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Aligning Business Outcomes with Technical Agility: The Powerful Synergy of Apptio Targetprocess and DevOps Velocity

By Ankit Kumar posted Fri September 20, 2024 12:42 AM

  

Overview:

In the evolving digital landscape, one challenge remains persistent across industries—how do we better align technical activities with business outcomes? This critical question was highlighted in IBM's recent global survey, which found that developers are seeking more automation, better pipeline efficiency, and greater insight into how their work ties back to business value. Yet, despite advances in DevOps practices, many organizations struggle to bridge the gap between engineering activities and the broader financial and strategic goals of the business.
The Key Challenge: The Disconnect b/w Technical Activities to Business Outcomes

At the heart of this issue is the disconnect between technical execution and business priorities. While developers are focused on delivering high-quality software faster and more frequently, business leaders are more concerned with managing budgets, resource allocation, and achieving business outcomes with a focus on delivering value. These two perspectives often operate in silos, resulting in misaligned goals.

This challenge highlights the ongoing struggle: business leaders care about business outcomes, not DevOps vanity metrics like cycle time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, or mean time to recovery if the work is not aligned to achieving a business objective. What business leaders are expecting from technical investment are technical contribution to business results—value delivered to the customer, revenue growth, and efficient resource allocation.

Apptio Targetprocess and IBM DevOps Velocity: A Remarkable Synergy

To address this gap, the synergy between Apptio Targetprocess and IBM DevOps Velocity enables IBM to deliver a comprehensive Value Stream Management solution, allowing businesses to bridge the divide between their engineering teams and focus on business objectives.

  • Apptio Targetprocess provides end-to-end visibility into work, resource assignments, and budgets, creating a single source of truth that is aligned with the company’s strategic goals. This solution gives businesses the agility to adapt and prioritize work in line with overarching objectives, ensuring that the technical activities directly contribute to the desired business outcomes.
  • IBM DevOps Velocity, on the other hand, empowers teams to visualize, optimize, and increase the speed of software delivery by providing insights into key DevOps metrics. With these insights, organizations can improve the flow of value across applications and teams, thereby enhancing their technical agility.

When combined, these two products bring an unprecedented level of transparency and alignment between the business side and the engineering teams.

Linking Business + Engineering + Finance: 

To align business activities to technical execution, organizations need to unite business, engineering, and finance under one cohesive framework, and this is where the powerful synergy of Apptio Targetprocess and IBM DevOps Velocity shines.

Apptio Targetprocess provides a single source of truth that ties technical activities like resource assignments, OKRs, and budget controls to strategic goals. Meanwhile, IBM DevOps Velocity helps measure and improve the efficiency of the delivery pipeline, focusing on where to invest resources and optimize flow

This powerful combination is the key to unlocking business value. By linking business, engineering, and finance, Apptio Targetprocess and IBM DevOps Velocity help organizations achieve business agility. Here’s how:

By connecting Apptio Targetprocess’ top-down approach with IBM DevOps Velocity’s bottom-up insight, organizations can:

  1. Achieve business agility by linking strategic objectives with resource allocation, cost controls, and OKRs.
  2. Strategic visibility into the delivery pipeline, with actionable insights drawn from both development metrics and financial data.
  3. Align technical efforts to drive business outcomes, focusing on key value-generating activities along with measuring level of technical improvement.
  4. Make informed investment decisions using integrated financial data, ensuring resources are deployed effectively to achieve business goals.

This synergy helps connect business outcomes to technical activities:

Conclusion: A Unified Approach to Business and Technical Agility

The challenge of aligning technical activities with business outcomes remains. But through the combination of Apptio Targetprocess and IBM DevOps Velocity, organizations can truly harness the power of Value Stream Management and bridge the gap. The result is a seamless connection between business goals, financial governance, and technical execution—a key to sustained success in today's fast-paced, technology-driven world.

As more organizations look to improve their efficiency and agility, the synergy between Apptio and IBM offers a clear path to not only accelerate software delivery but to do so with a strategic, outcome-focused mindset.

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