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DevOps Challenges and Overcoming Blockers

KMSigma.SWI

Since adopting a DevOps approach at your organization can be a paradigm shift, there are going to be challenges.  Unless you are lucky enough to work for a start-up that gets to build IT processes from the ground up some things must change to shift the organization in such a drastic way.  I've frequently heard IT professionals say "It's hard to turn a battleship around" when describing major changes to the way IT operates.

Various personality types and corporate cultures can affect this, so I'm aware that everyone's journey is different.  Given all the baggage typically attached to IT projects and organizations as a whole, this brings up some very difficult questions as to how IT operates.  Which leads me to today's discussion question:

What are some of the challenges or pain points that you face or have faced in implementing DevOps at your organization and how did you overcome them?

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  • Lack of any manageable process and lack of understanding about how to make processes easier. The red tape and bad process while working for government and large organisations stagnates projects and diminishes efficiency. The endless silos and the WFH culture that we now deal with means we have to fight that bit harder to communicate and put in better ops processes across any org. I've seen cost cutting take away vital DevOps functions in line with government plans and it's hard to keep motivated when they are doing their hardest to ruin what we help build.

  • in reply to acmtix

    Public Sector is one of those areas where innovation goes to Skull.

    OK, I'll admit that was probably too harsh.  But, from my own personal experience, any time I've worked with a government agency, the technology they are using (and relying upon for critical works) feels absolutely ancient.  From my friends in PubSec, they tell me that change is slow. In tech, change is fast.  This feels like a Venn diagram with very little overlap.

    I hope I'm wrong and I just haven't had enough exposure to Government, Education, and other Public Sector verticals in the recent past.  If anything, I think that an agile/DevOps approach could help them significantly considering the sheer amount of data they need to process day in and day out.

    I want someone to chime in here and prove me 100% wrong and that I've just been out of the loop for a hot minute.

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  • in reply to acmtix

    Public Sector is one of those areas where innovation goes to Skull.

    OK, I'll admit that was probably too harsh.  But, from my own personal experience, any time I've worked with a government agency, the technology they are using (and relying upon for critical works) feels absolutely ancient.  From my friends in PubSec, they tell me that change is slow. In tech, change is fast.  This feels like a Venn diagram with very little overlap.

    I hope I'm wrong and I just haven't had enough exposure to Government, Education, and other Public Sector verticals in the recent past.  If anything, I think that an agile/DevOps approach could help them significantly considering the sheer amount of data they need to process day in and day out.

    I want someone to chime in here and prove me 100% wrong and that I've just been out of the loop for a hot minute.

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