Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.
Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)
Nowadays, a modern software company sits in one of two camps: one in which their developers are utilized efficiently and are well integrated into the team (and are happy as a result); or one where there are typically dozens of WIP branches, time-to-delivery is on the order of hours or days, and developers live in a silo where they’re constantly putting out fires and they’ve accepted their delivery flow just is what it is.
The root difference is the way in which the development process is viewed. DevOps is a culture, a way of doing things that prioritizes iterative improvement of the process itself. It sits (as the name suggests) at the intersection of development and operations, allowing both business elements to communicate and understand each others requirements and priorities.
Practices that work in alignment with a DevOps-focused development style:
- Keeping batches of work visible and small;
- Limiting WIP;
- Continually identifying, evaluating and improving constraints;
- Eliminating friction in daily work;
Key metrics we aim to optimize:
- delivery lead time;
- deployment frequency;
- time to restore service;
- change fail rate
Nautilus offers help to businesses that are trying to make the leap and instill a DevOps culture in their team. We come equipped with extensive experience in modern development flows, methodologies and technologies that will transform the way your developers work and lay the groundwork for streamlined delivery of software well into the future.
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