Agile addresses gaps in Customer and Developer communications.
DevOps addresses gaps in Developer and IT Operations communications.
DevOps addresses gaps in Developer and IT Operations communications.
- Before DevOps, the development and operation team worked in complete isolation.
- Testing and Deployment were isolated activities done after design-build. Hence they consumed more time than actual build cycles.
- Without using DevOps, team members are spending a large amount of their time in testing, deploying, and designing instead of building the project.
- Manual code deployment leads to human errors in production
- Coding & operation teams have their separate timelines and are not in synch causing further delays.
- Before DevOps, the development and operation team worked in complete isolation.
- Testing and Deployment were isolated activities done after design-build. Hence they consumed more time than actual build cycles.
- Without using DevOps, team members are spending a large amount of their time in testing, deploying, and designing instead of building the project.
- Manual code deployment leads to human errors in production
- Coding & operation teams have their separate timelines and are not in synch causing further delays.
DevOps allows Agile Development Teams to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. This helps them to launch products faster into the market.
Other Important reasons are:
- Predictability: DevOps offers significantly lower failure rate of new releases
- Reproducibility: Version everything so that earlier version can be restored anytime.
- Maintainability: Effortless process of recovery in the event of a new release crashing or disabling the current system.
- Time to market: DevOps reduces the time to market up to 50% through streamlined software delivery. This is particularly the case for digital and mobile applications.
- Greater Quality: DevOps helps the team to provide improved quality of application development as it incorporates infrastructure issues.
- Reduced Risk: DevOps incorporates security aspects in the software delivery lifecycle. It helps in reduction of defects across the lifecycle.
- Resiliency: The Operational state of the software system is more stable, secure, and changes are auditable.
- Cost Efficiency: DevOps offers cost efficiency in the software development process which is always an aspiration of IT companies' management.
- Breaks larger code base into small pieces:
Dev Ops VS Agile
| Features | DevOps | Agile |
|---|---|---|
| Agility | Agility in both Development & Operations | Agility in only Development |
| Processes/ Practices | Involves processes such as CI, CD, CT, etc. | Involves practices such as Agile Scrum, Agile Kanban, etc. |
| Key Focus Area | Timeliness & quality have equal priority | Timeliness is the main priority |
| Release Cycles/ Development Sprints | Smaller release cycles with immediate feedback | Smaller release cycles |
| Source of Feedback | Feedback is from self (Monitoring tools) | Feedback is from customers |
| Scope of Work | Agility & need for Automation | Agility only |
