DevOps in Practice -- A preliminary Analysis of two Multinational Companies

TL;DR

This paper analyzes DevOps practices in two multinational companies, highlighting benefits, barriers, and team structures to inform practitioners and researchers about effective DevOps transformations.

Contribution

It provides an early exploratory analysis of DevOps implementation in large companies, identifying patterns, benefits, barriers, and team topologies from stakeholder interviews.

Findings

Improved software delivery performance observed.

Identified common barriers to DevOps adoption.

Various team topologies used during transformation.

Abstract

DevOps is a cultural movement that aims the collaboration of all the stakeholders involved in the development, deployment and operation of soft-ware to deliver a quality product or service in the shortest possible time. DevOps is relatively recent, and companies have developed their DevOps prac-tices largely from scratch. Our research aims to conduct an analysis on practic-ing DevOps in +20 software-intensive companies to provide patterns of DevOps practices and identify their benefits and barriers. This paper presents the preliminary analysis of an exploratory case study based on the interviews to relevant stakeholders of two (multinational) companies. The results show the benefits (software delivery performance) and barriers that these companies are dealing with, as well as DevOps team topology they approached during their DevOps transformation. This study aims to help practitioners and researchers to better understand DevOps transformations and the contexts where the practices worked. This, hopefully, will contribute to strengthening the evidence regarding DevOps and supporting practitioners in making better informed decisions about the return of investment when adopting DevOps.