Building a DevOps organization

Building a DevOps Organization
Zinnov New York Round Table
July 2015

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Agenda
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
What is DevOps?1
How to build a DevOps Organization2
Globalization of DevOps3
Outsourcing DevOps4
About Zinnov5

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DevOps provides competitive advantage to businesses through faster time to market
by breaking down silos between business, development, testing and operations
Business
Development
Test/ Quality
Assurance
Operations
Idea
Customer
Friction
Pre 2000’s
Waterfall Development
Cycle time: Months or Years
Idea
Customer
Agile
2000’s
Iterative Agile Development
Cycle time: Weeks or Months
Idea
Customer
2010’s
Lean with DevOps
Cycle time: Hours or Days
DevOps
Business
Development
Test/ Quality
Assurance
Operations
Business
Development
Test/ Quality
Assurance
Operations

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DevOps combines the Development and Operations teams leveraging automation of
processes to enable rapid release cycles
DevOps (development and operations) is a software development method
that stresses communication, collaboration and integration
between software developers and IT operations professionals
DevOps Responsibilities
 Collaboration between Dev and Ops
 Automation and Infrastructure as Code
 Continuous Integration/Testing
 Continuous Delivery/Deployment
 Continuous Monitoring
DevOps Purpose
 To bridge the divide between Development and IT
Operations team through:
Communication Integration Collaboration

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The DevOps cycle encompasses all aspects of software production and delivery
The DevOps Cycle: from Business Analysis to Monitoring
BA/PM
User
Stories
Bugs Version
Control
Test
Scripts
QA
Dev
Users
Ops
DevOps
Cycle Build
Deploy
(QA)
Test
Deploy
(Prod)

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Agenda
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
What is DevOps?1
Outsourcing DevOps4
About Zinnov5

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Building a DevOps Organization involves completely rethinking the way software
development and IT operations work together
1. Myth: DevOps is useful only for companies with cloud products
• Reality: DevOps can be adopted for any software product - on-premise or cloud
2. Myth: DevOps is all about implementing a set of tools and technologies
• Reality: DevOps is about continuously delivering software to the customer and
everything that affects the development process
3. Myth: DevOps is all about creating a new team placed between the traditional
Dev and Ops teams
• Reality: DevOps is about breaking down silos between Dev and Ops – not creation of
new silos. A DevOps transition team is required for change management, but its true
measure of success is how soon this team can be dissolved
4. Myth: DevOps requires a sudden overhaul of the entire Ops tools and
technology stack
• Reality: DevOps can be implemented in a phased manner, starting with a few
components without requiring a sudden complete overhaul of existing infrastructure
5. Myth: DevOps requires co-location of the Dev and Ops teams
• Reality: DevOps, while benefited with a co-located Dev and Ops team in the initial
phases, does not mandate co-location. In fact, mature DevOps organizations can benefit
from the round-the-clock support provided by distributed teams across global locations
DevOps: Myths and Reality
Implementing DevOps requires
changes across the organization
but it can be managed in a stable
gradual manner suited to
traditional organizations
People Process
Technology

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A shift in organization culture and skill-sets is required successfully adopt DevOps
DevOps: People and Process Enablers
People
Process
Full Stack
Engineers
Small 2-Pizza
Teams
Integrated
Teams & Joint
Meetings
Autonomous
and
Empowered
Collective
Responsibility
• Culture is the most important aspect of DevOps
• Organizations need to create a culture that is all about
communication and collaboration among the developers, testers,
and the IT Ops team
• A DevOps Evangelizer within the organization is needed for driving
the cultural transformation initiative across the company
• DevOps is nothing without the discipline and the culture, as a set
of tools won't help people embrace change
• Every organization, and departments within organizations, will
have a unique way of writing code, testing it, and releasing it
• DevOps stands on the pillar of well-defined processes
• The process clearly defines everything that takes place from the
time a developer checks his code into version control until it
surfaces on the production system ready to be consumed by the
end users
Automated
Build, Test and
Release
Data-driven
Product
Development
Common
Metrics for Dev,
Test and Ops
Experiment and
Fail Fast
Quality and
Security-First

