About DevOps

Two pillars are embedded in the name: Development + IT Operations. DevOps represents best practices that will help you in better communication, cooperation and integration of experts from IT Operation and Software Development.

Adopt a best practice that will help you improve communication and integration of development and operation teams and thus make IT work more efficient, which will positively affect the operation of the entire company.

The basis of any effectively functioning organization is above all how well the operational activities work here.

And their effectiveness is increasingly dependent on perfectly functioning IT. That is that efficiency depends on developers, or Software Development. It is in these situations that you will appreciate DevOps.

DevOps is a methodology developed by the DevOps Institute (DOI) and is intended for individuals and organizations. Thanks to these principles, you will learn the best practice intended for managing IT Operations + Software Development.

Thanks to the DevOps methodology, you will reduce the time needed to introduce products and services to the market (time to market)

As in most companies today, the success of business activities in yours probably depends on perfectly functioning IT. DevOps allows you to manage it in a way that increases its reliability and efficiency and improves the quality of the services it delivers.

It will teach you how to speed up and optimize software development and its deployment and effectively solve customer satisfaction requirements. It will offer you procedures for solving typical problem situations that occur in everyday IT operations.

DevOps is a concept using the principles of Agile, Scrum and Lean, which summarizes proven practices and recommendations. It's not just a methodology; it also requires a change in the culture, thinking and way of working of the entire IT department. A change that pays off for your company.

For Devops, a culture that supports team collaboration is key. Everyone works towards a common goal, ideas and problems are shared, feedback is obtained, and improvement is supported.

Measurement, metrics and monitoring - work with the idea "what you don't measure, you can't manage" and "what you don't manage, you can't improve". Lean principles are systematically applied, the aim of which is to eliminate waste. The emphasis is on automation, which is already supported by all processes and tools.

The following main principles apply during all activities:

• Make maximum use of automation

• Emphasize continuous improvement

• Focus all activities on the customer

• Always keep in mind the goal to be achieved

• Have responsibility for the complete process from start to finish

• Work in autonomous teams composed of experts with different expertise

• IT is constantly overloaded. Requirements are piling up here, the effort is to solve them all. But it is not always clear what and why is the priority. It is also difficult to find out what the status of the projects is.

• The capacities are not enough, people are withdrawn from projects for other work. There is no clear overview of who works on what when, the same person is assigned jobs and incidents.

• Deadlines and SLAs are not met, promises made to customers are not kept. Deployment to production is delayed, which all negatively affects business.

• There is little time for testing, there is pressure to quickly put it into production. Products are not continuously tested, so they often have to be redesigned.

• If you also struggle with these problems, then DevOps is exactly what your company needs. It will provide you with guidance and practical advice on how to proceed in these situations and will teach you how to prevent them in the future.