 20% revenue increase.
While the positives on results are clear, DevOps still faces challenges in its rate of adoption for large scale business. This is not for lack of the tools available, it is more so about rebooting embedded cultural habits, transforming old processes and gaining company trust that all changes will be made for the right reasons.
Cultural habits and their deep-rooted hold
DevOps is not just a team; it is a culture of collaboration yielding a new set of best practices and a shift in operation culture.
In order to ensure no pushback would come from employees resistant to any change, company leadership must be onboard straight from the top. Breaking down silos and dismantling the status quo are keys to a successful implementation. With each announced positive result, motivation increases amongst the employees as they are seen as concrete and observable changes to be welcomed. Gartner states that 88% of businesses put team culture as one of the top impacts when an organization scales DevOps successfully.
Introducing more efficient processes
Mapping processes to see what is and isn’t working is the best way to identify inefficiencies. This usually starts with looking for waste areas containing resources that are being exhausted yet are not delivering real value.
Add to this, a silo-influenced lack of communication which significantly slows down the thinking that DevOps is not there for any of them, leaving departments to falsely assume DevOps is not their responsibility. It is not just the software developers that need to embrace DevOps; this process brings together development teams and other stakeholders to achieve a common goal, delivering product to market, quicker and with higher quality.
DevOps changes must be for the right reasons
Every task element of a company doesn’t always need to be streamlined or automated. More often than not, companies will select one or two department to do a trail run with a DevOps approach
Most times it is with the development team. While the natural temptation is to scale as soon as positive results are met, different departments have different needs and challenges. These must be taken into account prior to implementing a DevOps rollout. Consideration needs to be given to specific business needs to avoid a rudderless trend rolling out to a null effect. Know the objectives clearly prior to engaging in any sweeping overhauls.
Final thoughts
Customers are constantly looking for solutions to fix their problems. Our contribution is in the understanding of companies that a professional team will deploy best practices at all times in order to ensure a successful project outcome is achieved.
