Challenges organizations face in implementing DevOps

So we agree, there is business case for DevOps adaption, and it provides the required agility to businesses in today’s fast-paced business environment. Is it easy then for an organization to implement DevOps? We need to know the challenges and be prepared. As per WQR2016, some of the challenges (the percentages of respondents citing the challenge are in parentheses) in adapting DevOps include:

• Insufficient speed in testing due to insufficient levels of test automation (39%)
• Difficulty in identifying the right areas on which the test should focus (33%)
• Lack of appropriate test environments and data (31%)
• Lack of professional test and quality expertise in teams (31%)
• Lack of good testing approach that fits with the DevOps approach (29%)
• Difficulty to reuse and repeat tests across iterations (29%)