March 29, 2021 Short and Long-Term Benefits of DevOps

As more and more companies adopt DevOps we look at the development process that enables organizations to create quality products faster.

What hides under the term DevOps? 

DevOps is a combination of tools, practices and a modern approach to the development process that enables organizations to create high quality products faster than by following traditional software development processes. The main goal of companies that decide to adopt DevOps is to offer better services and products to their customers – so in short, to become more competitive. But how to do it?

Creators of DevOps culture thought that the distance and barriers between traditionally siloed teams (those who develop the product and those who introduce it to the market), development and other processes are the cause of failure. In DevOps, those teams work side by side during the entire product life cycle – from development to release and even later.

DevOps model practices

DevOps is a very complex term. There are a lot of processes you can automate to make your company more competitive. You should learn more about the DevOps tools you can use. DevOps best practices strive to make your company more responsive to the market’s needs, expectations and complaints. 

Agile Planning

This is all about making the project easier by dividing it into phases. Agile teams focus on delivering small increments rather than waiting till the release day when the entire project is done. This allows team members to make plans, analyse goals and evaluate results before they start on other tasks. Thanks to this, early feedback appears immediately and enables the company’s employees to make improvements faster.

Continuous monitoring of the development process

To ensure high quality products and services, and the efficiency of various company processes, you need to continuously monitor these processes and support communication in the company as well as the flow of the documents. To smoothly create and share documents and information you need to use the right tools (one of the must-haves is jupyter – read about how to make it the best tool by fixing jupyter’s notebook memory error). 

Short-term advantages of adopting the DevOps model

Using new work methods makes some immediate differences. As soon as your teams start communicating in better ways, you oversee their work carefully and you improve many internal processes, your company will benefit from:

• reduced time-to-market
• higher quality released products due to faster and more clear feedback
• The possibility to fix bugs and solve problems in early stages of development
• improved UX – as more issues are dealt with before the product is used by customers

Those are changes you’ll observe in a matter of days and weeks, but what about long term changes that will affect your business?

Long-term benefits of DevOps

Do you think that being an innovative company is about the tech stack? Partially, yes, but to become really modern, you have to do better than that. You need to learn how to work smarter, not only using the best tools, but also by adapting the best communication and management methods. The DevOps model is the way to do it, as it is all about the company’s culture and processes. 

Raising the efficiency of multiple internal and external processes will enable you and your employees to react to customers’ needs faster. Many processes will be automated and standardized. Adopting the DevOps model helps companies work more efficiently. As a result, they have more time and resources to communicate with clients, analyse their needs and grow. 

Your business will also gain flexibility. Traditional companies often have difficulties when the market changes drastically. Following DevOps principles, you can build an ecosystem that can adapt if necessary. Those companies which are capable of changing will manage to remain in business even if conditions change unexpectedly. Adopting the DevOps model will help your company mature. 

Your employees will become happier too. DevOps principles and practices improve communication between your team members and partners. Working in a nice environment makes people productive; such people do their job well, and this makes the company successful. Customers enjoy using your products, workers are satisfied – business grows.

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