Benefits of DevOps
DevOps has quickly garnered the IT industry’s attention and for all the right reasons.
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Insufficient tests
In this process, the tests are conducted individually in unit forms. For higher functionality and proper detection of flaws, these tests are not enough to create a standard quality output.
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Late feedback
Due to fixed isolated work stages, the customer is intimated with the product at a very later stage. This brings in major gaps in the expected and the delivered product, which leads to rework.
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Late fixes
With the absence of any direct relationship or transparency between the testing engineers and developers, fixing a bug and making new changes and implementing them can take weeks or even months.
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Faster deployment
Faster and more frequent delivery of updates and features will not only satisfy the customers but will also help your company take a firm stand in a competitive market.
Different Benefits of DevOps for Different Stakeholders
However, in the greater picture, different stakeholders have different business goals. And different business goals require them to look at the benefits of DevOps differently. The standpoint of CIO is different from that of CEO, whose perspective is different from that of an IT Manager or any other stakeholder – this dissimilarity in looking at the benefits of DevOps was researched by David Linwood, a renowned IT Director who referred to the different perspectives as ‘lenses’.
For IT managers, it is important that the procedural and technological metrics are improved. As a result, output performance metrics govern the advantages of DevOps from an IT manager’s point of view. The benefits are:
- Lower volume of defects
- Lower cost of a release
- Improved software performance
- Lower cost of investment
- Frequent release of new features, fixes and updates
- Improved MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery)
The CTO / CIO of the organization focuses more on the strategic goals involving people-centric metrics for the successful implementation of DevOps. From the lens of a CIO, DevOps offers the following benefits:
- Individual improvement and cross-skilling
- Greater flexibility and adaptability
- Freedom to brainstorm and experiment
- Increased engagement by team members
- Cooperative and happier teams
- Appreciation from senior managerial teams
- Better process management
- Reliable and faster fixes, along with enhanced operational support.