Results of the Ranger4 2013 DevOps Readiness Survey

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Results

Ranger4 2013 DevOps Readiness Survey


This survey ran for 4 weeks at the end of 2013 and intended to take a snapshot of organiza;on’s DevOps awareness and

capabili;es at that ;me. It has 5 parts:

1.  Respondent backgrounds 2.  Cultural indicators 3.  Cultural aIributes 4.  Team features 5.  Process maturity 6.  Environment

The survey results are summarized in this presenta;on.


1. Respondent backgrounds


31% of respondents from

organization size 100 – 1000 employees


Company Size

Less than 10 employees

10 -‐ 100 employees

100 -‐ 1000 employees

1000 -‐ 10000 employees

10000 -‐ 100000 employees

Over 100000 employees


37% of respondents from technology industry


Industry

Banking and Finance

Government

Healthcare

Insurance

Other

Retail

Services

Technology

Telecomms


19% of respondents describe

job role as ‘DevOps’


Job Title

Applica;ons Manager

Architect

Capacity Management

CIO

Developer

Development Manager

DevOps

IT Manager

Opera;ons Manager

Other


Job Title: Other •  Senior Test Analyst / Test Analyst •  Web Operations Engineer •  Architect, SysAdmin,DBA •  Continuous Delivery Manager •  Software Configuration Manager •  Marketing •  Change Consultant


Developer/Operations Ratio

Average Ra;o Dev:Ops = 54:46

Lowest Ops:Dev ra;o -‐ 2% Ops Highest Ops:Dev ra;o -‐ 80% Ops


2. Cultural indicators


80% of respondents feel

positive about

change


How Do You Feel About Change?

It's not my favourite thing

Meh -‐ I don't mind it

I like it a liIle bit

I love it

I thrive on it -‐ it's what makes me feel alive


33% of respondents

don’t like

failure


How Do You Feel About Failure?

The very thought of it makes me feel nauseous

I don't like it, but it happens

It's just part and parcel of being human

I know that I'm achieving something if I'm failing and I know I'll get it right eventually I like to learn from my mistakes


61% of respondents

pretty excited about

going to work


How Do You Feel About Going to Work?

A mild sense of foreboding…

I dread it so much my palms get clammy

It's just work, isn't it?

I'm mostly preIy excited about it

I just can't wait to get there, every single day


46% of respondents

feel they have a good

work / life balance


How Do You Feel About Leaving Work?

I look forward to ge_ng home, for sure

It's preIy much all I think about all day

Work's good, home's good -‐ I have a good balance

Sure, I like going home, but work's excellent fun

I work late and I love it. I go home to refuel.


3. Cultural aIributes


What do you spend most of your working day doing?


Others?

•  Stuff •  Fixing, complaining •  Working •  Supporting •  Coaching


A lot of cross-skilling, knowledge sharing and pairing goes on between teams

Not at all true

Mostly false

Neither true nor false

Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


We work in a fluid but focused manner

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


We have multi-disciplinary teams

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


We organize ourselves around projects rather than skill-sets

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


There's a sense of constantly dancing on the edge of failure

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


We're just keeping ahead of the business' demand

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


We never write a line of code we don't need

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


We continually strive for improvement

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


We measure everything - we're metrics obsessed!

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


We try out new technologies and tools all the time

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


Teams are highly autonomous and self-organizing

Not at all true

Mostly false


Slightly true

Mostly true

Very true


4. Team

features


We're rewarded well for good work

Not at all Not really A bit Definitely


Nobody cares much about job titles



We're encouraged to have ideas



We're enabled to act on ideas the teams like



We don't worry about demarcation all that much



Management removes obstacles for us



We are shielded from politics



5. Process maturity


Requirements Elicitation and Management


Agile Development


Build


Deployment


Unit Testing


User Acceptance Testing


Quality Assurance


Application Performance Monitoring


Project Management


Cloud Migration


6. Technical environment


Application Infrastructure To

mcat

Cassandra

Glassfish

IBM DB2

Web

Sphe

re

JeIy

MS IIS

MS .Net

Mon

goDB

MySQL

NetAp

p Nod

e.js

Oracle DB

Web

Logic

PHP

PostgreSQL

RedH

at Jb

oss

Resin

Sybase

Web

Metho

ds

Loads

A bit

None


Mobile Applications

iOS

Android

Windows

None


Infrastructure Location

On premise

In the cloud

All over the place


DevOps Toolchain Jenkins

Maven

Hudson

ClearCase

Ra;o

nal Team

Cruise Con

trol

Subversio

n

Git

TFS

AnthillPro

Ude

ploy

Arifa

ctory

AppD

ynam

ics

Got it, don't use it

Nope

Yup


Release Frequency

Couple of ;mes a year

Every few months

Monthly A few ;mes a month

A few ;mes a week

Daily A few ;mes a day

Many ;mes an hour


Time Troubleshooting

That's not my bag

Hardly ever

It's part of what I do

More than I'd like

Way too much


Conclusion

In 2013 respondents scored an average 68.43 on the

DevOps Maturity Index (DMI)

What will happen in 2014?


Next Steps

Do you want to know your DMI score?

Get lift off with a Ranger4 DevOps Maturity Assessment

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