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DevOps technology choices are innumerous – Taking the right decisions with people
and processes ensures the right technology decisions
DevOps: Technology Selection
Technology
• Every organization that is moving toward DevOps should
document the inventory of disparate tools used by the various
stakeholders. These include:
• Version control systems like Git and Subversion
• Build tools like Ant and Maven
• Testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, and Selenium
• Provisioning tools like Vagrant
• Configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet
• Monitoring tools like Nagios and Ganglia
• Trouble-ticketing tools like Jira
• These tools are designed to work together, as they target
different groups with different outcomes. Based on the defined
process of DevOps as identified by management, these tools
need to be connected
• This is where orchestration engines such as Jenkins play
a critical role
• By creating a well-defined orchestration aligned with the
process, these disparate tools will work together to enable
continuous delivery of software
• Organizations shouldn't be tempted to buy tools that help only a
few teams. A complete process and flow needs to be
formulated, and then tools should be brought in wherever
necessary

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Agenda
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
What is DevOps?1
Outsourcing DevOps4
About Zinnov5

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Global locations such as India are being increasingly leveraged by mature DevOps
organizations
Talent Pool Size
& Growth
Talent Pool Cost
Talent Pool
Quality
India USA
Globalization
Advantage
• Significant DevOps talent pool of
~30,000 professionals
• Rapidly growing talent pool
• Largest DevOps talent pool in the world
of ~250,000 professionals
• Slow growth of talent pool
• Low Talent Pool Cost of ~$20-25k p.a. for
median experience of 5 years
• High cost of DevOps talent of ~$120k
p.a. for median experience of 5 years
• Good quality talent pool with
experience in MNCs and technology
start-ups such as Flipkart, Ola etc.
• Best quality DevOps talent available
• Significant & rapidly growing talent pool of good quality DevOps engineers
• Low cost of good quality DevOps talent
• Continuous 24 hour support
Operations • Time difference with USA ensures
continuous 24 hr support
• Single country operations requires shift-
based operations for 24 hr support

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Agenda
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
What is DevOps?1
Outsourcing DevOps4
About Zinnov5

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Multiple service providers have been managing DevOps installation and delivery for
clients, particularly in the ISV vertical
• Many service providers have been providing DevOps
services to ISV clients
• Intuit (with Persistent): Automated Testing
• Autodesk (with Cognizant): Automated Testing
• Baazarvoice (with Valtech): Monitoring

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Agenda
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
What is DevOps?1
Outsourcing DevOps4
About Zinnov5

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Zinnov is a 13 year of management consulting firm ranked among the Top 20
Outsourcing Advisors by IAOP for 7 years in a row
Engineering &
IT Excellence
Product / Market
Definition
Globalization
Accelerator
Platform
Industry Benchmarks &
Frameworks
Networking opportunity
with peers
Thought leadership and
on demand insights
Branding opportunities
Business
Strategy &
Expansion
Business Strategy
Account Management
M&A/Operations
Optimization
Customer Connect
Emerging
Markets
Direct Sales
Maximization
Channel Design
and Monitoring
Solution Ideation
Opportunity Assessment
& Go to Market
Global Technology Center
Setup
Charter Definition/
Planning
Zinnov Offerings

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Zinnov’s customers spans the full breath of the industry, with a focus on technology
Software
Products
Engineering Associations &
Trade Bodies
Servers &
Storage
FinanceTelecom &
Networking
Digital
Companies

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Zinnov is conducting an industry-wide benchmarking using the DevOps Cube Model
Best Practices
Face1
Face 5Face 6
Face 3
Metrics
Talent pool
competency
Engagement
Model
Process
Tools
and
Technology
Face2Face4
3. Tools and
Technology
1..Engagement
Model
2. Metrics
4. Talent pool
competency
5. Process
6.BestPractices
The DevOps Cube

