This section highlights six DevOps principles we deem essential when adopting or migrating to a DevOps way of working.

Customer-Centric Action

These days, it is imperative to possess short feedback loops with real clients and end-users and incorporate all activity in developing IT products & services. Moreover, to meet the clients' specific requirements, the companies should have the guts to act as lean startups that innovate continuously.

Develop With The End In Mind

We must let go of the off waterfall and procedure-oriented models where every unit or an individual works for a specific role. It is thus necessary to act as the product firms that explicitly focus on developing working products that are being sold to actual customers.

End-To-End Responsibility

We develop IT solutions and then hand them over to Operations to deploy and maintain these solutions. In a DevOps environment, teams are vertically organized such that they are fully accountable from concept to grave. IT products or services created and delivered by these teams remain under the responsibility of these stable groups. These teams also provide performance support until they become end-of-life, significantly enhancing the engineered products' commitment and quality.

Cross-Functional & Autonomous Teams

In product companies with verticals, the ultimately responsible teams must become entirely independent throughout the entire lifecycle. It requires balancing specialized skills and fully highlights the requirement for team members with T- shaped around profiles and not the old school IT specialists.

Continuous Improvement

Organizations should be flexible enough to adapt to the changing circumstances continuously. In the DevOps culture, an extreme focus is on continuous improvement to minimize waste and optimize speed.

Automate Everything You Can

Think of automation of not only the software development process (continuous delivery, including continuous integration and continuous deployment) but also of the whole infrastructure landscape by building next-gen container-based cloud platforms that allow infrastructure to be versioned and treated as code as well. Automation is synonymous with the drive to renew how the team delivers its services.