The Journey to a DevOps Culture

Practical steps to successfully establishing DevOps within your organisation

The Journey
to a DevOps Culture

There are multiple aspects to successfully establishing a DevOps culture across your organisation, all of which must be considered carefully to achieve lasting, transformative change. Your organisation must therefore establish clearly defined objectives with well-specified key results. One of the first steps of this process is to establish a deep understanding of the current state of your technology solutions and the way they are consumed by your business. The next step is to develop an agile roadmap for achieving the necessary cultural and technical changes.

The following assessments, conducted with the support of a trusted partner, will provide a proven, effective framework for your organisation’s DevOps journey:

DevOps Maturity Assessment

This assessment looks at all aspects of your organisation or team to help you successfully establish a DevOps culture – from your organisation’s culture and processes to the tools you use to develop, deploy, and manage your digital platforms. You will finish with a deeper understanding of your readiness to adopt DevOps throughout your organisation and how to take your first steps along this journey.

DevOps Strategy Design & Implementation

Based on your stated business priorities, the results of your DevOps Maturity Assessment, and one-to-one consultations with your teams, we work closely with you to develop a robust strategy for DevOps adoption that considers all aspects of your company culture, including ways of working, structure of teams, tooling, etc.

Architectural Assessment

The business agility required in the modern digital landscape demands IT architectures to be service-oriented, loosely coupled and distributed to provide greater agility and the ability to respond quickly to the fast-changing world of business. As part of your DevOps adoption journey, we would therefore recommend a comprehensive assessment of your current architecture to identify and remove any potential bottlenecks, providing a launchpad for future growth.

Cloud Readiness Assessment

To establish a lasting, agile digital culture at all levels of an organisation, Cloud transformation is critical – not just in terms of the technology, but in embracing the Cloud’s underlying principles. This can be done in three ways: Private, Public, or Hybrid Cloud. A Cloud Readiness Assessment will help establish which solution – or combination of solutions – is right for you and how you can best deploy and make the most effective use of it.

Application Assessment & Refactoring

Once your DevOps and architecture strategies have been established, it is then time to assess your application portfolio and look at which applications can be left “as is”, which applications need to be refactored to increase your organisation’s agility and ability to respond quickly and safely to business demands, and finally, which applications can be retired, as they are no longer required.

Application Development Practices

Making DevOps principles a critical part of your daily operations means the way you develop your applications will have to evolve as well, even if you are already utilising agile delivery methods. This part of the journey will focus on adopting continuous delivery and other practices that will enable the fast, safe, secure, and successful deployment of your applications – from the simplest to the most complex, on time and to budget.