To truly achieve the benefits of Agile and DevOps, companies need to align teams around products and enable flow by removing silos and organisational barriers. As we support our clients to implement organisation designs for Agile and DevOps, we have captured our observations to help you to avoid and address these five most common problems.

However simple it may seem to achieve, many development teams or projects don't maintain a central place to store their information. Sometimes, driven by a project task, someone may quickly set up a team page on whatever system their company provides, change the status of their task to 'done' and leave it at that. It is soon abandoned, lonely and unloved.

As a way of working, DevOps can often be spoken about with a lack of understanding of what it actually means or entails. In many companies, business leaders looking for improvement proclaim, "DevOps is the answer", without fair consideration of the impact of a new way of working will have. However, when done well, DevOps can remove inefficiencies by improving process and performance but only when clear outcomes are established. These improvements are transferable across a wide range of industries, with consistent benefits achievable for organisations of all sizes. So if you are looking for reasons why you should introduce DevOps, these five benefits should help you make that decision.