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DevOps Transformation

Unlock your technology edge

Slow releases, rising costs and unstable products are symptoms of deeper problems. We fix these  – bringing clarity to how your teams work, control over the software lifecycle, and measurable impact to your bottom line.

Delivery under pressure

In highly competitive markets, a pressing priority for firms is to deliver customer value faster, with fewer failures and lower operational cost. At the same time, AI is creating significant opportunities to compress testing cycles and accelerate delivery, but realising those gains requires clear guardrails around performance, scalability and cost to be in place first. And, underpinning all of this is a skills and culture challenge that tooling cannot solve. Many organisations carry the legacy of separate teams tasked with change, with distinct mindsets and siloed delivery models that were never designed to move as one.

 

Capacitas embeds within your teams to change that. We bring together people, process and technology into a coherent operating model, tackling the culture and capability gaps alongside the tooling, and we work hands-on until the improvement is measurable and self-sustaining. That means faster, higher-quality releases, a platform ready to absorb AI at scale, and engineering teams that own their performance.

£2.3M

annualised savings across 4 transformed squads

— a FTSE 100 firm

37%

faster feature builds, 45% less idle time, 55% faster testing — delivering 60% cost saving per squad

— easyJet

94%

reduction in test set-up time and £382K in annual cost avoidance through reusable frameworks

— easyJet

Edge unlocked

Accelerate speed of change 
Shorter release cycles, faster onboarding and streamlined workflows mean your teams spend less time waiting and more time delivering value

Reduce incidents 
Embedded quality and observability practices surface and fix issues in processes, driving down production failures and mean time to recovery

Release with confidence
Standardised pipelines, automated testing and DORA metrics enable teams to ship faster and know exactly what's working

Drive cost-efficiency and productivity
Removing rework, waste and slow manual processes frees engineering capacity and reduces the operational overhead that erodes delivery budgets

Future-proof your foundations
The operating model we help you build is designed to absorb change, including AI, without losing pace or control

Unlock the potential of your DevOps
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THE TECHNOLOGY EDGE: A MATURE DEVOPS MODEL TRANSFORMS YOUR PRODUCT TEAMS FROM A SOURCE OF COST AND RISK INTO A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE — DELIVERING QUALITY SOFTWARE, FASTER AND FOR LESS.

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Our four-stage model builds DevOps maturity into the core of your engineering capability

1. Discover

Assess maturity and surface opportunity
We evaluate your teams across ten dimensions of the DevOps lifecycle — including development, testing, quality, observability, monitoring and release management. Discovery sessions with your teams confirm what we find, surface the nuance behind it, and establish a shared view of the goal. This is where the baseline is set and where the trusted adviser relationship is built.

2. Realise

Embed change where it matters
Our engineers and consultants work directly within your product teams to drive change. Better ways of working, automated pipelines, testing and quality practices, DORA metric dashboards, observability tooling: implemented in your environment, with your people, at pace. Delivery is hands-on and measurable from day one.


3. Transform

Sustain performance and keep improving
Transformation without measurement reverts. We automate DORA metrics — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recovery and change failure rate — so progress is tracked, bottlenecks are visible, and improvement continues after the engagement ends. Your teams leave with the capability, the culture and the data to keep raising the bar independently.


4. Support

Maintain the gains
We offer a post-engagement option which provides periodic checks for up to a year to ensure capability is maintained and outcomes sustained – across cost-efficiency, performance, scalability and speed of delivery. Where workload peaks or team churn create pressure, we can also provide additional resources to protect continuity.


Boost your development capability

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Improve release quality and speed

Inconsistent processes and manual testing create bottlenecks and let defects through. We redesign your delivery workflows and embed automated quality practices so your teams release faster, with fewer incidents.


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Reduce cost and increase engineering productivity

Inefficient processes and poor observability mean budgets disappear into slow cycles and over-provisioned infrastructure. Our approach drives down cloud spend, removes rework and increases engineering output — so the same headcount delivers significantly more, at a lower unit cost.

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Gain visibility through DORA metrics

Without consistent measurement, improvement is guesswork. We implement automated DORA metrics across your teams, giving leadership real-time data on delivery performance and a clear baseline to improve from.

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Build a culture of continuous improvement

Tooling alone doesn't transform delivery. We work with your teams to shift how they think about quality, ownership and feedback – embedding marginal gains practices that compound over time and outlast the engagement.

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Partner from strategy to execution

Many providers offer advisory or delivery, rarely both. Capacitas shapes the operating model at leadership level and embeds on the ground to make it real – because the gap between strategy and execution is where most transformations fail.

We started with a high number of defects leaking in production. Across our journey with Capacitas we got 89% reduction in number of incidents. This is a metric we report at SLT levels monthly and that is a huge achievement and a huge benefit.

Giulio Saggese

Head of DevOps at UKHSA

Capacitas helped us strike the right balance between efficiency and reliability in our cloud infrastructure - vital for our shift to SaaS.

Andre Brunetiere

CTO & CPO, Cegid

FAQs

What is DevOps Transformation?

DevOps Transformation is the process of unifying how your product teams develop, test, deploy and operate software – across people, process and technology. With Capacitas, that means embedding directly into your teams to reshape the underlying operating model: not recommending changes from the outside, but building them from within. The result is a coherent, measurable approach to delivery that drives lasting improvements in speed, quality and cost.

Why do organisations need DevOps Transformation?

Most engineering teams have adopted some DevOps tools and practices, but tooling alone doesn't produce DevOps maturity. Fragmented processes, inconsistent quality practices and a lack of shared measurement mean that delivery stays slow, incidents stay high, and costs keep rising. DevOps Transformation addresses the underlying model, not just the surface.

How will DevOps Transformation benefit my business?

By reshaping how your product teams work, organisations typically achieve:
  • Greater productivity and improved quality
  • Faster, more reliable release cycles
  • Significant reductions in production incidents
  • Lower cloud and operational costs
  • Greater engineering confidence and reduced firefighting

How do DORA metrics work, and how are they used?

DORA metrics – deployment frequency (how often you successfully release to production), lead time for changes (how long it takes a commit to reach production), mean time to recovery (how quickly you restore service after an incident) and change failure rate (the proportion of releases that cause a degradation or failure) – give your teams a consistent, objective picture of delivery performance. Used well, they surface bottlenecks and improvement opportunities rather than benchmarking individuals. We work with leadership to establish that framing before metrics go live, so teams understand what the data will and won't be used for.

How do you actually make the improvements – not just recommend them?

We use a Marginal Gains approach: structured, incremental improvements across each dimension of your DevOps maturity, implemented by our people working directly alongside yours. Each improvement is measured, validated and built on, creating compound progress that sticks rather than a transformation that fades after the engagement ends.

How do you get development and operations teams genuinely working together?

Both sides already share the same goal – reliable software in production. The work is in removing the barriers that stop them from getting there together: siloed tooling, inconsistent workflows, and a lack of shared metrics. When those are addressed systematically, collaboration follows naturally. Environment shapes behaviour.

Does DevOps Transformation work across sectors?

Yes. The underlying challenges — slow releases, high incident rates, rising costs and fragmented ways of working — are consistent across industries wherever software delivery is core to the business. Our approach has delivered measurable impact across:



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