What is the value of Agile & DevOps?
The value of Agile and DevOps is still questioned, with doubts about the benefits it brings to an organisation. To measure the business value delivered by software development, your organisation needs to clearly articulate the value proposition associated to the business value streams.
As most organisations strive to realise the benefits of cloud computing by migrating their architecture and infrastructure to the cloud, the need to re-architect business solutions becomes apparent. There is now a shift from individual projects to delivering products and services by re-designing business value streams, measuring the success of software development by the business value proposition
FAQs
What is DevOps?
- About a decade ago, software was developed and updated using the waterfall methodology – a linear approach to large-scale development projects. Presently, the evolution of software development has moved to an Agile approach with incremental delivery.
- DevOps speed up the deployment of high-quality software by combining and automating the work of software development and IT operations practices.
- It incorporates inputs from all software application stakeholders such as end users, customers, cloud platform and infrastructure engineering, architecture, governance, security and compliance.
- DevOps represents the current state of the development of software delivery life cycle from application-wide code releases every few months (back-office system releases could take 6 months) to iterative smaller release as frequent as several times per day.
DevOps lifecycle?
DevOps as a term is sometimes used interchangeably with Continuous Delivery Pipeline. It is a series of iterative, automated developments or workflows executed within a larger iterative development life cycle designed software development.
It consists of 6 workflows namely
- Planning
- Development
- Continuous integration/Continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Continuous deployment
- Operations
- Continuous feedback
What is Agile methodology?
- Most organisations are now adopting Agile development methods to reduce time to market for their products and services.
- Talk to us about your Agile transition journey. We provide a range of services to support your journey from the deployment of Agile and collaborative tools to the design of a bespoke Agile framework. Our team of experts will work with you to ensure that we configure your Agile Centre of Excellence to meet your business needs.
- Our Agile coach will work closely with your senior leaders of transformation to ensure your investment in Agile coaching and training are targeted, embracing different styles of training techniques and incorporating on-the-job activities.
- Our approach to Agile methodology also includes mentoring and coaching Agile Delivery managers and cross functional SMEs to build internal capability and confidence.
What is your DevOps success strategy?
- As DevOps is a crucial component of Cloud deployment, organisations take a holistic view approach. They assess their strengths, embrace change, and focus on identifying specific outcomes.
- For organisations that deploy a “cloud first” design principle or “digital by default” approach, DevOps can be challenging especially if such capabilities do not exist and where required, is not a strategic capability.
- With current trends, DevOps now bring development and operations closer, balancing agility with stability and with the practice now focusing on transformation first, IT automation and transformation simultaneously.
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