Virtualization Technologies for Enterprise Agility

Abstract

Organizations are nowadays working on agile transformations in order to be able to anticipate on all emerging trends in their environment. As IT is becoming more important for throughout all business and supporting operations, organization can weaponize themselves by focusing on making their IT more adaptive or agile. Containers are an emerging technology that have the potential to support organizations in becoming more agile in respect to business and IT. However, from a literature perspective, containers are not denoted as being able to support in becoming agile, nor posses most traditional organizations knowledge on applying containers. This study aims to fill this scientific gap of knowledge, and fulfil the call from industry by designing a Container Maturity Model (CMM). We selected the use case of SDLC to focus on. The CMM was developed through executing multiple iterations where we interviewed experts with varying specializations. As a result, we delivered a maturity model that consists of three parts, including a Pre assessment (PA), Maturity assessment (MA), and a Results matrix. Organizations can use the CMM to start applying containers, or improve their container utilization based on the provided differentiating levels of skill regarding containers and SDLC. Nevertheless, we believe future research is required to further develop, validate, and test the maturity model.