Today’s businesses move at the speed of agility, stopping for nobody. In particular, what happens in the greater economy is unstoppable, whether it’s a socioeconomic shift or the unexpected launch of a competitor’s product. Internally, however, things are far different.
Organizations with technology commitments have a small window for error. Gone are the days where customers would wait patiently for bug fixes, replaced with the urgency of finding the next-best alternative. In short, application development failures are no longer tolerated. Here are our three tips for avoiding failure:
Tip #1: Get Your DevOps Practice Started
The first tip to avoiding application failure is accepting that a new paradigm is necessary for change. In particular, adopting the DevOps philosophy ensures organizational communication and collaboration while also allowing for the facilitation of scalable feedback and continuous innovation. Furthermore, DevOps also leverages automation technology, which lowers the risk of human error that is quite often found during the application development process.
Tip #2: Develop the Right Culture
Good technology is not enough to change how organizations innovate, as employees must be on board too. One way to develop the right culture is to create training programs at the heart of a Center of Excellence (CoE) program. By providing the time and space for employees to learn and digest new practices, only then can there be implementation success. We discuss culture in this post.
Tip #3: Implement Operational Resilience
Digital transformation requires a level of resilence. As we shared in a previous post, many technology executives consider their organization’s ability to adapt to changing needs. While this approach to IT is generally uncomfortable for many companies, it’s mandatory for survival.
Some ways to adapt to operational resilience can include:
- Learning from failure. Through the implementation of DevOps philosophies, organizations can instill attitudes and approaches to detect and analyze failures.
- Decomposing larger applications into smaller processes through microservices. The failure of one microservice means that the entire process is not compromised.
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Overcoming application failure should be a priority for all organizations. With IBM’s UrbanCode suite of solutions, you can deploy and release applications with ease without the agony of development errors. Speak to one of our experts today by emailing us at sales@perficient.com
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