Lead in DevOps Implementations. Ask This:

Lead in DevOps Implementations. Ask This:

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发布日期: 2022年1月16日
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  1. How does your organization know whether they have achieved DevOps?
  2. What are the characteristics your organization must have in order to support the use of DevOps to drive business value?
  3. How does DevOps influence the performance of development and operations of your organizations Information Systems?
  4. What controls or clearance levels does your organization have for the personnel that have DevOps access to cloud environments or physical access to data centers?
  5. What DevOps service do you use to help create user stories, track project work using dashboards, and plan sprints and releases?
  6. What group or team in your organization is responsible for DevOps support, supporting Agile IT processes whereby IT operations and developers work together?
  7. In what stage(s) of your Software Development lifecycle (SDLC) do you have DevOps security and/or compliance checks?
  8. How many builds will your organization have waiting and delayed by an AppSec vendor that can not support your DevOps process?
  9. How has your development organizations adoption of formal DevOps principles and practices impacted the software development teams workload in tangible or measurable ways?
  10. How do you get the ROI you are looking for to achieve the automation necessary to deliver high quality software at the speed of agile and DevOps initiatives?
  11. What product types do you have in your organizations software or DevOps observability stack, and for what use cases?
  12. How are you integrating secure development best practices and methodologies into development and deployment processes to deliver response and recover to security incidents using a standard workflow that limits damage and reduces recovery time and cost.
  13. How does implementing DevOps impact your organizations ability to deliver new quality services on time and on budget change from today?
  14. How does centralized IT need to change the way it operates in order to meet the demands of DevOps minded end users and teams?
  15. How does your organization achieve scale of DevOps adoption across the enterprise with projects and teams with diverse technologies?
  16. Which agile, lean and DevOps practices and principles have improved productivity in your organization environment that has adopted a structured service management approach?
  17. For your organizations DevOps methodology and microservices architecture, what tools and experience do your developer team need to be familiar with?
  18. Is it clear how hard it will be to extend the practices across teams as well as in aligning DevOps with existing software development practices that are used at larger scale?
  19. What agile management method do you use when your development DevOps team is working in continuous deployment mode?
  20. What information do you need to share between ServiceNow and other tools in order to resolve failures/delays and/or add value to how DevOps teams are doing their work?
  21. What is your contractual framework for vendors to natively support your Agile way of working and to foster DevOps teams with full accountability?
  22. What impact do regulatory and compliance requirements have on DevOps in your organization?
  23. Related to the use case you want to enable, where specifically does your current process fail or cause delays to your DevOps teams work?
  24. What does a manager have to do daily, weekly and monthly to ensure that the principles of DevOps land and stick at your organization?
  25. How does your organization manage the skills shortage that is holding DevOps back, how have you responded by providing more resources for developers to learn from?
  26. How does your organization implement a DevOps framework that allows you to be successful regardless of the automation tools that are employed?
  27. How do you integrate security into the software delivery lifecycle?
  28. How are you collecting data and metrics across the entire life cycle?
  29. What are the architectural frameworks and tools that your cloud application architects and DevOps use when developing applications for IaaS and PaaS platforms?
  30. How do your enterprise architects enable Agile software delivery using DevOps without over engineering or setting up too rigid parameters in the process?
  31. How are you integrating security more to the left?
  32. Within the product teams, do you have full automation of the end to end software development cycle?
  33. How do you apply data science and machine learning across the software engineering lifecycle, cloud software engineering lifecycle, and DevOps Software Engineering pipeline?
  34. To what extent does the solution support data versioning, branching, sharing, and other collaboration capabilities that support common DevOps patterns?
  35. If source code scanning tools are used for security testing as the code is being build, are they included in the DevOps toolchain?
  36. Looking ahead 12 months, what do you think the status of DevOps implementation will be in your organization one year from today?
  37. In which continuous delivery and release automation tools should your DevOps team member possess know how?
  38. Where has your organization adopted DevOps and continuous integration practices into your application development lifecycle?
  39. What skill sets for security does your organization need to work with the DevOps team?
  40. What tolerance do you have for false alarms from an application security capability that is integrated into your DevOps practices?
  41. Do you have DevOps principles for continuous integration and continuous delivery in place for all of your systems of innovation?
  42. Is your software or DevOps team using a Log Management tool provided by corporate IT, or did you procure or build/assemble your own?
  43. How does your organization use DevOps to get the most out of a monolithic/micro service application hybrid?
  44. What do you do in your DevOps teams to embrace diversity and help transform the culture of development and operations into a true DevOps team?
  45. How do you ensure that an Agile DevOps practice follows information security best practices?
  46. How do you adapt application security for Agile development and DevOps initiatives?
  47. How do you learn what DevOps teams need so you can figure out how to use ServiceNow to support them?
  48. To what extent do Agile and DevOps change the skills your organization needs from QA and test professionals?
  49. How do your DevOps teams integrate application optimization into the CIi/CD cycle to ensure the performance needed for exceptional user experience, while keeping cloud costs under control?
