For the last 4 years I’ve been working with IT organizations – small and large – helping optimize the delivery processes, doing the ‘DevOps Transformation’. Collaborative IT work is challenging. The amount of software tools on the market – whether open-source or commercial – is overwhelming. Some companies start with restructuring their teams, others with modernizing the architecture. Most of them try to do both at the same time. And the outcomes are often mixed.
For companies who’ve been on this journey for a while – the subject of measuring the impact of the DevOps effort becomes very urgent. After all – a lot of effort, emotion and money is invested into improving the way we deliver software. And responsible, motivated professionals start asking questions:
- How effective are we?
- Do we have the right processes in place?
- Are the tools making any difference?
- What are the best practices?
- Is it time to take the next step?
In order to help folks start with this introspection process, we’ve created the DevOps Capability Assessment questionnaire. This is the questionnaire we fill out with potential customers and our DevOps Fundamentals training attendees.
Now – just in time for the new year – we’re making it available as a self-assessment tool. Fill it out, give yourself some time to ruminate on the questions it presents – and get the automatically calculated DevOps capability score for your team in your inbox.
And schedule a free call with me if you want to get a better understanding of how and why we calculate it that way.
Measure the State of your DevOps
NB: the assessment is of course highly subjective, but it does reflect what we’ve seen working during the last decade of improving software delivery with DevOps practices. We’ll be happy to discuss each one of our assumptions.