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The DevOps Cube encompasses a comprehensive range of metrics to thoroughly
map DevOps adoption across companies
Engagement Model Metrics
Tools and
Technology
Talent Pool
Competency
Process Best Practices
1 62 3 4 5
Defines the DevOps
delivery mechanism
Performance and cost
metrics for measuring
DevOps success
Tools and their seamless
integration for DevOps
Organization structure
and culture for DevOps
Process definition for
DevOps adoption
Innovations across
dimensions of the cube
• Org structure
• Co-located teams
• Distributed teams
• Service Provider
involvement
• Performance
Metrics
• Release Cycle
• Quality
• Downtime
• Cost Metrics
• Tools
Investments
• Talent Costs
• Tool-set
Integration
• Version
Control
• Build
• Testing
• Provisioning
• Configuration
• Monitoring
• Ticketing
• Orchestration
• Open Source Tools
Management
• Key DevOps Roles
• DevOps Talent
Profile
• Team Size
• % of Full Stack
Engineers
• Measures for
• Collaboration
• Collective
Responsibility
• Autonomy
• Training etc.
• Time period since
DevOps adoption
• % of DevOps
driven products
• Degree of
automation
• Build
• Test
• Deploy
• Common metrics
adopted for Dev,
Test and Ops
• Cultural integration
• Metrics alignment
• Tools selection
• Talent retention
• Process adherence
etc.

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Appendix
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Defining DevOps1
Industry Survey on DevOps2
Impact of DevOps: A functional perspective3
DevOps Case Study: LinkedIn4
DevOps: The India Advantage5

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DevOps combines the Development and Operations teams through
automation of processes to enable rapid release cycles
DevOps (development and operations) is a software development method
that stresses communication, collaboration and integration
between software developers and IT operations professionals
DevOps Responsibilities
 Collaboration
 Automation and Infrastructure as Code
 Continuous Integration/Testing
 Continuous Delivery/Deployment
 Continuous Monitoring
DevOps Purpose
 To bridge the divide between Development and
IT Operations team through:
Communication Integration Collaboration

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TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Defining DevOps1
Appendix

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DevOps Adoption Rates
39%
27%
18%
16%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
Already adopted
Plan to adopt
No plan to adopt
Don’t know what DevOps is
Enterprise IT organizations are further along on DevOps than most might think
Source: “Survey of 1300 IT Decision Makers on DevOps” by Vanson Bourne on behalf of CA Technologies – 2014

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What Drives the Need for DevOps?
Multiple forces are converging to drive DevOps
47%
41%
41%
39%
35%
31%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%
Need for greater collaboration
Simultaneous deployment across multiple platforms
Pressure to release more apps faster
Need to improve customer experience
Rise of mobile computing
Rise of cloud applications

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Perceived DevOps Benefits
Expected benefits include better software, increased collaboration and cost savings
53%
48%
35%
46%
42%
35%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Increased frequency of software deployment
Increased collaboration
New software and services
A reduction in spending
Improved application quality
Increased number of customers using software

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DevOps-driven Improvement Results
Those that have embraced DevOps have, on average, witnessed major gains
23%
22%
22%
21%
21%
20%
18% 19% 20% 21% 22% 23% 24%
Increased collaboration
Improved quality of applicants
Increased number of customers
New softwarte services
Fewer employees working on projects
Reduced time to market

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Expected DevOps Investments
DevOps processes require new tools, training and skill sets
73%
71%
53%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Ivest in new tools
Invest in more training
Hiring people with new skills

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Most Important DevOps Components
Getting the right tools in place to drive processes is critical
52%
47%
45%
42%
32%
25%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
IT automation
Agile developemnt
Collaborative teaming of personnel
Service virtualization
Accelerated application testing
Aligned processes

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Top 5 DevOps Obstacles
DevOps represents a major exercise in organizational change management
35%
28%
25%
24%
24%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
Organizational complexity
Roles and responsibilities not aligned
Security and compliance concerns
Lack of understanding of development cycle
No budget or clear budget responsibility

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TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Defining DevOps1
Appendix

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As DevOps increasingly is becoming a necessity, the impact is felt by all
organizational functions across the technology sector
Business Engineering
Human Resources
“How does DevOps impact
business strategy?”
product development?”
“How does DevOps impact organization
structure and talent pipelines?”
1 2
4
IT/Operations
“How does DevOps impact IT
infrastructure and operations?”
3

