Simplifying the DevOps Adoption Process

DevOps is a new tendency in business and information technology alignment. The purpose of DevOps is bridging the gap between the development and operations. Several sources claim that DevOps is a new style of work. Many successful DevOps introduction attempts and also many problems in adoption of this style of work have been discussed. This paper reports on research results in facilitating the adoption of DevOps in small enterprises. The DevOps adoption method and several related to it artefacts are proposed. The proposed method has been tested in a national branch of an international company with an internal IT development team.