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In today’s world, business agility is essential to stay competitive. Quick responses to business needs through efficient development and deployment practices are critical for business value delivery.
Organizations are looking to DevOps as an approach to rapidly deliver changes, but they often lack the foundations to use DevOps effectively.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Even in a highly tool-centric view, it is the appreciation of DevOps core principles that will determine your success in implementing its practices.

Impact and Result

Understand the basics of DevOps-related improvements.
Assess the health and conduciveness of software delivery process through Info-Tech Research Group’s MATURE framework.

Implement DevOps Practices That Work Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should implement DevOps, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Implement DevOps Practices That Work – Executive Brief

1. Examine your current state

Understand the current state of your software delivery process and categorize existing challenges in it.

2. MATURE your delivery lifecycle

Brainstorm solutions using Info-Tech Research Group’s MATURE framework.

3. Choose the right metrics and tools for your needs

Identify metrics that are insightful and valuable. Determine tools that can help with DevOps practices implementation.

4. Select horizons for improvement

Lay out a schedule for enhancements for your software process to make it ready for DevOps.

Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

9.1/10

Overall Impact

$41,131

Average $ Saved

20

Average Days Saved

Client

Experience

Impact

$ Saved

Days Saved

Testimonial

Clayton Homes

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

20

Financial Consumer Agency of Canada

Workshop

8/10

$100K

50

Best - Great involvement of all participants as well as guest speaker. Worse - Can't think of a worse moment.

Department of Justice Canada

Workshop

8/10

$75,000

41

Liked the exchange of information/experience between the different teams at Justice. Made clear that Agile and DevOps requires maturity and will take time to implement. Gave us some good discussion points to have discussions with senior management about ...

Transport Canada

Workshop

7/10

N/A

N/A

Loved the active participation and candor of the participants. The lack of participation of other key groups, which made this more of a preaching to the converted type of exercise.

Kuvare US Holdings

Workshop

10/10

$62,999

10

Last 2 questions were purely SWAG.

Sharonview Federal Credit Union

Workshop

9/10

$1,259

20

Going into this workshop with very little experience or exposure with DevOps Usman provided fantastic material, depth and understandable examples we can use to move forward with our internal objectives. His knowledge in the topic was extensive and his f...

Rotary International

Workshop

8/10

$31,499

16

The best part was that our architects, infrastructure team and management got to hear from our QA team. This team is extremely critical and often not represented. Quality should be at the core of what we do and is often overlooked. The worst part of t...

Stratascale

Guided Implementation

10/10

$3,719

2

National Archives and Records Administration

Workshop

10/10

$61,999

10

The best part of the workshop was the executive summary at the end. This helped to shape future presentations and sessions.

Columbia Mutual Insurance Company

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

Extremely valuable, but impossible to say at this point the amount of time or financial impact.

Apogee Enterprises, Inc

Guided Implementation

9/10

N/A

N/A

I was provided with a great starting point for this topic. Just the right amount of information for what I can digest at this time.

The University Of Manchester

Guided Implementation

10/10

$6,858

10

Best: Surprising amounts of useful and impactful work produced. Far better than experience on a similar project with Gartner. Worst: Internet connection sometimes was a bit unstable for Teams calls.

Cross Country Mortgage, Inc.

Guided Implementation

10/10

$17,979

6

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Workshop

10/10

$50,000

50

Statistics Canada

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

Christie?s Inc.

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

Computershare Loan Services

Guided Implementation

10/10

$125K

55

Lots of possibilities surfaced! To realize benefits the advisors need to provide what they promised.

Allstate Non Insurance Holdings Inc

Workshop

9/10

$125K

20

The best parts were opening my eyes to areas I either couldn't see, or didn't know how to get to. The worst part was dedicating time, space, and attendance for the entirety of the workshop.

State of Ohio - Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities

Guided Implementation

2/10

N/A

N/A

Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

Workshop

8/10

N/A

N/A

We needed a mechanism to engage all stakeholders and develop a common vision and direction for our DevOps initiative. It was far more effective to have this led by a third party. They brought outside knowledge and experience we do not yet have, and are...

Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications

Guided Implementation

1/10

N/A

N/A

Barry-Wehmiller

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

Great industry and practice experts on the call.. good advice on topic and how to use the documentation.. no worst parts Thank you

City Of Mesa

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

Apega

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

very useful. Enjoyed the time, found some useful info that will help me move forward.

Statistics New Zealand

Guided Implementation

8/10

N/A

N/A

Government Employees Health Association Inc

Guided Implementation

10/10

$31,833

20

Great interaction and exchange of ideas.

University Of Regina

Guided Implementation

9/10

$25,000

10

Hans was a perfect fit for the level of discussion I wanted to have. I will schedule a follow up call to discuss appropriate org models, skills, culture, and so forth. The worst part, if you want to call it that, was that we eventually ran out of time. Easily solved.

Hamilton Health Sciences

Guided Implementation

1/10

N/A

N/A

the analyst was unprepared and provided no structured materials for discussion, the call was ended short due to lack of value

Sherritt International Corporation

Guided Implementation

7/10

N/A

N/A

The analyst was well prepared and knowledgeable on the topic being discussed, however after discussing DevOps with him, I don't think it is what we are looking to implement quite yet. As an organization we don't have the processes in place that a DevOps...

Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

Guided Implementation

7/10

$8,000

2

My team didn't realize that we should have reviewed the material in advance. If we had done that, I think we would have derived more value from this call. I think the material looks very good - we just didn't prepare properly to engage on some of the p...

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Workshop: Implement DevOps Practices That Work

Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

Module 1: Examine Your Current State

The Purpose

Set the context for improvement.

Key Benefits Achieved

Provide a great foundation for an actionable vision and goals that people can align to.

Activities

Outputs

1.1

Review the outcome of the DevOps Readiness Survey.

Baseline assessment of the organization’s readiness for introducing DevOps principles in its delivery process

1.2

Articulate the current-state delivery process.

1.3

Categorize existing challenges using PEAS.

A categorized list of challenges currently evident in the delivery process

Module 2: MATURE Your Delivery Lifecycle

The Purpose

Brainstorm solutions using the MATURE framework.

Key Benefits Achieved

Collaborative list of solutions to challenges that are restricting/may restrict adoption of DevOps in your organization.

Activities

Outputs

2.1

Brainstorm solutions for identified challenges.

A list of solutions that will enhance the current delivery process into one which is influenced by DevOps principles

2.2

Understand different DevOps topologies within the context of strong communication and collaboration.

(Optional) Identify a team topology that works for your organization.

Module 3: Choose the Right Metrics and Tools for Your Needs

The Purpose

Select metrics and tools for your DevOps-inspired delivery pipeline.

Key Benefits Achieved

Enable your team to select the right metrics and tool chain that support the implementation of DevOps practices.

Activities

Outputs

3.1

Identify metrics that are sensible and provide meaningful insights into your organization’s DevOps transition.

A list of metrics that will assist in measuring the progress of your organization’s DevOps transition

3.2

Determine the set of tools that satisfy enterprise standards and can be used to implement DevOps practices.

A list of tools that meet enterprise standards and enhance delivery processes

3.3

(Optional) Assess DevOps pipeline maturity.

Module 4: Define Your Release, Communication, and Next Steps

The Purpose

Build a plan laying out the work needed to be done for implementing the necessary changes to your organization.

Key Benefits Achieved

Roadmap of steps to take in the coming future.

Activities

Outputs

4.1

Create a roadmap for future-state delivery process.

Roadmap for future-state delivery process

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Guided Implementation 1: Examine your current state

Call 1: Discuss DevOps Readiness Assessment result.
Call 2: Discuss existing delivery process.
Call 3: Categorize identified challenges.

Guided Implementation 2: MATURE your delivery lifecycle

Call 1: Brainstorm solutions to identified challenges.
Call 2: Discuss possible team topologies for DevOps.

Guided Implementation 3: Choose the right metrics and tools for your needs

Call 1: Identify metrics that are useful and insightful.
Call 2: Conceptualize a delivery pipeline for DevOps.

Guided Implementation 4: Select horizons for improvement

Call 1: Make a roadmap for DevOps transition.

Author

Usman Lakhani

Contributors

Stephen Elliott, SVP IT Innovation and Decision Optimization, Sedgwick

Search Code: 75643
Last Revised: September 14, 2021

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