Business Case

DevOps ROI is the number that decides whether a delivery improvement programme gets funded, halved or deferred, and most technology leaders can describe the benefits fluently while failing to produce a figure a finance director will sign. This guide gives you the working: a costed investment baseline including the lines most models omit, the four benefit streams that carry almost every case, how to price engineering hours and incident minutes without double counting, the payback, NPV and sensitivity maths finance expects, a fully worked two-year model for a forty-engineer estate, the benchmarks worth quoting, and the specific errors reviewers use to reject a business case.