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DevOps Competences and Maturity for Software Producing Organizations

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2018, EMMSAD 2018)

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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.

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Rico de Feijter, Sietse Overbeek & Sjaak Brinkkemper

  2. Centric, Gouda, The Netherlands

    Rob van Vliet & Erik Jagroep

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  1. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Jens Gulden

  2. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Iris Reinhartz-Berger

  3. Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  4. INESC-ID, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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  5. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

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  6. Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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Appendix: Focus areas and Capabilities

Appendix: Focus areas and Capabilities

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de Feijter, R., Overbeek, S., van Vliet, R., Jagroep, E., Brinkkemper, S. (2018). DevOps Competences and Maturity for Software Producing Organizations. In: Gulden, J., Reinhartz-Berger, I., Schmidt, R., Guerreiro, S., Guédria, W., Bera, P. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91704-7_16

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