Stefanini blends industry knowledge with expert engineering and an agile culture. From the first phase of a project, business complexities and design solutions are clear and understandable. Lean Agile DevOps combines proven processes for strategic consulting and design thinking based on deep technical expertise that drives innovative, measurable results.
Improving Speed And Quality Of Delivery
- Value delivery to customers. A strong DevOps plan provides value to customers by removing or automating repetitive and low value tasks.
- Reduces cycle time. A strong DevOps process encourages agility in development and operations teams. Making changes to platforms and rolling out new features as the project moves along speeds up cycles. Since iteration is embedded in the process. testing, deployment, bug fixes and patch issues are attended to as they come up moves the project along.
- Faster go to markets. Time to market is faster because teams move faster. DevOps is a scalable development accelerant providing quick feature feedback which reduces response time to customer requests.
- Encourages continuous improvement. DevOps aligns people and resources around shared goals. When development and operations teams work together, DevOps builds a collaborative culture focused on rapid release cycles, updates and deployments.
Agile Capabilities
Agile Product Development
Organizations must explore new business models that will address volatility and sustain profitability. This means a new approach to delivering value across the entire product lifecycle. Employing Agile practices supports service-based business models’ demands and the rapid creation of new customer-focused features.
Lean Portfolio Management
Create value and develop processes toward success. Lean management is applicable in every industry, including consumer goods, manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences and public administration. A lean approach drives quality assurance, efficiency, fosters respect and process stability.
Agile People
Soar in the face of disruption by moving fast with an intelligent operating model. The stark difference between those who thrive amid disruption and those who don’t can be summed up in three words: purpose, agility and culture.
Innovation Hub
Our model of co-creation initiatives allows customers to navigate complex business goals, generating innovative solutions and actionable plans for addressing them, wherever they are in the digital transformation journey.
Agile Training
Acquiring Agile knowledge is more than just a project management strategy. Agile adoption involves an adaptive mindset designed to continuously improve productivity, encourage stakeholder engagement, and meet customer requirements.
Solutions
Reimagine your products and services. Stefanini’s powerful digital capabilities with deep engineering and industry expertise. We offer a range of solutions and services for digitizing business at all levels.
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Next Gen Applications
Our application services will support you throughout the application lifecycle from development and implementation to management and upgrades.
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Digital Transformation
Working across multiple industries, we offer a range of digital solutions and services to build both a roadmap for transformation as well as the technology to truly ‘go digital’ at all levels across your organization.
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Artificial Intelligence
With our ecosystem of tools, our global team of experts can help you design, plan, and build your AI experience while reducing costs and breaking down barriers to AI adoption.
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Digital Workplace & Infrastructure
From employee to enterprise, our solutions help you design a digital workplace experience that enables a flexible workforce and prepares an adaptable infrastructure.
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Cybersecurity
Our offensive and defensive cybersecurity solutions serve to improve your security posture and protect your data against an expanding attack surface.
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Automation Everywhere
Scale productivity, reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction by orchestrating AI and machine learning automation with business and IT operations.
Application DevOps & Management
We deliver robust software faster by aligning your business and IT servicing objectives. Reduce development time by releasing a better quality software product.
DevOps is a main concept to consider for the success of software development and marks a change in technology culture that is moving towards increasingly faster software service provision through the adoption of agile and lean working models. The model tends to improve collaboration and design flows between the development area and the IT operational areas with work pipelines that conceive continuous distribution and the ability to provide value to the Client thanks to more frequent releases and faster functionality validations.
Therefore, to counter increasingly stringent time to market deadlines, simplifying the process using the Dev Ops model becomes essential to improve efficiency and thereby overcome the challenges of software development. It’s possible to achieve better features, more speed, quality and performance thanks to the ability to combine multiple teams into a single, increasingly automated process.
Increasing Quality By Reducing Issues
We can reduce the time needed for development by releasing a better-quality software product. In summary, below is a list of the key and most valuable points of the model.
Better software is released in terms of quality and performance
Faster time-to-market
Reduced risks and costs of development
Establishment of better collaboration between all the players involved in the project
Greater agility in the company
Multiple releases in a short time
Drastically reduced potential margin for error
Improved user experience
Difference In Working With & Without The DevOps Methodology
A different and older development methodology produces a lack of collaboration between teams, which leads to several problems, such as an inability for multiple releases, which lengthens delivery times. Consequently, when releasing large blocks of code into production, it is easier to incur errors and subsequent states of emergency that, due to time and costs, can lead to a high risk of production errors that are increasingly difficult to resolve.
On the other hand, by adopting a method that also represents something of a cultural change, the frictions that can occur between development and operations are limited, improving collaboration between different areas of the same project and leading development teams to go forward and work together towards a common, shared goal for the creation of high-quality software. That is why productivity is increasing in the long run.
