A large agile organization on its journey towards DevOps

Kati Kuusinen; Veena Balakumar; Sune Chung Jepsen; Simon Hjortshøj Larsen; Thomas August Lemqvist; Admir Muric; Anna Ølgaard Nielsen; Oliver Vestergaard

doi:10.1109/SEAA.2018.00019

A large agile organization on its journey towards DevOps

Kati Kuusinen, Veena Balakumar, Sune Chung Jepsen, Simon Hjortshøj Larsen, Thomas August Lemqvist, Admir Muric, Anna Ølgaard Nielsen, Oliver Vestergaard

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Abstract

Software companies are increasingly adopting DevOps and continuous software engineering practices to support short feedback loops, gain better control and visibility over deployments, and decrease the need for manual work with the help of automated processes. While adopting DevOps practices can lead to various benefits, companies also face many kinds of challenges in the transition. This short paper presents the results of a case study conducted in a large Danish software service house about their experiences of transitioning towards DevOps. We got 30 completed survey responses and interviewed four persons in software engineering related roles. We present the current state of the company with challenges and suggestions to improvement. To reach DevOps, the company will need a major cultural change. However, the respondents were positive that the adoption of continuous software engineering practices would mitigate some of their prevailing challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications : SEAA 2018
Editors	Tomas Bures, Lefteris Angelis
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	18. Oct 2018
Pages	60-63
Article number	8498186
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-7384-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-7382-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAA.2018.00019
Publication status	Published - 18. Oct 2018
Event	44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2018 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 29. Aug 2018 → 31. Aug 2018

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Conference	44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2018
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	29/08/2018 → 31/08/2018

Keywords

Continuous development
DevOps
Large organisation

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Kuusinen, K., Balakumar, V., Jepsen, S. C., Larsen, S. H., Lemqvist, T. A., Muric, A., Nielsen, A. Ø., & Vestergaard, O. (2018). A large agile organization on its journey towards DevOps. In T. Bures, & L. Angelis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications: SEAA 2018 (pp. 60-63). [8498186] IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAA.2018.00019

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A large agile organization on its journey towards DevOps. / Kuusinen, Kati; Balakumar, Veena; Jepsen, Sune Chung et al.

Proceedings of the 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications: SEAA 2018. ed. / Tomas Bures; Lefteris Angelis. IEEE, 2018. p. 60-63 8498186.

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