11 common DevOps Bottlenecks

1. Inconsistent Environments

Create standard infrastructure blueprints and implement continuous delivery to ensure all environments are identical.

2. Manual Intervention

Automate the build and deployment processes and implement a test automation methodology like test driven development (TDD)

3. SDLC Maturity

Invest in training and hold blameless post mortems to continously solicit feedback and improve.

4. Legacy Change Management Processes

Companies with legacy processes need to look at how they can modernize processes to be more agile instead of being the reason why their company can’t move fast enough.

5. Lack of Operational Maturity

Assess your operational processes, tools, and organization and modernize to increase agility and transparency.

6. Outdated testing practices

Quality is everyone’s responsibility, not just the QA team.

7. Automating waste

Automate processes after the bottlenecks are removed.

8. Competing or Misaligned Incentives and Lack of Shared Ownership

Work with HR to help change the reward and incentives to foster the desired behaviors.

9. Dependence on Heroic Efforts

If your organization relies on heroes, find out what the root causes are that creates these dependencies and fix them fast.

10. Governance as an Afterthought

Assign an owner and start building a plan for scaling DevOps across the organization.

11. Limited to No Executive Sponsorship

If running a grassroots effort, gather before and after metrics and be prepared to sell and evangelize DevOps upward.

Source- 11 Common DevOps Bottlenecks