The majority of tech leaders understand that developing mature agile and scaled devops capabilities requires time and investment. As a result, at some point, business leaders may inquire about the return on investment. Many companies are able to substantiate their investments by delivering enhanced user experiences, boosting customer satisfaction, and rolling out capabilities more rapidly.
In today’s business, IT departments must demonstrate cost savings, especially during economic uncertainty. Agile and DevOps practices can lead to efficiencies and direct cost savings by:
1. Enhance speed to market by delivering minimally viable solutions
2. React faster to priority changes
3. Accelerate and improve decision-making processes
4. Implement test-driven development and continuous testing
5. Automate test data management and service virtualization
6. Analyze and optimize cloud consumption costs.
7. Use automation to free DevOps teams from toil.
8. Leverage feedback to make course correction