Assess your DevOps health with the SAFe DevOps radar
August 2, 2018
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Inbar Oren
Hello Everyone,
I’d like to talk to you today about how we can help you assess the health of your DevOps’s implementation. DevOps and the ability to Release on Demand is critical in today’s environment. But embracing DevOps and building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline is a significant journey for most enterprises. How do we know how well we are doing, where we are on this journey, and what the next step toward improvement should be?
In our latest class, SAFe DevOps, we’ve introduced a tool called the SAFe DevOps Health Radar. The health radar was built to help Agile Release Trains assess their ability to Release on Demand. Since the release of the class, we’ve had many requests from participants to help them continue to assess their companies progress outside of the classroom. We’ve worked hard with our partner, Agile Transformations, to improve the assessment, giving it the ability to drill down into the 16 sub-dimensions for DevOps. The result is the latest version shown below.
The maturity in each sub-dimension is scored as ‘Sit, Crawl, Walk, Run, or Fly.’ After the ART or solution train ascertains the problem areas based on its health radar; the next step is to improve the flow, and the assessment provides suggestion on what the next level of maturity entails. Since we’re taking a system’s view; it’s better to move from a ‘crawl’ across the radar to a ‘walk’ across the radar, than improve to ‘fly’ in one sub-dimension while leaving the rest at ‘crawl.’ This concept is important because the best approach is to improve the overall flow of value across the entire Continuous Delivery Pipeline, not just in one sub-dimension.
You can access the Health Radar through the Metrics article on the Framework Website, which contains an excel spreadsheet you can download, or you can go to the Agile Transformation’s website, and try out the SAFe DevOps online assessment at: https://agilityhealthradar.com/safe-devops-assessment.
I hope this helps you progress on your DevOps journey,
-Inbar and the SAFe Team
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Shubham Baghwala
HI Team,
Can I please request you to provide me with the excel version of the radar
steve
Shubham, please forward your request to support@scaledagile.com. Our customer success team will be happy to help you!
Mohamed Adawi
Great Stuff indeed. Thanks for sharing Inbar. For Ceneralized logs and tracing. Are they part of the monitoring portion or how do we fit it in the radar diagram?
marc.rix@scaledagile.com
Yes, Mohamed, you would consider those when assessing your ‘Monitoring’ capability.
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Imtaz
looking for health radar big poster for class.
Harry Koehnemann
An electronic version comes with the DevOps course kit. I will send it to you via email in case you missed it. Good luck with your class!
Raghu Tammina
The assessment is so useful and really helps to monitor health of the transformation
david putman
Great idea Inbar
Do you have the radar as a vector image I can use to get a poster size version printed?
Steve Mayner
Hi David! You should have an email with the file you requested attached. Our apologies for overlooking this request and taking so long to get back to you. Thanks for your patience!
john wick
Thanks for sharing this information with us. I really found this very helpful for understanding the importance of health.
Steve Mayner
Thanks for that positive feedback! Stay tuned… even more to come on the topic of assessments to help measure how well the organization is doing with delivering a continuous flow of value!
Be SAFe!
Dr. Steve Mayner
SAFe Fellow