DevOps Proficiency Assessment

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1. On average, what is your typical release cycle time from idea to production? (Required.)

Less than 2 weeks

1 to 3 months

3 to 6 months

More than 6 months

I don't know

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2. For an average project, what percentage of your development team members’ time is spent doing productive work vs. overhead work? (Required.)

10-25% Productive Work

25-50% Productive Work

50-75% Productive Work

75-100% Productive Work

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3. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous business planning? (Required.)

Nonexistent

Inconsistent

Regular, but inefficient, planning

Consistent planning process

Extremely proficient

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4. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous testing? (Required.)

Nonexistent

Inconsistent

Regular, but inefficient, testing

Consistent testing process

Extremely proficient

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5. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous release and deployment? (Required.)

Nonexistent

Inconsistent

Regular, but inefficient, release and deployment

Consistent release and deployment process

Extremely proficient

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6. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you drive business agility? (Required.)

Continuous integration

Deployment automation

Shift left testing

Shift left security

Shift left operations engagement

Incremental releases based on a Minimal Viable Product approach

A well defined agile process at the organizational level

None, but we plan to start soon

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7. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you scale for the enterprise by automating the delivery pipeline and speeding up release processes? (Required.)

Automated application deployment and promotion to environments

Automated infrastructure provisioning with infrastructure as code templates

Integrated automated testing in development, test, staging and production environments

Utilization of test virtualization in early environments

Orchestration of complex deployments for applications that span multiple platforms

Zero down time deployments

None, but we plan to start soon

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8. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you drive innovation? (Required.)

Using PaaS

Rapid delivery and feedback mechanisms

Experimentation techniques like A/B testing, Canary testing, etc.

Using containers such as Docker to simplify and speed up deployment

Cloud first application architecture

None, but we plan to start soon

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9. Which of these is the primary reason for investigating or engaging in a DevOps transformation? (Required.)

Our business leaders want to get fresh and innovative ideas into the market early and often

Our customer experience is very important to our business strategy

We are expecting competition from startups and industry disruptors, and we need to be ahead of the curve

I just enjoy taking quizzes

Other (please specify)

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10. Which of these best describes your #1 bottleneck today? (Required.)

Developers and testers are not obtaining environments rapidly and easily.

Manual deployment of applications and complex scripts to coordinate deployments is time consuming and error-prone.

Setting up test data and test harnesses to exercise automated and manual testing is cumbersome and time consuming.

Coordinating efforts among teams (planning, dev, test, deployment, operations) is difficult.

Complex application architecture with many dependencies makes it difficult to perform frequent releases.

Project management does not break tasks down into increments that support agile development.

Other (please specify)

DevOps Proficiency Assessment

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* 1. On average, what is your typical release cycle time from idea to production? (Required.)

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* 2. For an average project, what percentage of your development team members’ time is spent doing productive work vs. overhead work? (Required.)

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* 3. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous business planning?​ (Required.)

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* 4. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous testing?​ (Required.)

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* 5. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous release and deployment?​ (Required.)

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* 6. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you drive business agility? (Required.)

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* 7. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you scale for the enterprise by automating the delivery pipeline and speeding up release processes? (Required.)

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* 8. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you drive innovation? (Required.)

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* 9. Which of these is the primary reason for investigating or engaging in a DevOps transformation? (Required.)

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* 10. Which of these best describes your #1 bottleneck today? (Required.)

1. On average, what is your typical release cycle time from idea to production? (Required.)

2. For an average project, what percentage of your development team members’ time is spent doing productive work vs. overhead work? (Required.)

3. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous business planning? (Required.)

4. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous testing? (Required.)

5. How would you rate your proficiency with continuous release and deployment? (Required.)

6. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you drive business agility? (Required.)

7. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you scale for the enterprise by automating the delivery pipeline and speeding up release processes? (Required.)

8. Which of the following DevOps strategies have you currently implemented to help you drive innovation? (Required.)

9. Which of these is the primary reason for investigating or engaging in a DevOps transformation? (Required.)

10. Which of these best describes your #1 bottleneck today? (Required.)