{"id":1763,"date":"2022-01-24T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/vertex-old\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2023-02-28T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:08:36","slug":"building-an-organizational-culture-that-supports-devops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/vertex-old\/blog\/building-an-organizational-culture-that-supports-devops\/","title":{"rendered":"Building an Organizational Culture That Supports DevOps\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

DevOps is at its core is a set of best practices for developers and IT operations that aims to shorten release cycles and increase software quality. As such, it is closely related to other development methodologies such as Agile Software Development, CI\/CD (Continuous Integration\/Continuous Deployment), and Kaizen.<\/p>\n

As DevOps has matured, several toolsets have emerged to support the application development lifecycle, providing version control, reporting, requirements management, project management, automated builds, testing, and release management capabilities. The best tools in the world, however, will not ensure success if the development and IT organizations are not committed to instilling the culture necessary to support it.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read another article about how a strong DevOps culture at Vertex achieved the development paragon of zero defects code.<\/p>\n

Our top five practices with the strongest correlation to organizational culture are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Organizational investment<\/li>\n
  2. Team leaders’ experience and effectiveness<\/li>\n
  3. Continuous delivery<\/li>\n
  4. Organizational performance<\/li>\n
  5. Lean management practices<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Organizational Investment<\/h3>\n

    DevOps success begins at the top. IT and development managers need to break down the silos between development, testing, deployment, and operations to create a cross-functional, unified team capable of working across the entire development lifecycle. While technology stacks and tooling aid in the quick and reliable development of applications, it is really the shared responsibility and ownership that increases the team\u2019s velocity.<\/p>\n

    Experience and Effectiveness<\/h3>\n

    Leaders of DevOps teams need to be experienced across the spectrum of IT disciplines in order to break down potential barriers and ensure that their teams are performing at the highest potential.<\/p>\n

    As a DevOps engineer at IBM said in\u00a0an article published by InfoWorld<\/a>, \u201cWe needed to answer some basic questions and determine the problems we were trying to solve\u2026If you don\u2019t know how the work is actually done, you don\u2019t know which problems are worth solving.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Continuous Delivery<\/h3>\n

    Continuous delivery\u00a0is the DevOps approach that aims to\u00a0produce software in short cycles. By developing in short cycles, teams can reliably release their software at any time. With CD, development teams can build, test, and release software faster and more frequently. As a result, they can reduce the cost, time, and risk of delivering each change. A repeatable deployment process is important for continuous delivery. Rather than throwing code \u2018over the wall\u2019 to QA and Operations, integrated teams can achieve heretofore unexpected release cycles.<\/p>\n

    Organizational Performance<\/h3>\n

    The transformation to a DevOps organization takes a large investment in time, money, and resources. The ability to clearly and accurately measure the performance of your DevOps team is critical to improving efficiency and tracking success.<\/p>\n

    The following metrics are a great start for measuring DevOps performance and progress:<\/p>\n