Improve the quality of software, developer experience and the frequency of delivery without the disruption.
Increasing frequency can be disruptive.
Cloud services are complex and costly.
Your Team wants to move faster but can't?
The high confidence we currently have on our platform infrastructure and deployment processes is thanks to the team at Servana. Their experienced, methodical and inclusive approach to DevOps has helped create a great environment for the team and our product.
Harin Vaghela, Product Owner, LVMH Digital
DevOps is a term used to describe the process of implementing certain practices and optimising the means of production within your software development functions. This includes; storage for source code, strategies for merging source code, the various testing methods (unit tests, api tests, user interface tests, behavioural tests and more) deployment process, provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure. Most definitions also include operational requirements in this definition because they recognise that within the software development lifecycle 5% of the time the application is in development and the rest of it is an operational overhead.
We provide whole DevOps Teams for project work to support and unblock your Product Teams. Our engineers develop and integrate hosting services, software pipelines, hosting setup for build and test environments, infrastructure automation and much more. They deliver improvements, features and planned changes daily. With your development teams feedback we create customised, productive developer experiences based on agreed processes. When prioritising work we consider your delivery as well as any must-have best practices to ensure your product is reliable and secure. Our DevOps Engineers are pragmatic and methodical, delivering work which builds confidence and enables you to ship software faster.
Solo Delivery A Team on a Mission
from £36k/year
1x Team Variable Velocity
1-2x Balanced Efficiency Upto 2 engineers are selected per calendar month.
Upto 2x Swimlanes per monthLimited to 25% maximum velocity per year.
Accelerated Delivery Teams delivering on a Deadline
from £72k/year
1-2x Teams Variable Velocity
1-2x Balanced Efficiency Upto 2 engineers are selected per calendar month.
Upto 2x Swimlanes per monthLimited to 50% maximum velocity on one swimlane per year.
Shared Source We reuse the source and configuration where possible.
DevOps Support 4 hour response if not handled by your allocated engineer.
Platform Delivery Multiple teams on a shared Platform
from £144k/year
1-4x Teams Variable Velocity (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%).
1-4x Balanced Efficiency Upto 4 engineers are selected per calendar month.
Upto 4x Swimlanes per month Limited to 50% maximum velocity on two swimlanes per year.
Shared Source We reuse the source and configuration where possible.
DevOps Support 2 hour response if not handled by your allocated engineer.
Off-peak Operations Support Out of hours Oncall, First Response, Triage and Resolution.
This enables us calibrate how we deliver work, ensuring we deliver to your deadlines more efficiently. The Plan you purchase is your minimum commitment. Velocity will vary across a 12 month period but the average will be maintained based on your minimum commitment.
We select the right engineers for the job from our Architect, Lead, Senior and Junior DevOps staff. For difficult tasks and peer reviews we'll provide more two engineers to pair on the work to ensure the standard is high and the work includes all necessary non-functional requirements.
A swimlane is kanban concept for managing work in progress. It is indicative of the workload concurrency within a Team. If you have 4x swimlanes we can either manage velocity at 25% across all or put 100% into one. Every Team has a cadence and we can calibrate to match their delivery cadence.
Yes, we are proponents for Kanban and Scrum.
We deliver transformational capabilities to your Product Teams To use the accordion click the header to expand the items.
We actively prioritise work that unblocks and accelerates progress.
We hunt for any processes in your development teams that is costing them time.
Kanban gives us better control of 'Work in Progress' and enables us to integrate.
We deliver core features and functionality to a set schedule usually in-sync with your sprints.
In general we are tool-agnostic, we use them all. Tools like Slack, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Basecamp or whatever tools you use.
We begin work based on our Work in Progress (WIP) queues.
So your Product Teams know what work is currently in progress, whats up next and whats being delivered.
All our work is versioned and any new changes are delivered in packages that are versioned ensuring we can manage the upgrade process.
We like change, our work is refined and mature enough to encourage changes. Before a piece of work enters the 'Work in Progress' queue we have a Delivery plan.
Everything we do considers the risk to your customers and the development teams. We build in methods and functionality to manage this risk.
Our DevOps Centre in Bournemouth, UK, serves our customers globally but we have DevOps engineering connections in Shanghai, China and Europe to serve local markets.
So that we make empirical decisions about future features, updates and changes.
So that we can make empricial decisions about resource usage.
We aim to continuously improve how we serve you, using each stage to learn and improve in the next iteration.
Your people are the most critical components in your software development capability. With our DevOps as a Service, you can eliminate unnecessary context switching, improve the speed of anomaly detection and the frequency of testing, reduce the overhead of managing environments, do reliable deployments and harness monitoring tools and analytics to improve decision making. Protecting your resources is one way you can improve ROI on any investment in your software development capability.
Teams continuously get distracted with cloud service infrastructure and non-differentiating technologies. Distractions are cataclysmic for software development teams. They affect productivity and can erase entire sprints worth of progress. Not just when implementing but also the lengthy debates talking about them. Developing software is already very challenging and expensive what software teams need is more time focused on their problem domain; the businesses need more focus on product development and delivery.
Businesses are continuously investing in their software development capabilities, and our DevOps as a Service is a proven method of unlocking value. Improve ROI from productivity improvements which we estimate adds one day a week back into your software development capability. You will also be able to find cost savings from better management of cloud infrastructure with automation that reduces the runtime of resources based on the demands of your customers and software development teams.
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