Measuring DevOps Maturity: Assessing Progress and Setting Goals for Improvement

I’ve been working in DevOps for over a decade, and one question comes up constantly: “How do we know if we’re actually good at this?” It’s a fair question. Plenty of companies think they’re doing DevOps because they use Jenkins and have a Slack channel called #devops. But that’s not really DevOps.
Real DevOps maturity is messier and more complex than most frameworks suggest. It’s about people, processes, and tools working together – and measuring that isn’t straightforward.