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DevOps can provide a competitive advantage when leveraged successfully
and is on its way to becoming a hygiene factor within the next 5 years
Business
business strategy?”
1
Impact of DevOps on Business Strategy
 DevOps positively impacts the scalability, cost and quality of the software
product. However, these factors do not lead to a sustained competitive advantage
 DevOps speeds up the time to market tremendously, which allows companies to
try out more innovations in the market – this continuous innovation allows
technology companies to gain a competitive advantage
 Scale
 Cost
 Quality
 Speed
Unlimited Users, Data and Transactions
Lean Operations
Zero Downtime
Sustained Innovation
Sustainable
Competitive Advantage
Hygiene Factors

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DevOps redistributes the responsibility of the product development and
release pipeline between Dev and Ops teams
Engineering
2
 DevOps positively impacts the product development by removing bottlenecks
through automation, providing full-stack testing and increasing collaboration with
the operations team
Development
Architecture
Code Development
Testing/QA
IT Architecture
Environment
Development
Deployment
Dev Ops  Architects need to think holistically and work with Dev and
Ops teams as they design and enhance the application
 Environments need to be architected in a manner to allow
for the evolution of the applications, both as they are
developed and projected to evolve
 It requires Ops to allow Developers to take more
responsibility of the operational characteristics of the
applications they are building
 Deploying at each instance the full stack that includes the
environment, middleware and the application being
deployed is essential for improving quality
 All teams should start using the same Change
Management and Work Item Management tools

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Development and IT Architecture stop existing as silos and work towards
building a common ‘Deployment Architecture’
Engineering
2
Development
Architecture
IT Architecture
Deployment
Architecture
Impact of DevOps on Architecture
 Architecting for Deployment
 Architecting for Resilience
 Consolidated Development Architecture
Simplify and streamline the design. This includes standardization of infrastructure
components, but also removing architectural elements which were originally
intended to ensure other quality attributes, now overruled by the higher priority of
deployment
The system as a whole needs to be as available as possible
With DevOps, from an architectural point of view, the development and target
environments form one system with three main categories of users: developers,
operators and end-users

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Development teams focus on creating easily configurable applications for
automation and removing hardcoded application resourcing
Engineering
2
Impact of DevOps on Development
 Coding for Configurability
 No Hardcoding of Application Resources
It should be possible to configure all aspects of the application, while making it
ready for deployment. Applications should not depend on specific machine
configurations but should be able to detect machine capabilities and change
accordingly
An application should not depend on hard-coded machine paths for additional
information or on specific IP addresses for connectivity. It should be possible to
specific such information while packaging the application or while deploying the
application to the target platform
 DevOps requires the Development team to collaborate closely with the Ops team
 The application code needs to be written with requirements for DevOps in mind

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QA teams are highly automated and aligned to Continuous Integration
Engineering
2
Impact of DevOps on Testing/QA
 QA teams need to align their testing to DevOps through a focus on automation
and standardization
 QA needs requires skill-sets of automated testing environments such as Selenium
and Watir
Receive build deployed on environment
designated by QA
Perform functional and regression testing
Sign-off on build after keeping build under
observation
Traditional QA
All pre-testing tasks, clean-ups, post-testing tasks, etc. are automated
and aligned with the Continuous Integration cycle
All test cases are automated and achieve near 100% code coverage
Environments are standardized and deployment on QA boxes is
automated
Focus of DevOps QA

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DevOps needs to be integrated into existing IT Infrastructure with new tools
and skillsets required for DevOps-driven operations
IT/Operations
“How does DevOps impact IT
infrastructure and operations?”
3  DevOps requires a new set of tools which seamlessly integrates the development
through to deployment
 The IT operations for DevOps needs to have knowledge of operating DevOps
tools across 3 functional areas: Continuous Integration and Continuous
Deployment and Monitoring/Logging
Impact of DevOps on IT Infrastructure & Operations
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Monitoring & Logging
DevOps Area Popular Tools
Fabric

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DevOps creates changes in the organization structure and a requirement for
sourcing DevOps talent through fresh hiring and re-training
Human Resources
4
A simplified Org Structure
with DevOps
Impact of DevOps on HR
 Organization Structure designed for collaboration between
Development & Operations
 Talent pipeline designed to attract fresh DevOps talent as
well as re-training of existing operations teams

