Accelerating enterprise transformation with dev ops

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Accelerating enterprise transformation with
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Accelerating enterprise transformation with
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With the new normal shaping up, transformation
whether it is technological, operational, or
cultural has become inevitable, and to an
extent, essential for survival. The ability of
an enterprise to quickly get back on track to
mitigate the impact of the pandemic has proven
substantial in predicting its capability to
develop resilience during these tough times and
to continue delivering services to the end
customers with the same or higher level of
satisfaction. Since the transformation required
to achieve business continuity extends to not
only the operational perspectives but cultural
aspects also, DevOps adoption has become the
go-to solution. DevOps stretches way beyond just
simply bringing the two functions together. It
inculcates the practices, processes, and culture
that have become the need of the hour. Aimee
Bechtle, the Head of Global Market Intelligence,
DevOps, and cloud platform engineering enablement
group at SP, recently spoke on our podcast about
the imperative role of DevOps in driving
enterprise transformation. Having extensive
experience as a transformational change agent and
with a deep perspective on how to make technology
and cultural transformations successful, Aimee
offered critical DevOps-related insights.
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This blog is an excerpt from her discussion with
Kalyana Rao Konda, President at Cigniti
Technologies, on the QATalks podcast. Trends
related to the evolution of DevOps Since the
conception of DevOps, there has been significant
evolution in terms of what it stands for as well
as how enterprises and people understand and
embrace it. The gap between the actual meaning of
DevOps and its understanding led to many failed
adoption across industries. But as this
understanding evolves, the gap is narrowing, and
more and more organizations are now adopting the
DevOps culture successfully. Talking about some
of the trends that Aimee has seen over the years
regarding the evolution of DevOps, she said
Im seeing more trends to applying what I call
the DevOps principles or fundamentals of DevOps,
where theyre driving development teams to have
operational functions and own the product from
cradle to grave, from code commit to operations
or production, and seeing the team typologies
change and moving beyond just implementing
pipelines to changing the responsibility and
accountabilities of the teams, and then moving
architecture to being microservices, and really
decoupling and slaying that model lift to allow
them to go faster.
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While Aimee spoke about the DevOps fundamentals,
Kalyana noted the need of incorporating test
automation into DevOps I would say that test
automation is especially a topic that is
considered nice to do a few years back in the
context of Agile and DevOps. Without actually
having test automation into an overall plan, you
simply cant make those initiatives work because
you are trying to deliver these incremental
changes faster into production as quickly as
possible. And to be able to do that, you need a
mechanism to be able to test not only the changes
that are introduced, but also the entire system.
Thats where the whole test automation kicks in.
What weve seen is in many of the large software
projects that are being undertaken, test
automation is very critical almost to the extent
that without having test automation, you simply
cant deliver this project. Read Full Blog at
https//www.cigniti.com/blog/enterprise-devops-tr
ansformation/
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