DevOps competences and maturity for software producing organizations

Publication date

2018

Authors

de Feijter, Rico
Overbeek, SietseORCID 0000-0003-3975-200XISNI 0000000389237292
van Vliet, Rob
Jagroep, E.A.ORCID 0000-0001-6925-6803ISNI 0000000523818371
Brinkkemper, S.ISNI 0000000374861981

Editors

Gulden, Jens
Reinhartz-Berger, Iris
Schmidt, Rainer
Guerreiro, Sérgio
Guédria, Wided
Bera, Palash

Advisors

Supervisors

Document Type

Part of book
Open Access logo

License

taverne

Abstract

Software producing organizations aim to release high quality software faster, which triggers the adoption of DevOps. However, not many artifacts are available that aid in adopting DevOps. In an attempt to bridge this gap, a DevOps Competence Model showing an overview of the areas to be considered in adopting DevOps is proposed. Also, a DevOps Maturity Model is proposed that presents a growth path for software producing organizations. Both these models incorporate perspectives that are made up of focus areas which in turn are made up of capabilities. Apart from designing and validating these models by means of expert workshops, a case study has been conducted where assessees answered questions to gain insight into which capabilities were implemented. From the answers, maturity profiles were extracted that supported the assessees in becoming more DevOps mature.

Keywords

Competence model, Design science, DevOps, Maturity model, Software producing organizations, Taverne

Citation

de Feijter, R, Overbeek, S J, van Vliet, R, Jagroep, E A & Brinkkemper, S 2018, DevOps competences and maturity for software producing organizations. in J Gulden, I Reinhartz-Berger, R Schmidt, S Guerreiro, W Guédria & P Bera (eds), Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling : 19th International Conference, BPMDS 2018, 23rd International Conference, EMMSAD 2018, Held at CAiSE 2018, Tallinn, Estonia, June 11-12, 2018, Proceedings. Lectore Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 318, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 244-259. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91704-7_16