Exploring the Criticality and Impact of DevOps Practices
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2018
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ARVEDAHL, MARTIN
ÅKERSTEN, CHRISTOPHER
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The purpose of the study has been to explore DevOps practices with regards to
their criticality on DevOps adoption goals, making grounds for decision making in
the industry and for further research. Through performing a qualitative multiple
case study on practitioners of DevOps, with existing literature as input, a set of
adoption goals, practices and effects was elicited. The multiple case study consisted
of interviewing and surveying twelve practitioners of DevOps in various software
organizations, with different levels of experience. We have found that there seems
to be a set of practices shared among practitioners, such as Automatic Testing &
System Monitoring, critical for a set of shared adoption goals like Throughput. Some
of these practices are transforming the way of working in the industry with regards
to organizing operations. We further found that the implementation of the practices
seems to have a significant effect on considered adoption goals, motivating further
research. Lastly, we found that practitioners in the industry are not operationalizing
DevOps, often not measuring the effects of adoption. However, some suggested
metrics for verifying the effect of implementing DevOps practices have been found.
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DevOps , Goals , Practices , Effects