DevOps

DevOps is a practice followed by IT companies to deliver excellent end products. The practice has evolved as a method for amalgamating software development and operations teams by eliminating the boundaries, to facilitate a speedier and efficient mechanism for better applications and services.

In this fast-paced industry, where competition is always to stay ahead of the curve, the DevOps model eliminates the obstacles faced by the teams working in silos, in earlier times. The term takes a different meaning as per its application, for instance, often quality assurance teams and security teams may collaborate with the development and operations team. When security is the focus of the DevOps team, the phenomenon is termed as DevSecOps.

BizDevOps
BizDevOps refers to an approach in software development that emphasizes teamwork to increase revenue. Often termed as DevOps 2.0, its objective is to generate value from the software development idea, followed by a discussion with the client to convey the importance of the conceived idea.

BizDevOps is, thus, about the collaboration between development, operations, and business (management) teams. It helps in aligning the steps involved in the development, better governance, very detailed monitoring of the processes, and improving efficiency.

Why BizDevOps?

Let us understand BizDevOps - Business, Development, Operations

• Business: Businesses' overall objectives are achieved as the collaboration of teams helps in creating value, formulating a business plan, and implementing feedback.
• Development Teams: This team works on delivering quality software by focusing on coding, testing, design, managing backlogs, and so on.
• Operations: Operations team can focus on the deployment of the application followed by monitoring and optimizing.

How to implement BizDevOps ?

As the focus revolves around benefitting the business as a whole, any organization must take into consideration a few key factors mentioned as follows:

• Add up all the components (resources) that are relevant and significant for forming a BizDevOps team. Building a team requires grouping various business processes and tools based on the objectives of product development. The team should ideally consist of people from operations, marketing, and business intelligence to discuss and derive the most out of this platform.
• The process of implementation begins with defining the business problems to analyze the given plan of software development concerning technical and budgetary constraints. Code development is followed by test execution. Based on the success of test results, the product is readied for deployment post, which is monitored for its operational efficiency in the production environment.

DevOps Vs BizDevOps

The terms are used interchangeably, the latter being the extension of the former. The term DevOps was coined for the first time in 2009 by Patrick Debois and is rather a perspective on how things should be handled from a broader perspective.

One may wonder where DevOps derive its significance? Well, the concept evolved over time, until it was recognized and shaped into a concrete and meaningful principle.

The two primary areas that can be attributed to DevOps’s origin are -

• Enterprise Systems Management (ESM): The initial stage of DevOps comprised integration of ESM concepts, as the stakeholders were mostly administrators, such as system monitoring, configuration management, automated provisioning, and similar ones.
• Agile Development: DevOps has somewhat shaped into its existing state because of agile. In agile software development, the emphasis is on continuous collaboration between product management teams, customers, developers, and all other stakeholders involved in the process to ensure there is no gap in end-user expectations and the product being delivered to them. Everything has to remain updated, be it a feature update, a security patch update, or any similar kind of activity, to ensure seamless functioning.
  
  BizDevops, as we have discussed earlier is an extended version of DevOps and termed DevOps 2.0, is simply an extension of DevOps concepts into business as a whole, to ensure product development contributes to the growth of the revenue structure of an organization. Therefore, BizDevOps is a subset of DevOps with some additional components attached to it.

Benefits of DevOps:

DevOps aims to enhance productivity and profitability prospects for any organization. Therefore, here we summarize the advantages of DevOps in a few brief pointers as follows:

• Speed - Keeping pace with the rapid advancements will keep the organizations one step ahead. It is important to understand the market structure, what user needs are and thus innovate and fetch better revenue, adding value to the business.
• Rapid Delivery - competition is soaring high and therefore faster you market, the better are your prospects at the market level. Adoption of practices such as continuous integration and delivery are the key to an automated outcome.
• Scalability - managing the software development infrastructure is another key to attain benefits. Organizations must focus on integration efficient ‘infrastructure as code’ solutions, which is a cloud-based approach for handling continuous integration processes, driven by APIs.
• Better collaboration - DevOps, being a cross-functional team, will automatically inculcate values such as ownership and accountability for each member. Therefore, it is an efficient approach towards easier collaboration between teams, sharing responsibilities, thereby saving much time and effort.
• Security - Security is very crucial to ensure no unauthorized access is encountered that may jeopardize the application's performance. It is crucial to implement security compliance policies, along with various configuration management techniques, to keep malware attacks at bay.

Conclusion

Most organizations are moving towards DevOps, as per the need of the hour. It is important to understand the significance of keeping pace with the dynamic market and delivering value to the end-users. An organizations' work culture is largely relevant in maintaining the market value and also ensuring that the business is also benefiting from the ideas and plan of action.