Here's How To Gain An Edge In Digital Transformation 2021
Businesses with the ability to develop and deliver digital capabilities fast have a better turnaround in unexpected events and higher opportunities to expand, especially in this crisis-ridden time. Although we are all uncertain of what 2021 will be like, businesses that pivot fast will undoubtedly have better competitive advantages than their peers.
On the other hand, businesses that are forced to transform will eventually come back; and the ones who know how to utilize the power of digital transformation will lead the resurgence.
If your business focuses on accelerating innovation to respond to the opportunities, maximise efficiencies to increase long-term competitiveness, or a combination of the two, there are three main aspects that can help you to gain an edge in the current and post-pandemic world.
Identify your top application delivery bottlenecks and resolve them!
In order to meet your innovation goals and objectives, you need a team of efficient developers working in an application delivery process that’s streamlined from start to finish. Otherwise, you’re put at risk of being outmaneuvered by more agile competitors. In many different reports, like the one from Gitlab to Computing, software testing is perpetually the no.1 bottleneck to application delivery because it fails to ultilise the power of automation to perform repetitive and tedious tasks required to determine whether the update is changed or destroy existing functionality.
Other common bottlenecks include:
- Planning too much or too little
- Poor communication
- Constant changing requirements
- Technical debt that leads to slow and risky change
- Detect security vulnerabilities and defects later in the cycle or in production.
Methods such as value stream and software delivery management can assist in identifying the most pressing issues. Before establishing the optimal path forward, make sure to consult with top software development companies to get an insider’s view from the experts in areas like DevOps, cybersecurity, or software testing and quality assurance.
Unlock the opportunities for collaboration and reuse
Over the past few years, trends like self-governing product teams have led to the delivery of different development teams with different development approaches, using different toolsets, and even different working cultures. For motivation, culture, and ownership, these trends have created a dynamic working environment; however, these trends bring more cons than pros in terms of collaboration between different teams.
Collaborating with working teams who don’t share anything in commons work on interconnected applications in different approaches creates an inefficient working environment. At intersections, opportunities for sharing code, verifying assets, and revealing deployment artifacts are often overlooked. Conversely, it is difficult to move people between the team as project requirements and priorities change due to the many process and tool variations evolving. These factors lead to slow innovation and increased costs.
We don’t just take whatever each team has built and try to homogenize it. Different approaches and technologies should take place in different types of projects and application stacks. The Data Engineering team certainly doesn’t work the same way as the team to build your next-generation mobile experience.
However, there are almost certainly unrevealed opportunities for collaboration and sharing, especially on the borders where different products and components interact. You can help teams discover synergies, avoid unnecessary rework and focus on the work they are designed to solve by abstracting what each team is building and then giving it to a shared overarching layer.
Migration projects you can win in digital transformation
In the IT industry, the term “migration project” often refers to the process of moving from the use of one operating environment to another one. Migration can also be the upgrade of new hardware, new software, or both (according to SearchCIO). Let’s take a look at the examples of Cloud to see how jumping on a migration project can help you gain an edge in digital transformation.
At this time, everyone should have acknowledged what cloud is and recognized the advantages of moving applications and workloads from legacy systems to the cloud. This will help businesses gain speed and agility, and scalability while saving cost without compromising security and quality. The delay in moving to the cloud will cause businesses to be left behind in today’s competitive markets.
You can start by prioritizing what parts should be moved first. We also advise talking to your cloud-managed consulting services to identify your migration goals, define the plan; you can even ask them to help with your audit or evaluate other micro-services options.
Conclusion
These three strategies will surely help you to respond to urgent needs: identify your bottlenecks soon will help you to improve the work, unlock opportunities for collaboration and reuse will allow you to have a more agile team and save money, migrating to the cloud can help you to protect your data and applications if there are sudden and urgent restrictions in crises.
These aspects will help to increase efficiency in both the short-term and long-term, enabling you to gain a competitive advantage in the market.
