Digital First has been a strategy adopted by over 89 percent of organizations and that vision is expected to drive the digital transformation market to grow at a rate of 23% to $3.3 trillion by 2025. The global spending on digital transformation (DT) is estimated to exceed $1.78 trillion in 2022, accounting for 40% of all technology spending.

The data presented above is amazing! However, it's also essential to note that 70% of DT projects fail, and by 2023, 50% of companies will lose their market share if they fail to invest/succeed in DT.

DT projects are failing because,

• Company Culture- With distributed structures and competing teams, there is a cultural shift that needs a buy-in from everyone in the organization to nurture DT.

• Delays in Feature Development - Complex architectures & legacy systems present difficulties in DT evolution stalling feature development.

• Impossible Agile Delivery Models - Organizations are under pressure, driven by many external factors like digital disruption causing agile delivery models impossible to execute.

• Not Enough Collaboration - Goals of the project are ambiguous resulting in poor collaboration.

• Poor Security Models - Fast evolution of new-age technologies makes it tough to keep pace with. Improper security leads to unsuccessful DT bringing uncertainty & instability.

• Scalability Issues - Sprawling is a significant source of complexity making it challenging to adapt quickly.

DevOps Helps!

The majority of the concerns listed above can be resolved with a solid DevOps strategy. The benefits of a DevOps approach include continuous improvement, agility, and a shorter time to value.

Here are the top 5 advantages of DevOps that help DT projects be successful,

Advantage 1 - Collaboration

DevOps fosters a collaborative atmosphere in which various teams collaborate to achieve common organizational goals. This means that your organization's teams will not be segregated and will not strive for department-specific objectives.

DevOps promotes collaboration by bridging the gap between Dev/Ops/QA teams and encouraging them to work together toward a common goal: increasing value for your company and customers.

Advantage 2 - Speed

The faster you release, the more quickly your business value is recognized. The length of time it takes to test a product is determined by the availability of a testing environment.

Through automated testing and integration, DevOps accelerates the delivery of software features and adjustments. DevOps forces your developers to monitor the product for any software updates or bugs throughout its full life cycle. This cuts down on the time it takes to track down, locate, and repair defects, allowing you to get to market faster.

Advantage 3 - Innovation

DevOps is a software development process that produces things quickly. As a result, such quick software delivery frees up part of the developers' time, allowing them to experiment with new features or improve the effectiveness of existing ones. Developers can test the feasibility of such concepts by doing a proof of concept and progressing based on the findings with minimal disruption to the current project.

By allowing teams to learn more and better understand client expectations, DevOps fosters innovation.

Advantage 4 – Customer Satisfaction

Feedback loops are an essential part of any DevOps implementation. Feedback loops enable end users—typically customers—to watch the progress of the application build at various stages and suggest any needed improvements in most scenarios of corporate software development.

DevOps speeds up software delivery, which has a direct and positive impact on customer satisfaction. DevOps also allows for lower-cost end products because it streamlines several components of the workflow.

Advantage 5 - Agility

When it comes to balancing capacity as a result of demand changes, DevOps methods allow a company to remain adaptable. It enables them to better understand how customers use the goods and their overall preferences so that they can continue to provide features that are valuable to them.

It also allows for the management of features and requirements for several apps running on different platforms. DevOps adoption also improves the way change management is handled, ensuring that the current process is not slowed or disrupted. It also aids IT leaders in resolving the problems that siloed teams might cause.

Advantage 6 - Security

DevSecOps adds security as a separate component to DevOps' essential development and operations components.

DevSecOps adheres to the principle of continuous iterative improvements, which simplifies the entire security management process. It also speeds up the recovery process in the event of a security breach. Other benefits of using DevSecOps include reduced vulnerabilities and insecure defaults, improved code coverage, and the invigoration of secure design patterns in the process.

DevOps – The Benefits

Benefit 1 - Technical