TOP DEVOPS

PRIORITIES
Metrics & Reporting 
Value Stream Automation 
Broader Integration

CollabNet recently conducted an Respondent's roles were cross-

online DevOps survey with more functional and included
than 200 participants. The executive leadership, product
questions asked were designed managers/owners, DevOps
to uncover respondent's priorities engineers, release managers,
and perceptions regarding the developers, testers and
barriers faced when operations engineers. Those
optimizing software delivery participating were
value streams. predominantly from Fortune
2000 enterprise organizations.

FLOW METRICS AND

VISIBILITY
We asked respondents which general
area currently posed the largest
challenge to overall value stream
efficiency.

44% cited the need for improved

metrics and visibility, while value
stream automation (27%) and value
stream integration (23%) were top
initiatives as well. 

MORE ABOUT
METRICS
Nearly half the enterprise
organizations are still working to build
basic operational reports and
dashboards. Operational
metrics include basic measures of
activity, such as the number of code
commits, builds, tests failed, defects
found, deployments, and releases. 

Nearly one third of survey participants

are beginning to focus less on basic
operational metrics and are turning
their attention toward lean flow
metrics that precisely describe how
features and backlog items move
through each activity in the value
stream.

AUTOMATE MY
TESTING PROCESS
Respondents indicated their top two
automation priorities.

Replacing manual testing process

with an automated testing strategy is
clearly the top DevOps automation
target (35%), as testing is most likely
to be the biggest delivery bottleneck. 

Second, is automating the software

deployment process (18%). There is
also interest in further integrating
local automation into a larger “value-
stream” orchestration workflow (15%). 
 DON’T FORGET ABOUT
COMPLIANCE
Often some of the primary ideals of
DevOps can seem to frustrate the
need enterprise organizations have to
satisfy compliance and government
requirements.

So we asked survey participants about

their top two compliance concerns.

More than 45% indicated a need for

improved process consistency and
automated documentation to ensure
key process controls have been
satisfied.

There was also strong agreement that

automated audit documentation
could streamline the overall
compliance process (38%). And
improved business value traceability
could simplify release management
processes (31%).
 

SMALLER IS BETTER
One of the core themes in both agile
and DevOps is the objective of
reducing the amount of change in
each incremental release to deploy
smaller bundles of change on a faster
cadence.

When we asked participants to

identify the top obstacles facing
smaller change batches in the
enterprise, 36% of respondents
pointed to the lack of clear visibility
into discrete process bottlenecks (in
the form of objective data).

26% of respondents reported that

legacy planning practices were
responsible for larger batch sizes, and
another 25% cited manual processes,
such as testing and deployment, as
drivers for larger batch sizes in their
organization. 

UNIFIED VALUE
STREAMS REDUCE
RISK
Many enterprises are trying to more
tightly couple upstream planning
activities with downstream DevOps
automation.

We asked survey participants to tell

us why, and nearly 50% of them said
that unified value streams improve
software quality and/or reduce
delivery risk.

Nearly one third of respondents

believe that by connecting the
upstream and downstream data to
measure value stream performance is
the key to continuous improvement
and value stream optimization.

Interested in learning more about

how you can deliver quality
applications faster?

With Continuum, an enterprise-scale

Continuous Delivery platform, track
business value through the entire
delivery lifecycle and reduce the risk
of your deployments. 

For more information, visit:

www.versionone.com/devops

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