CIO OPINION practices and processes that stand in the way of further progress . The organizations who do succeed are able to expand DevOps practices beyond the initial earlyadopting teams , continuing to evolve and improve across the organization .
So how can you think about maturing your DevOps practises ? Our 2020 State of DevOps Report identified a few common characteristics of teams with mature DevOps practises . Here is what we ’ ve learned .
1 . Adopt a self-service platform approach
A platform approach can properly integrate DevOps teams to better adapt to changes in how applications are deployed and managed . This is especially critical in the era of COVID-19 as DevOps teams are even more highly distributed than they were before and are often spread across different time zones .
A platform approach , in which self-service capabilities are on offer for DevOps teams for application development , production and management , is thus widely seen as a way to improve DevOps efficiency . A total of 63 % of the respondents said their organization had adopted at least one selfservice platform for its team members . More evolved organizations are almost twice as likely as midlevel organizations to have a high usage of internal platforms with self-service capabilities .
A self-service platform is imperative when you are looking to ensure security and compliance , as it will provide a foundation for automation , standardization and team autonomy .
2 . A product mindset is key to scaling DevOps
The most successful platform teams treat their platform like a product , meaning they build a roadmap , receive feedback from their consumers , establish metrics and continually engage with their consumers to make their platform – their product – better .
Managing products instead of projects is the right mindset to have to scale platforms and your DevOps practise . As managing software delivery at scale becomes the dominant way forward for enterprises , IT teams need to treat digital initiatives as products that fully translate to business value , not as cost centers where success is measured as being on time , on budget and reducing costs .
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