5 steps for making 2021 a great year for DevOps. ‘We need to rethink connection and integrations, both on a technical level and a human one’
The idea of continuously delivered, quality software vetted through a collaborative and highly automated series of steps from inception to deployment is an enticing one, hence the appeal of DevOps. However, while just about everyone says they are pursuing DevOps, the reality on the ground has been mixed at best. The urgency of DevOps has only increased over the past year, as the Covid crisis scattered corporate workforces and physically separated IT teams. « We need to rethink connection and integrations, both on a technical level and a human one, » says Ed Macosky, head of product at Boomi. »While it may seem that many DevOps teams don’t have any trouble working remotely, two out of five said that remote work is affecting their ability to innovate and be creative, with the majority noting this is due to a lack of in-person connection with colleagues. DevOps teams bring innovations to life at a company. » However, it’s been difficult to organize and maintain DevOps teams, especially at this time of uncertainty. « With employee churn, DevOps teams are often left to deal with a script-based dumpster fire, » warns Ashish Kakran, principal with Thomvest Ventures. For instance, while DevOps is supposed to put development and operations on the same page, the two groups often are still taking their own separate paths. « We’re seeing DevOps implemented separately and differently in different functional areas of the same organization, » says Brian Dawson, DevOps evangelist with CloudBees. « Operations may implement their own DevOps tools and processes, while application development implements their own DevOps tools and processes.
