How DevOps Practices Support Digital Transformation
Sarah AL-Zahran
Abstract
Digital transformation is all about technology enabling and opening up new opportunities for businesses, societies, and governments to meet changing business and market requirements that would add values to the digital economy. Thus, to compete in the digital economy, companies must be able to manage software development in a rapidly and reliably fashion. To achieve this, they should apply powerful software development practices. Indeed, several software development practices are becoming popular, and one of these powerful practices used is DevOps. While digital transformation is well-established in research areas, the implications of software development practices on digital transformation are under-investigated. Taking this topic as a reference, this paper introduces how DevOps practices and culture facilities the digital transformation within organizations through a discussion of the DevOps core of principles, practices, and values that support digital transformation organizations in many aspects. Therefore, this paper is proposing DevOps practices and culture from two case studies. Then, it will illustrate how these practices support digital transformation organizations. The proposed DevOps practices and culture contribute significantly to the field of DevOps, as it would be useful to digital transformation organizations who have already adopted or are about to adopt DevOps.