  50. If your organization does not have the necessary DevOps talent on the books, where are you going to find them?
  51. How do performance management and DevOps work together to provide mutual support and benefits to your organization, application and environment?
  52. To what extent does the size of your organization affect the successful implementation of a DevOps culture?
  53. How do you support DevOps and PlatformOps initiatives in your organization to enable better IT service delivery?
  54. How do you systematically merge Software Engineering Analytics across the software development lifecycle and DevOps Software Engineering lifecycle which requires real time action?
  55. Where is your organization in its evolution from build automation to full on continuous delivery?
  56. In the automation and orchestration of DevOps value streams, how do your data engineers remember how each process is choreographed?
  57. How do new, application level use cases arise within already well defined enterprise IT and DevOps processes?
  58. Will your organization place more emphasis and budget on DevOps as a result of the business changes of COVID 19?
  59. What coverage level have you achieved and do you still have any manual test left which are performed in your organizations DevOps approach?
  60. In improving the flow of work through your organization, improving throughput and improving quality, solving your DevOps problems, how do you know you are getting better?
  61. How do you get developers, security engineers, and DevOps engineers all on the same page so you can implement successful application security programs?
  62. How does DevOps automation give your organization an innovative edge to outperform large teams and competition?
  63. How does remote work and DevOps impact your organizations abilities to effectively monitor insiders?
  64. What do your organization charts look like for DevOps?
  65. What is your organizations most significant security challenge when adopting DevOps practices compared to a more traditional control framework?
  66. Do you deploy software on demand, during business hours, at any point of the lifecycle?
  67. How do you ensure that your Agile DevOps practice follows information security best practices?
  68. How do you secure your DevOps program without impacting the software development and deployment?
  69. How does Agile and DevOps work with the integration of large projects into particular projects involving hardware?
  70. Does your DevOps platform provide end to end guidance to ensure a smooth microservices lifecycle from development to production?
  71. Are there lessons from history that your ITSM professionals can use to create success when adopting DevOps and other Agile methods?
  72. How do you successfully integrate business and Enterprise Architecture into your DevOps and Agile environments?
  73. How do your DevOps Engineers help the teams audit costs and automate infrastructure cost optimization?
  74. How do your DevOps teams apply certificate provisioning and management without slowing down development and delaying production?
  75. Where is your organization in its continuous testing journey from Agile to Automation, DevOps and Analytics?
  76. How do you measure metrics, do you have KPIs identified across compute, network, database, storage, DevOps pipeline?
  77. Does your organization have a Kubernetes based orchestration framework for your DevOps teams to create and administer containers and microservices across the enterprise consistently?
  78. How do you protect DevOps toolchains and processes, which have elevated access privileges that can easily be exploited?
  79. What are the most important ITSM processes used in your organizations Agile / DevOps transformation, and how are they engaged?
  80. How do you implement DevOps in situations where you have multiple upstream and downstream impacts?
  81. How do you create monitoring (telemetry) to manage your DevOps software life cycle?
  82. Does your organization employ a DevOps methodology to automate the continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring of code and application infrastructure?
  83. What are the red flags your organization watches out for that will indicate something about approach to DevOps needs to change?
  84. With applications shifting to the cloud and DevOps becoming more complex, how do you maintain network visibility and control while delivering a reliable, flexible user experience?
  85. Can your organizations current IT landscape truly support a DevOps community, working on Agile delivery in a product cell structure?
  86. How do you eliminate or mitigate the threats posed by DevOps in the cloud while providing business units with rapid access to on demand infrastructure?
  87. As you get farther along on your DevOps journey, do you measure deployment frequency and compare it to the before picture? How often are you deploying now versus then?
  88. How do your DevOps teams implement small changes and check in code to version control repositories frequently?
  89. What challenges does your CIO or IT executive face in trying to bring a DevOps culture to life?
  90. DevOps is an operational approach that changes how organizations think about developing and deploying applications. But, for many organizations, this is vague, how do you introduce this change in your organization?
  91. Does your test automation solution fit into your DevOps tools and processes to simplify branching, test runs, status, and bug reporting?
  92. How do the Service Level Management processes of the ITIL Service Design phase map in your DevOps organization?
  93. Which DevOps technologies or capabilities are critical in your organization to achieve more frequent and less disruptive software release cycles?
  94. How do you align a continuous DevOps mode of development with a consistent business model in your organization?
  95. Are you aiming to make each project buildable in one command?
  96. When your organization brings service agility, operational efficiency and cloud enablement with DevOps, what is the underlying capability that is delivering this value?
  97. By using DevOps practices, containers, and kubernetes, do you expect the number of software deployments to increase, decrease, or remain the same?
  98. What steps allow a DevOps Engineer access to one of the unhealthy instances to troubleshoot the deployed application?
  99. Which team/individual in your organization is the primary driver for planning to introduce the DevOps approach to application delivery?
  100. When your organization adopts a microservices application architecture, what is the impact on DevOps cross functional teaming models?

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