TechArcis Methodology / Approach

To help a business transition to DevOps and Agile, we use a 6-step process:

• Method: We help the business evaluate its present standards, roles and processes, analyze its business requirements, check agile maturity and DevOps readiness and accordingly plan the transition route map for its work products, roles, processes, tasks, standards and guidelines.
• Tools: This involves selection of DevOps testing tools stack (both open source and from prominent vendors) and their integration to support iterative cycles and continuous delivery and deployment.
• Enablement: From designing and implement training for the in-house staff to getting the right people involved, choosing the suitable processes and ensuring a faster, effective collaboration and communication between Development, Operations & Test teams, we do it all.
• Organization: This involves defining the roles of the units involved and the organization as a whole.
• Infrastructure: From designing the testing framework to helping with the locations, connectivity and nodes, we do everything to help a business get started with the transition without getting buried in the elaborate process.
• Adoption: From crafting plans of adoption and organizational changes (such as adopting cloud computing) required to facilitate the transition to defining metrics, we help with every step of the process.

Implementing Lean Quality Management Office (QMO)

We help businesses develop a Lean QMO that creates and facilitates the delivery environment, supports the delivery of testing projects and creates and maintains the applications testing eco-system. QMO’s prime goal is to train and empower the testing teams embedded in various Sprint and Agile teams. From tracking their testing investment to finding ROI and aligning project goals to that of the enterprise, aligning testing resources as per technology and LOB, standardizing the testing process and bringing down test cycles and defect leakage with test automation, we help businesses do all these and a lot more with Lean QMO.

By making testing more business oriented and in tune with modern and emerging testing technologies and trends, a QMO can make an enterprise testing more agile, reduce the cost involved and encourage a metrics-driven continuous improvement process. This will help an enterprise respond faster to changing market trends and new opportunities, thus giving it a competitive edge that is vital in today’s tough market to survive and prosper.

We understand that for such a transition, principles of organizational change will apply and businesses will need to adopt IT testing best practices to ensure success. That’s why we help businesses time box every step so that they can measure and reflect on how it went. After achieving every milestone, we bring the stakeholders together to critically look at the results, celebrate success and look towards the future about how they would like to proceed with or change the iterative process.

TechArcis Differentiators

The success of DevOps depends a lot on people and fundamental changes in processes. At TechArcis, we believe the transition to DevOps should Start with people where the business:

• Breaks down barriers between teams
• Builds trust between people and in the process and technology involved
• Defines new titles, roles and shared responsibilities
• Focuses not on technology but on delivery of service

Involve fundamental process changes such as:

• Collaboration between Operations and Development
• Opening up roadblocks and removing constraints
• Automating and improving hand-offs between silos
• Improving code flow from inception to delivery
• Implementing feedback loops at each stage