DevOps Strategy Canvas — Accelerating Business Outcomes

The DevOps Strategy Canvas is a framework to help you maximize your business outcomes while addressing the needs of your DevOps journey. It can provide enterprises, large and small, with a tool for creating a shared vision and unlocking the promise of DevOps.

For over a decade, DevOps has been a reference point for bringing technology transformation to life. Nearly every IT vendor has reshaped their marketing content to fit in the DevOps lingo everywhere. It not only has helped to boost the traction but also helped in better understanding of DevOps in business & leadership circles. However, more often than not, DevOps is considered a tooling topic relevant only to IT. The larger vision, business outcome, etc. are rarely discussed.

When I ask technology leaders about DevOps strategy, I get mixed answers. Some say our DevOps strategy to automate the build pipeline, some say continuous delivery and some say it all about automating everything. Would you call this a DevOps strategy?

To add to the puzzle, we have new marketing terms introduced at regular intervals such as DevSecOps, DataOps, AIOps, BizDevOps, etc. Then there are overlaps between IT strategy, Cloud Strategy, Automation Strategy, and so on. The million-dollar question is how all these come together to make business sense.