DevOps Maturity Assessment

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DevOps Maturity Assessment:

DevOps isn't a destination… It's a continuous journey towards getting the best possible value from your digital services, laying the foundation for future innovations, and allowing you to bring them to market as quickly as possible.

It’s about embedding principles within your company culture that bring business and IT services together in a single, fully integrated model, in order to deliver the best possible value to both external and internal consumers.

This DevOps Maturity Assessment is designed to establish exactly how well-established DevOps principles and processes are across every level of your organisation.

The initial assessment will involve several one-to-one consultations, combined with 2-3 workshops, depending on the size and complexity of your organisation.

Upon completion of the assessment, we will present a detailed report on your current level of maturity, along with a set of actionable recommendations for immediate improvements, and a long-term roadmap to expedite your DevOps journey. In addition, we will provide the ability to track your progress on your DevOps maturity journey by using the maturity assessment tool to track progress.

Prerequisite

Complete initial online DevOps Maturity Assessment (1-2 hours)
One-to-one consultation with key personnel (1-2 hours each)

Workshop 1

(1 day / team engagement): Organisational Culture & Ways of Working

Org structure, culture, and incentives
IT strategy
WIP (Work in Progress)
Operating practices

Workshop 2

(1 day / team engagement): Architecture & Tooling

Architecture strategy
Standardisation
Tooling Automation

Assessment report

Overall maturity score, based on analysis
Summary of current maturity
Transition roadmap

Maturity Assessment Finding
Exec Summary Example

In this example, the assessment sets out the strongest and weakest areas of maturity as a spider chart, providing the organisation with key area to initially focus on.

Sample Key Findings to Note:

The responses to the questionnaire show that the areas in which you are strongest are collaboration, standardisation, and DevOps practices.

The three areas where you have the most potential to improve are listed below, together with links to resources that you may find useful.

Automation:

Automation is critical to shortening the lead time for software delivery. If quality and speed are to be transformed, automation is essential. Automation enables environments to be provisioned and configured identically every time, while enabling application code to be built, tested, delivered, provisioned, and configured easily. Automation also enables environments to be monitored and incidents (including security threats) to be responded to based upon an established set of rules. Automation drives consistency, enforces quality, removes wastage, and delivers speed; it is the technical backbone to any DevOps implementation.

Architecture & Design:

Navigating the many and various options for optimising architecture for DevOps can be bewildering! It is important to bear in mind that there are no "right" answers. The agility and functionality of Public Cloud environments make them ideal for building DevOps focused architectures and a good starting point for reading matter is the Cloud Provider’s own guides. Beyond that, there are various books, videos and vendor tool documentation that are useful sources of information.

Org Structure, Culture and Incentives:

Org structure, culture and incentives are critical for DevOps success within an organisation, but they are also the hardest and most disruptive elements to successfully change.

Maturity Assessment Finding
Exec Summary Example

On this page the report goes into more detail on Automation and why it is a critical element in the adopt of a DevOps culture with your organisation.

Testing
Automated testing enables tests to be run quickly and frequently. It enables new features to be added with a high degree of confidence that existing functionality will not be broken. As such it is a key enabler for delivering software frequently in smaller increments.
Your score: 0%

Environments
Automation of the provisioning configuration and management of environments (such as development, QA and Production) is a cornerstone of DevOps adoption. There are many tools and methodologies that can be adopted to automate the various layers involved automated monitoring, patching, building and configuration management, as well as simple provisioning. The use of abstraction techniques, such as containerisation is being widely adopted to simplify such automation.
Your score: 7%

Static Analysis
Static code analysis is the analysis of software without executing the compiled program. In most cases the analysis is performed on a version of the source code but, in other cases, object code is used. Static analysis helps to improve code quality by reporting possible code bugs, code smells, memory leaks, software metrics and security vulnerabilities.
Your score: 17%