{"id":21376,"date":"2018-04-03T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/identifying-and-removing-devops-bottlenecks\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:39:41","slug":"identifying-and-removing-devops-bottlenecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/identifying-and-removing-devops-bottlenecks\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I find and eliminate DevOps bottlenecks?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DevOps, like Agile, has transformed enterprise software delivery. Thanks to sprints, prioritization, CI\/CD and release automation, organizations are building and deploying software products faster than ever. That pesky bottleneck between code commit and deploy has been all but eliminated, which should<\/em> ensure better time to value for customers.<\/p>\n

Yet if your flow time – i.e. end-to-end lead time – is still too long, unpredictable and unmeasurable, it’s likely you’ve only shifted the bottleneck further upstream. Sure, automation has sped up handoffs and communication between developers and operations, but what about everything else that happens in the process?<\/p>\n

What about all the other manual processes that take place before and after a piece of code is written? If there are still manual handoffs at key stages of the process, then your overall workflow is still being impeded by bottlenecks outside<\/em> of the DevOps stage.<\/p>\n

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As Dominica DeGrandis, our Director of Digital Transformation, explains in her latest article for TechBeacon<\/a>, you can only identify and remove these bottlenecks if you can see them. A LOT happens before ‘Dev’ and after ‘Ops’. A lot of creative thinking and activity ensures the right product is built, maintained and delivering value to the end user. And unless you can trace and automate the flow of work from ideation to production, you won’t be able to optimize the process. You need to collect and consolidate all data that pertains to planning, building and delivery of the product.<\/p>\n

So how do you avoid bottlenecks and accelerate your DevOps (and other IT) transformations?  First, you need to ask some important questions:<\/p>\n