Why your team needs DevOpsLeave dysfunctional practices behind.

You want to move faster. You want to scale up. You want to leave dysfunctional modes of working behind. DevOps is your answer.

You need change

Customers demand more. You have to get ahead of competitors. You need to deliver changes faster.

Operations teams using agile software development practices deliver new features faster. Teams using one-off scripts, spreadsheets and manual methods struggle to keep up.

Move faster

More computers and services enter our lives every day. This extra compute power brings extra responsibility: more computers, devices and services to manage, maintain, secure and monitor.

Automation and other DevOps methods help you scale faster and more efficiently — and even create self-service for devs and others in your org.

Scaling up

You know the story: the dev team finishes a new app or website and heads off to celebrate, leaving ops to figure out how to deploy it.

Blaming devs isn't fair, though. They did what the business asked them to do. What's needed is alignment between Dev, Ops and the business. That's what DevOps is for.

The blame game

Lack of alignment creates a negative feedback cycle — and lack of empathy — between Dev and Ops. Then it's all about SLAs and contract negotiations.

Once both teams understand better what the business needs, and what the other team needs, you can move from contract negotiation to collaboration. And everyone's happier.

Negative feedback cycle

The push to move and scale 10 times faster rarely means you get 10 times more ops team members.

Backlogs develop, and developers get frustrated. They turn to cloud services, stop making their needs known to operations, and shadow IT emerges, beyond the control of ops. It's expensive, and risky for the business.

Shadow IT

Align development and operations with each other, and you can fix — or even prevent — all these issues. No more silos, no nasty surprises.

DevOps is the answer

For practical tips on getting DevOps buy-in from your operations team, the development team and executives, check out the DevOps Guide for IT Managers.

More in the DevOps for IT managers series:DevOps Principles for IT Managers Get Executive Backing for DevOps Bringing Dev and Ops Together