IDG Contributor Network: 3 pillars of devops success for 2018, part 2

In part one, I discussed value streams the benefits of monitoring value to better satisfy customers.

In order to manage value streams, however, organizations must have complete visibility into the software development lifecycle. And not only that, but this view needs to provide the business with context for making decisions. In fact, DevOps would not be possible without visibility.

To have a good understanding and “view” of the value stream, organizations need quite a bit of information. Value streams exist, but few enterprise leaders and their management teams have visibility where they should.  No one can deny that the software development lifecycle is an interconnected chain.  Each stage is essential to the whole, and IT leaders must be able to manage and easily view the dependencies and many moving parts. And, let’s not forget the tool chain. Often individual tools have a good amount of data that must be captured in order to have a complete understanding of what’s working and what is not.

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