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DevOps talent currently resides predominantly in Internet & Cloud cos. –
both established cos. such as Google and Facebook as well as start-ups
Human Resources
4
Evolution of DevOps & Potential Talent Pipeline
 Internet cos. such as Google and Facebook are the birthplace of DevOps – Pioneers of rapid
release cycles
 Cloud cos. with SaaS/PaaS offerings, especially start-ups were the early followers – Driven by time
to market needs

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TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Defining DevOps1
Appendix

Manual
Builds, Configuration
and Deployment
Monolithic Weekly
Releases
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• Write Codes
• Build Features &Apps
• Build & Deploy Apps
• Run the website
ENGINEERING DEV OPERATIONS
2006
RELEASES
• Engineers had no access to the production systems as focus
was more on building features and products
• Escalation of issues identified by operations team involved
dance of transferring log files between the ops and
engineering teams to rectify the issue
• Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) of issues was below
expectations
• Essentially, the engineers had no idea as to what the
production environment looked like
• The process laid out was to mainly focussed on building
features and not on efficiency
PROBLEM: THIS APPROACH DOES NOT SCALE UP
LinkedIn Case Study (1/4)

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CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION
Engineering Teams Grew
Systems, Processes, People in
centralized orgs had to scale
More code, more features, higher
throughput was required resulting in
release capacity being a bottleneck
Production Service Ownership Shifted
from ‘Just’ SiteOps to DevOps
Increased DevOps gap resulting in
adoption of tools to bridge it i.e. Zenoss,
Splunk, Healthcheck
Assignment of SiteOps
Engineering to Dev Tracks
Implicitly directionally correct making
deployment faster and more streamlined

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Engg Dev Ops
Migrating towards vision of DevOps
• Self provisioning capabilities for Engineering
• Manage configurations and deploy code continuously
• For services that adhere to specific area
Ops becomes an enabler and support organization
Focused on managing critical hardware and horizontal
software infrastructure services
Vision built on Three Cornerstones:
• Embedded Site Reliability Engineering
• inGraphs
• glu
2014

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• Rebranded SiteOps to SRE
• Fully decentralized approach to
scale with Dev org
• Physically co-located with
engineering partners
• Assist with capacity and deployment
planning
• Ensure operational aspects are
considered
• Ongoing KT between Ops and Dev
• Developed by SRE Team
• Encourage Devs to instrument their
own code
• Development of “autometrics”
• System to automatically visualize
any metrics as soon as the code
exposing them was deployed
• Self service dashboards and alerting
(Next Steps)
• Open sourced agent based
provisioning framework that models
current vs desired states
• Used for all application deployments
and configuration management at
LinkedIn
• Generates/ executes a deployment
sequence according to delta of
states and glu scripts
• Has become the central tool for all
deployment / release activities
Embedded SRE inGraphs glu

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TABLE
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CONTENTS
Defining DevOps1
Appendix

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India is being increasingly leveraged by MNCs for DevOps driven by a
confluence of advantages – talent pool size, quality and cost
Talent Pool
Size & Growth
Talent Pool
Cost
Talent Pool
Quality
India USA
The India
Advantage
• Significant DevOps talent pool of
~30,000 professionals
• Rapidly growing talent pool
• Largest DevOps talent pool in the
world of ~250,000 professionals
• Slow growth of talent pool
• Low Talent Pool Cost of ~$20-25k
• High cost of DevOps talent of ~$120k
• Good quality talent pool with
experience in MNCs and technology
start-ups such as Flipkart, Ola etc.
• Best quality DevOps talent available
• Significant & Rapidly growing talent pool – of Good Quality DevOps Engineers
• Low cost of good quality DevOps talent

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Zinnov has created a DevOps Adoption Maturity Framework to assess the success of
companies in adopting DevOps
Zinnov DevOps Adoption Maturity Framework
Tactical Adoption
Strategic Transition
Mature Adopter
DevOps UnicornLow High
DevOps Adoption Maturity
People Competency
Cultural Integration
Process Maturity
Technology Maturity
Business Benefits
People Competency
Process Maturity
Technology Maturity
Business Benefits
People Competency
Process Maturity
Technology Maturity
Business Benefits
People Competency
Process Maturity
Technology Maturity
Business Benefits

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