Assessing DevOps: Assess DevOps Quantitatively for your IT, Business and Industry

“Interesting. Very critical for any transformation. Gets to ask the right questions by locking in all Dev and Ops guys in a room and thrashing out what to do. Definite read.” – John WillisThe book describes how to assess your IT for DevOps by leveraging quantitative methods. As opposed to DevOps assessments that are typically subjective and follow heuristic approaches, a quantitative assessment approach makes the it highly deterministic and capable of generating an implementation-ready target state. The book covers:1. Understanding the “Big Picture” on why and what to assess2. Pre-assessment for DevOps to first capture a high level readiness by portfolios3. Detailed assessment using quantitative methods along with numerous examples, templates and checklists, that generates (a) target architectures in terms of people, process and technology, (b) detailed DevOps implementation stories, and (c) key metrics – Covers 350+ questions and stories, and 50+ key IT metrics4. Assess culture as part of detailed assessment and understand impact of culture on estimates to implement and adopt5. Recommended steps to get started on a consulting assignment and prepare the assessment reportThe book further provides DevOps related insights and ready reference towards:a. A business view of DevOps and how business metrics maps to IT metrics; covers 20+ business metricsb. 8 emerging areas in IT including Chaos Engineering, AIOps, Security, DataOps, Branching and Merging Strategy, Containers, Cloud, Legacyc. 7 select Industries – Retail, Media, BFSI, Manufacturing, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Telecom, Energy & Utilitiesd. 3 extensive case studies covering the breadth and depth of DevOps assessmentse. Glossary of terms used and a categorized technology/ tool list; 200+ tools coveredThe authors have a vast experience in the field of DevOps, having conducted large scale DevOps assessments and transformations across organizations, including truly global firms across industry verticals. With each of them having more than twenty years of experience in IT, the approach has been uniquely formulated (and presented in this book) by them to map any organization’s IT strategy to on-ground DevOps implementation as may be required to be planned by such organization.