Is your DevOps Journey heading the right way?

Current State: Calibrations and Assessments

Like a sailor using a compass to calibrate the ship’s direction, organizations need to reassess their journey at every checkpoint. It’s essential to ensure that our journey is on track and is heading in the right direction. But, unfortunately, we have seen organizations making mistakes that never allow them to reach their target goal or full potential. 

Risks :

With the advent of automation tools, organizations are automating stages in a CICD pipeline to deliver software fast. Unfortunately, the DevOps toolchain can become complex and unwieldy. Plugging in quick fix platforms and automation to your existing system might later become a nightmare for the development and testing team. This change is going to affect enterprises and needs to be treated with utmost importance. An improper implementation will lead to further constraints in the system. . It will further aggravate into an increased overhead cost and additional utilization of resources. In the end, organizations move away from the goal of faster delivering unknowingly.

Need for calibrations and assessments :

An assessment helps the organization get back on track because it will highlight the organization’s current state, and it will also highlight the potential for improvement. Having a clear and aligned view of the issues faced by the organization helps prioritize the best steps to tackle first. It also gives everyone a voice in the change, which increases the chance of success.

Benefits from an assessment

Organizations stand to achieve better product quality, reliable releases, faster time to market, improved team collaboration, and reduced costs if a CICD is implemented the right way and with the right approach by setting up the foundations first.

An assessment will provide organizations with visibility into their processes which will help them in many ways. Some of them are:

1. Exposé of current silos in the organization
2. Bottlenecks in a software delivery pipeline that can be automated
3. Productivity improvement opportunities for the whole team involved in the delivery journey

Added benefits from expert assessments

Self-assessments are an excellent way to begin the transformative journey, but they may result in a myopic view of the system regarding technology and process. With the help of experts, they can unlock further benefits by getting insights, recommendations, and best practices that can transcend their deployment process to the next level of efficiency and quality. 

The Recommendations may not be limited only to the following items. 

1. A pipeline of low-hanging fruits that the organizations can perform to achieve instant benefits.
2. Detailed and customized roadmaps for CICD implementation and possible alternatives as well.
3. A set of catalogs of  recommendations on time-bound & Cost-effective tools based on the current processes practiced within the organization.

An audit report from experts will enable stakeholders to plan and implement proper practices & tools to make their teams competent & competitive. We at OpsMx take a step further and provide estimates on your return on investment as well. We can do this because of our experience in helping many organizations achieve that ideal CICD process.

Outcomes from an Assessments

Tangible outcomes can be realized within days taking the first step towards CICD modernization. Here is a list of results the organizations achieve at a minimum.

• On-demand multiple deployments a day.
• Lead time for changes reduced to less than a day.
• Restoration from failed deployments within minutes
• Increased collaboration between departments
• Improved quality and performance of the application
• Reduced time to market
• Reduction in spending on development, testing & operations
• Lean teams developing & deploying software (due to automation)
• Reduced IT infrastructure costs

The OpsMx advantage for your DevOps journey 

Many of our customers reached out to us with various issues they were facing with their existing CICD process. Some of them had trouble with delivery speeds, whereas others were worried about security issues and rising costs. Some were worried about a modernizing risk that made them nervous about adopting a new CICD journey.

Read about these customer stories here on how we tackled these issues from them.

Before we jump into the process of CICD modernization, we always assess their state and capability, as the assessment unearths the gaps within the organization concerning their CI-CD practices. This is achieved by asking the right questions to the right people. The stakeholders would provide information on all the questions. When these answers seem insufficient, there will always be multiple rounds of follow-up questions before we start to carefully analyze and gauge the current state of the CI-CD process.