Through the automation of repetitive activities, teams can distribute software simultaneously on different platforms and release programs more quickly, reducing development costs and all the risks due to an irregular implementation of the features. A shorter release cycle meets the Client’s requirements and requests faster and better, including the ability to detect any problems that need to be corrected more quickly.
Thanks to this cultural change, the software released enters a state of continuous development and redistribution, ensuring more rapid and significant product innovation.
DevOps Generates Value For The Client
People
Focusing solely on tools is not sufficient when adopting this methodology, since it is also necessary to pay attention to investing in the human factor, i.e. the people who use these tools in a team. This essential factor is the only true way of providing speed and quality, while reducing costs. Eliminating team “silos” becomes fundamentally important, making sure that all the teams work together as if they were a single team, focused on a common goal. Each project requires the careful selection of people in order to bring in the right set of skills that can be transferred between the work teams, creative people with significant experience that have in-depth knowledge of current technologies and extensive backgrounds involving IT infrastructure. The work teams need to know how to self-manage and self-organize, to limit the overload of work in the project, and will must be trained on both DevOps and AGILE concepts in order to possess the skills necessary to produce increments of solutions that always work.
The team’s resources are enhanced through the phases of product management, architecture, system design and release, in order to deliver the project and provide the proper technical authority in an effective development process. Once again, it is essential for the right Product Owners and SCRUM MASTERS to be active components in the project, since they play an important role in helping the entire development team to achieve their goals, while ensuring that the Client is always fully involved throughout the development process.
To improve the final quality of the code, the teams must be able to take advantage of frequent and effective collaboration in order to be able to share the workload in a functional manner, work on revisions, always be informed on all types of updates and resolve simple conflicts quickly and easily.
Processes
To achieve successful DevOps results, in addition to the correct enlisting of human resources, there is a need to follow a precise software development process that includes version management, quality control and a testing phase. A company using DevOps as part of a continuous product delivery strategy is said to be able to deploy new software 46x faster, recover an error 96x faster and deliver 440x faster turnaround times compared to competition using more traditional methods. In the process, it is therefore necessary to define the version management and the continuous distribution program in advance. Developers need to be able to collaborate with the DevOps team through the right development and test environments, ensuring the ability to migrate the product from development to test to production, moving code sets across multiple paths.
The team must be able to work on fixes in one environment, while at the same time working on improvements in a second environment. It is necessary to clearly specify roles and responsibilities so that everyone knows exactly what role they play within the process, thereby making it easier to attribute the right priorities to activities, determine the scheduled timeframes, view the control statuses using specific Dashboards and be able to communicate simply regarding project goals. In so doing, good organization allows the entire work team to repeat the process quickly without running into problems and ensures that implementation can be continuous to ensure customer satisfaction.
Technology
Selecting the right tools is critical to achieving DevOps goals. The choice and use of the technology itself allows the construction of a stable operating environment and fast development cycles that ensure rapid software delivery by optimizing resources and costs. In the first phase, it makes sense to consider key aspects of the software development process such as test programming and security, and then evaluate the technologies that make it easier to collect and meet requirements and create prototypes. It is necessary to ensure that the tools selected can be used in the cloud and that they support network and IT resources, while always complying with the necessary security requirements.
To improve the quality of the software, automated test tools must be adopted to speed up the testing process, as well as detect workloads in production and identify problems in good time. Tools are used to continuously measure and monitor performance, identify distribution precision, system vulnerabilities, server integrity and application performance. Choosing and using the right tools will thereby allow the execution of the software version and efficiently move the code between environments, quickly releasing features and easily correcting any bugs.
Our Approach
We have seen how DevOps deals with radical change compared to more traditional concepts in the field of software development. As mentioned, it requires the right combination of people, processes, tools and technologies.
We make the quality factor a priority in every development.
At Stefanini, we use the best practices that allow individual resources and entire teams to generate value and continuously improve over time. We pay attention to keeping the development and operational teams focused on product development and capabilities. We move the project easily from development to production in order to have efficient control over version management and software scalability. We use platforms that allow teams to come together and work on frequent revisions, resolve conflicts and continuously improve code quality. Each team has all the necessary skills and is aligned during each development cycle, fostering sharing and collaboration.
We employ lean working philosophies and AGILE project management practices which, together with the addition of appropriate automation, allow us to guarantee results for each project and incorporate changes more easily. Therefore, we support a culture of iterative learning that allows us to transform any mistakes made in the past into training opportunities for the overall growth of development teams, as well as enabling and implementing integration and continuous distribution functions that allow us to optimize the quality of the products developed and timely delivery.
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