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Why the Cultural Element of DevOps Is Crucial
The core of the DevOps culture is the emphasis on service. The following figure shows how this mindset helps to deliver a high-quality product. The focus on service is not just limited to ensuring a product is available for use by the customer. A service mindset ensures that a high-quality product is not only available…
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Story Maps and Business Value
The two approaches to developing products or services are incremental and iterative. The following figures depict the difference between the two approaches. In an Agile DevOps environment, both approaches are used to develop a product. You might need to build upon the existing parts or functionality (iterative). There can also be a situation where you…
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Multitasking Impact on Productivity in a DevOps Environment
Multitasking makes each and every task to take a longer time to complete than required. The cause of delay is due to the time lost when switching between multiple tasks, as shown in the following figure. According to Gerald Weinberg (Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking), there is a loss of around 20% of the total…
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The Benefits & Pitfalls of Collaboration You Should Be Aware Of
The success key of any team is teamwork, and the most important behavior of teamwork is collaboration. The meaning of collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is the central theme for DevOps Teams. Collaboration offers a number of benefits but also brings with it a number of pitfalls if not implemented effectively,…
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Why Taking DevOps “Literally” is No Solution
To create independent and autonomous teams around services, you might be tempted to build teams with full-stack expertise as depicted in the following figure. Although this might be a better setup, it takes the DevOps approach too literally. Each team, now, needs all knowledge and skills, and reuse is almost zero. DevOps is often misunderstood…
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DevOps: A Culture, a Movement, a Practice
If you’ve been working in or interacting with the IT world recently, you have probably noticed the use of the term DevOps is on the rise. This increase is fueling a growing curiosity around what DevOps actually is. In response to this, Clutch surveyed 247 organizations about their perceptions and experiences with DevOps to gain…
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3 DevOps Trends for 2017
DevOps is still shining bright in 2017! In this blog post, we will discuss three new trends which you need to keep an eye on this year according to CA Technologies: 1. Testing will continue to grow as a topic of interest In order to ensure high-quality code in an accelerated development environment, it is…
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3 Partners On Why They’re Forerunners with DASA
Everyone is talking about DevOps and the question is why is it such a hot topic? It’s been almost a year since we launched the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) in April of last year. We recently sat down with three DASA Forerunner Partners to get their perspectives an DASA and the current state of…
