DevOps has come a long way in the last 10 years. From its humble beginnings at a tech conference in Toronto, Canada the mash-up between development and operations has grown into a major focus for businesses all over the world.

Organisations know the true value of collaboration, with many providing tools, process and culture to support this, which are typically supplied to business unit silos - the antithesis to collaboration. To complicate collaboration further, many organisations have numerous tools that do similar things with no common or single tool for everyone to use. This environment creates a collaboration blocker, especially when people from different teams or locations try to work together; it's fundamental they have a common platform to capture and plan their work. Ultimately, businesses want to deliver high quality products to clients ASAP and need their IT to support and enable this. So in practise, how can you achieve this?

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.