The power of partnerships to accelerate innovation has endured through the decades. Just think of Pierre and Marie Curie, or Francis Crick and James Watson. Are agile and DevOps the next big duo? While companies that use agile by itself, or DevOps by itself, see improvement in factors such as speed to market, research conducted by Coleman Parkes with 1,770 senior IT and business executives in 21 countries and 10 vertical sectors, May–June 2016, shows that organizations that add DevOps to an agile environment see even greater results. Download the full research report titled “Accelerating Velocity and Customer Value with Agile and DevOps” https://www.ca.com/us/rewrite/articles/agile/accelerating-velocity-and-customer-value-with-agile-and-devops.register.html?mrm=425887&cid=GLOB-SMM-ABUS-AAR-000072-00000576

1. CAUTION: Mixing Agile
and DevOps May Cause
Sudden Business
Acceleration

2. The power of partnerships to
accelerate innovation has endured
through the decades …
Pierre Curie and Marie Curie
Francis Crick and James Watson
Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
Are agile and DevOps next?

3. Collaboration makes for stronger
results.
Pierre Curie, before meeting Marie, had
done ground-breaking research on crystals
and electricity.
At the age of 21, Pierre and his brother Jacques demonstrated the piezoelectric
properties of crystals, the basis of almost all modern electric circuits.
Among his many solo discoveries was that substances lose their ferromagnetic behavior
above a certain temperature. This “Curie Point” is used in studying plate tectonics, treating
hypothermia, measuring caffeine, and understanding extraterrestrial magnetic fields.
But it was Marie’s inspiration to study
uranium that led to Pierre and Marie winning
the Nobel Prize in Physics.

4. The best things work in pairs.
Even DNA strands.
Francis Crick and James Watson combined theory,
modeling, and the results of Rosalind Franklin’s careful
research to create the now-famous double-helix
structure of DNA.
Crick has stated that he would never have
found the structure of DNA by himself
without the opportunity to collaborate with
Watson.

5. Agile and DevOps practices are both
making digital transformation
possible.
82% of IT and business executives agree that
agile and DevOps methodologies
are critical to successful digital transformation
strategies.
Research conducted by Coleman Parkes with 1,770 senior IT and
business executives in 21 countries and 10 vertical sectors, May–
June 2016.

6. Companies are seeing strong results
in using agile development by itself …
A recent survey showed that using agile led to:
• A 36% improvement in time-to-decision (the time
to act on new opportunities)
• A 27% improvement in speed-to-market (the time
to develop, test, and release new apps)
Small wonder that 88% of the respondents to the survey have
implemented agile in their organizations, though only 30% can
be considered advanced users who have scaled it beyond
development.

7. … and DevOps, also by itself, speeds
and improves the software delivery
process.
Respondents to the survey saw an average 37%
improvement in speed-to-market (the time to
develop, test, and release new apps).
87% have implemented DevOps in at least one area
of IT, though only 34% can be considered advanced
users who have implemented it broadly across all of
IT.

8. More extensive use of DevOps and
agile across the company means even
greater success.
Percent improvement by advanced users:
Agile
DevOps
Speed-to-market 36% 42%
Customer satisfaction/NPS 48% 52%
New business growth 44% 48%
Employee productivity 50% 49%
Quality of development/defects 47% 48%

9. But organizations are now
discovering that adding
DevOps to an agile
environment drives even
greater results.Pairing the two leads to an additional:
• 41% improvement in operational
efficiency
• 29% improvement in customer
satisfaction/NPS
• 63% increase in new business

10. Great concepts build on each
other.
Charles Babbage designed (but never built) his Analytical
Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer.
Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron and a mathematical
genius in her own right, realized that such a machine could do
more than simple arithmetic.
She suggested an algorithm that would allow the machine to
compute Bernoulli numbers, making her the first computer
programmer.
The same is true of agile and DevOps practices

11. An action plan to better
implement agile and DevOps
1. Use business and customer-focused metrics.
2. Address skills gaps early and pay attention to cultural
issues.
3. Be agile everywhere across your company, not just in
IT.
4. Eliminate DevOps silos.
5. Don’t compromise security – build it in from the
outset.
6. Optimize your investments to address budget
constraints.
7. Don’t lose sight of the ultimate goal – to deliver
customer value.

12. To learn more about how to advance in your use of agile
and DevOps for better business results, download the
report “Accelerating Velocity and Customer Value with
Agile and DevOps" at www.ca.com/rewrite.
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