Why are many business instilling a DevOps culture into their organization?
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DevOps can be defined as a cultural movement and a technical solution to improve and accelerate the delivery of business value by making the collaboration between development and operations effective, which is rapidly spreading in software industry. However this movement is relatively recent, being necessary more empirical evidence about the real reasons why companies move to DevOps and what results they expect to obtain when adopting DevOps culture. This paper describes empirical research on practicing DevOps through an exploratory multiple case study of 30 multinational software-intensive companies that consists of interviews to relevant stakeholders. This study aims to help practitioners and researchers to better understand the context and the problems that many companies face day to day in their organizations when they do not reach the levels of innovation and software delivery they expect, as well as the main drivers that move these companies to adopting DevOps. This would contribute to strengthening the evidence and support practitioners in making better informed decisions. Furthermore, we have made available the methods to increase the reliability of findings and the instruments used in this study to motivate others to provide similar evidence to help mature DevOps research and practice.
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