A Large Agile Organization on Its Journey Towards DevOps

Kuusinen, Kati; Balakumar, V.; Jepsen, Sune Chung; Larsen, S.; Lemqvist, Thomas August; Muric, Admir; Nielsen, Anna Olgaard; Vestergaard, Oliver

doi:10.1109/seaa.2018.00019

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“…Results show that automation and CI/CD practices are not by themselves sufficient to achieve DevOps benefits [22]. We thus confirm suggestions made elsewhere that DevOps is not only a technical practice but also a culture [25], and that organisations should not expect the implementation of DevOps continuous practices to automatically translate into benefits without a commensurate culture change [30]. A DevOps culture that removes silos between development and operations is necessary for delivery of DevOps benefits [10,22].…”

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“…Based on data from a survey of 79 practitioners, they classified these into three high level categories reflecting people, business and change related challenges. Kuusinen et al [30] carried out surveys and interviews in a Danish software service house on the challenges to reaching DevOps. Their data suggests most participants were not certain that continuous practices would mitigate problems in software development.…”

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A Survey of DevOps in the South African Software Context

Rowse¹,

Cohen²

2021

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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This study investigated DevOps practices and experiences in the South African software development context, along with associated perceptions of benefits and challenges. Survey data collected from a sample of 80 software development professionals showed that more frequent builds, earlier detection of bugs and reduced project lead times were the top three benefits, while getting DevOps capable members into a team, finding experienced professionals to support DevOps practice and changing deep-seated company culture to support DevOps were the top three challenges. DevOps practices are still emerging. Although 85% of respondents report continuous integration as a frequent practice, only 54% report using continuous deployment frequently. The biggest reported impacts of DevOps on software development culture were in making development team members aware of operational faults, responsible for quality assurance, and responsible for deployments. Realisation of benefits from DevOps depends largely on a culture change. Results are useful for guiding organisations considering DevOps adoption.

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A Survey of DevOps in the South African Software Context

Rowse¹,

Cohen²

2021

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Bureaucratic deployment process Ibrahim et al, 53 Shahin et al, 67 Kuusinen et al, 68 Lwakatare et al 69…”

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“…67 Shahin et al 67 conducted an empirical study to investigate the factors that could impact the continuous delivery aspects of software development. 68 Among their survey respondents, 31.6% said that the continuous deployment process in their organization was highly bureaucratic. Organization becomes a challenge for DevOps practices because of its rules and bureaucracy.…”

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Multicriteria decision‐making taxonomy for DevOps challenging factors using analytical hierarchy process

Khan

Shameem²

2020

J Software Evolu Process

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Development and operations (DevOps) practices significantly accelerate and automate the continuous delivery and deployment of software systems. However, adopting DevOps concepts is not a straightforward job. Most organizations are not able to keep pace with the rhythm of continuous delivery and deployment, which are key DevOps attributes. Despite the significance of DevOps programs, it is still unknown why software development firms are demotivated or unable to adopt them. We tried to fill this gap by investigating, prioritizing, and developing the taxonomy of the key factors that could impact the adaptation and implementation of DevOps practices. We extracted a total of 16 factors from the available literature and empirically assessed them using the survey approach. The identified factors are further classified into three core categories of the software process improvement (SPI) manifesto. The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) approach was used to calculate the prioritization weight for each factor and present it as a taxonomy. The developed taxonomy provides a roadmap to tackle the key challenges to implementing DevOps and offers suggestions for streamlining DevOps practices.

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Readiness model for DevOps implementation in software organizations

Rafi

Akbar

et al. 2020

J Software Evolu Process

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DevOps is a new software engineering paradigm adopted by various software organizations to develop the quality software within time and budget. The implementation of DevOps practices is critical, and there are no guidelines to assess and improve the DevOps activities in software organizations. Hence, there is a need to develop a readiness model for DevOps (RMDevOps) with an aim to assist the practitioners for implementation of DevOps practices in software firms. To achieve the study objective, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) study to identify the critical challenges and associated best practices of DevOps. A total of 18 challenges and 73 best practices were identified from the 69 primary studies. The identified challenges and best practices were further evaluated by conducting a survey with industry practitioners. The RMDevOps was developed based on other well‐established models in software engineering domain, for example, software process improvement readiness model (SPIRM) and software outsourcing vendor readiness model (SOVRM). Finally, case studies were conducted with three different organizations with an aim to validate the developed model. The results show that the RMDevOps is effective to assess and improve the DevOps practices in software organizations.

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A Large Agile Organization on Its Journey Towards DevOps

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

A Survey of DevOps in the South African Software Context

A Survey of DevOps in the South African Software Context

Multicriteria decision‐making taxonomy for DevOps challenging factors using analytical hierarchy process

Readiness model for DevOps implementation in software organizations

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