Delivery Planning: DevOps

This stage is intended to allow you to consult on DevOps considerations and prepare your organization to succeed.

• Involve the right stakeholders

• Assess your IT environment to identify the systems and processes that require modernization.

• Inventory the current state of existing value streams

• Build skills for transformative initiatives through education, consulting and enablement

• Learn what’s possible to achieve by leveraging modern patterns and practices that drive agility

• Plan for, and design, an approach that meets your unique organizational requirements

• Build consensus and collaboration among teams to execute on a shared vision

• Define what successful outcomes look like and set achievable targets for getting started

In this stage, you’ll identify and adopt the right digital solutions.

• Build a team of innovators to start putting patterns of excellence in place

• Start small and scale teams and environments as success is achieved

• Build automation to start managing resources and application lifecycles

• Implement and adopt the tools, techniques, patterns and practices for your digital initiatives

• Fail fast and fall forward – systems are to blame not people

• Draw in business units to make sure execution is not done in silos

This stage is about ongoing support to ensure future success and DevOps consistency.

• Don’t scale too quickly and avoid regressing

• Iterate and improve

• Adopt a continuous learning mindset

• Measure improvement and move goal posts as needed

• Review how your operating model is working and if tweaks will be necessary

• Look outward for examples to compare against to drive continued improvements