Original Article: How to Evaluate the Maturity of DevOps Practices in your Company?

Summary

In this article, I will introduce you to the SMART Maturity Assessment Method, a Lean Manufacturing methodology adapted for evaluating the maturity of DevOps practices within your company. This approach helps to create a roadmap for continuous improvement. The SMART acronym represents five levels of maturity, guiding organizations from initial adoption to becoming a transformed organization that shares best practices internally and externally along the complete value chain. You’ll discover the four phases involved in conducting a SMART assessment: understanding the direction of change, grasping the current situation, establishing the next target, and executing the plan. I truly think this is a very simple tool yet really powerful.

Key Concepts

• SMART Maturity Assessment Method: A tool for evaluating and improving DevOps practices based on five maturity levels.
• Five Levels of Maturity: Start, Motivated, Applied, Reviewed and Improved, and Transformed.
• Improvement Kata Model: Understand the direction, Grasp the current situation, Establish the next target, Execute the plan

References

• DORA’s research model