“The entire industry is still trying to figure out what doing [DevOps] well means,” remarked Adam Archer, DevOps Core Services Lead at the IBM Corporation in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Which means, he said, “the percentage that’s doing it well is zero.” In a world of changing metrics, Archer explained that most companies are still trying to adjust to new ways of conducting business.

The “Right Way” to Do DevOps

“The way to do it well,” remarked Archer, is “to embrace the shorter feedback loops and not be afraid to test on your users.” With an “immediate feedback loop to your users,” companies are in a unique position to leverage instantaneous feedback — but also need to be prepared to “turn [a new feature] off with the press of a button,” said Archer, if responses are negative.

In recent years, Archer commented, there’s been a shift in the way developers work. Now, “when developers are trying to figure out what tools to use, they want to be successful in seconds, not have a whole bunch of set up time,” he said. While Archer admitted that IBM may have overlooked this change at first, he said that IBM is now beginning to focus on the new realities of a DevOps-driven marketplace.

IBM’s BlueMix DevOps Services, said Archer, aims to help companies accelerate their DevOps tasks. It’s a platform that offers the “perfect paring between Bluemix and DevOps Services” because it “allows IBM to improve how people interact with our tools.”

Enhancing Bluemix DevOps Services

Specifically, Archer said that Bluemix DevOps Services enhances “the way developers can work with the Bluemix platform.” It “facilitates how [developers] manage their applications,” and allows developers to “develop right on the platform, rather than locally.”

The benefit of this platform, he said is, “they’re able to immediately start writing without having to develop anything.” There’s no extensive set up or even much prior knowledge required. Bluemix DevOps Services, he continued “skips the gap between the development set up and the platform on which you run the application.” Users can immediately make changes and see said changes right away. The ability to “get things out quickly,” Archer said, is paramount to the new realities of an agile industry.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM Interconnect.