Agile Vs DevOps

How are Agile and DevOps similar?

What’s unique about people who do DevOps?

What is the prerequisite for a Digital Transformation to be a success?

This is precisely where Agile and DevOps intersect.

To make DevOps work, all DevOps practitioners must embrace an Agile mindset.

All DevOps practitioners believe in:

• The automation of manual tasks and the importance of work not done
• The importance of working with self-organized teams made up of motivated individuals
• The continuous delivery of software to the client as the highest priority

Every single one of these points maps directly back to one of the twelve principles outlined in the Agile Manifesto which states that the four fundamental values that Agile practitioners must embrace are :

• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Responding to change over following a plan
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

How to do Agile and DevOps together?

DevOps people must be Agile.

To do DevOps right, DevOps practitioners must embrace an Agile mindset.

And not only do Agile and DevOps practitioners share a common mindset, but their goals are aligned as well.

The ultimate goal of a DevOps transition is to fully automate the deployment of working code into production. This represents full DevOps enlightenment.

The Agile manifesto states in no uncertain terms that its highest priority is the continuous delivery of software to the client.

Both Agile and DevOps share the belief that the best way to build software, ensure transparency and promote sustainable development is to get working software into the hands the clients.

Agile and DevOps have the exact same goal. Their goal is for dev and ops teams to use modern tools and invent processes that get software into the hands of clients as soon as it’s humanly possible.

Agile versus DevOps differences and similarities

So to summarize, here are the most common differences and similarities between DevOps and Agile:

1. Agile is defined by the Agile Manifesto, while there is no universally accepted definition of DevOps

2. DevOps defines a work culture, while Agile is a software development philosophy

3. Agile’s highest priority is continuous delivery, while for DevOps it’s continuous deployment

4. DevOps insists on the automation of all manual tasks, while Agile values ‘the amount of work not done’

5. DevOps practitioners embrace an Agile mindset, while Agile demands participants be self-organized and motivated

Agile and DevOps combined

Agile and DevOps are not conflicting ideals. In fact, the opposite is true.

Together, people with Agile mindsets who embrace a DevOps culture all share a common goal, which is the continuous delivery and deployment of valuable software to the client.

To do DevOps right, all participants must embrace an Agile mindset. It is only when this happen that DevOps based digital transformations are a success.

credits - Darcy DeClute

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