DevOps shifting software engineering strategy Value based perspective

Distributed software engineering is one of the hot research areas that has the most interest within the software industry for many IT organizations especially the global and multinational ones. Up to 90% of these organizations running projects are distributed over different teams and even countries, which puts Global Software Engineering (GSE) with high value from both industrial and academic perspectives. Many challenges attack these organizations due to current economical slow down makes delivery efficiency, cost control and time to market key Critical Success Factors (CSF) to survive in these market conditions. DevOps is newly emerging metrology stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and technical operations team to rapidly deliver software products and services to the market. The value behind DevOps is two folds: first one is mitigating the challenges faced by distributed software engineering and second is to bridge any gaps within current traditional organization processes. This paper introduces a new DevOps maturity model and assesses how this model will impact existing GSE practices and processes.