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DZone > DevOps Zone > What Are Your DevOps Goals? Shipping Faster or...?

What Are Your DevOps Goals? Shipping Faster or...?

How does an organization go about adopting DevOps, and is their goal to ship faster or to practice continuous improvement?

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Jun. 12, 15 · DevOps Zone · Interview
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A theme we encounter very often with companies attempting DevOps transformations is that they rarely know where to start. Our advice: start by figuring out your goals – DevOps is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

One of the most common goals we come across is that companies want to “ship faster without breaking everything” – accelerate the delivery of new features to their users while maintaining a sufficiently high level of quality. A clear, measurable goal, which is good…but where do you go from there?

Here is our take:

  1. Start by just enacting simple, tooling-related changes that move you towards your goal. We’ve all heard about the principles, philosophies, culture etc. behind “successful DevOps,” but you generally need a basic technical foundation before you’re in a position to start to promote those.
  2. Make your focus on practicing improvement, not “practicing “DevOps.”

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