Gartner predicted that through 2022 75% of DevOps initiatives will fail to meet expectations due to issues around organizational learning and change and in 2021 Tech Radar Survey indicated 80% of the DevOps initiatives failed to achieve desired goals - mind you project this is the percent of projects that failed to meet the desired goals and expectations. In other words, people-related factors tend to be the bigger challenge while implementing DevOps as compared to implementation technology/tools challenges.
DevOps delivers Maximum value when aligned to customer value
It has been observed that organizations often launch DevOps efforts with insufficient consideration of business outcomes and without clarity of goals. I&O leaders need to ensure that staff and customers connect with the term "DevOps," and the value it will bring, prior to introducing the initiative.
Organizations should use marketing to identify, anticipate and deliver the value of DevOps in a manner that makes business sense. "Leaders must seek to refine their understanding of customer value on an ongoing business to evolve capabilities and further enable organizational change,"
DevOps fails when right team members & organizational change are not managed
In another Gartner 2017 Enterprise DevOps Survey, 88% of respondents said team culture was among the top three people-related attributes with the greatest impact on their organization's ability to scale DevOps. In 2020 TechRadar did a similar survey and over 90% CIOs responded that their priority was to build DevOps culture However, organizations overlook the importance of getting the right mix of staff on board with the upcoming DevOps change and instead focus efforts on DevOps tools.
Tools are not the solution to a cultural problem
It sounds repetitive but I still need to reiterate that "Tools are not the solution to a cultural problem," Organization have to Identify candidates with the right attitude for adopting DevOps practices. Individuals who demonstrate the core values of teamwork, accountability and lifelong learning will be strong DevOps players.
Lack of collaboration affects success of DevOps
Successful DevOps efforts require collaboration with all stakeholders. More often than not, DevOps efforts are instead limited to I&O. Organizations cannot improve their time to value through uncoordinated groups or those focusing on I&O exclusively.
Break down barriers and forge a team-like atmosphere. Varying teams must work together, rather than in uncoordinated silos, to optimize work. "This might start with seeking out an executive who can carry the teams and champion the effort,"
Trying to do too much too quickly
It is important to realize that a big-bang approach — in other words, launching DevOps in a single step — comes with a huge risk of failure. DevOps involves too many variables for this method to be successful in a large IT organization.
Is is recommended to use an incremental, iterative approach to implement DevOps to enable the organization to focus on continual improvements and ensure that all groups are collaborating. Is is recommended starting with a politically friendly group to socialize the value of DevOps and reinforce the credibility of the initiative.
Unrealistic expectations of DevOps
Similar to struggling with grounding DevOps initiatives in customer value, a disconnect exists in many organizations between expectations for DevOps and what it can actually deliver.
"Expectation management and marketing are continuous and not a one-time affair"
Manage expectations by agreeing on objectives and metrics. Use marketing to identify, anticipate and satisfy customer value in an ongoing manner. Expectation management and marketing are continuous efforts, not a one-time affair.The bottom line is unless entire organization understand develops and appreciates the benefit of DevOps and take efforts to collaborate and work to bring a cultural change across Development, Testing and Operations teams, DevOps will not be successful.
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