THE DEVOPS SYNERGY
Padmapriya Sridhar Today’s mantra for software delivery is Agility. It is a huge differentiator that gives organizations a competitive edge, and emboldens even fledgling start-ups to challenge giants in the IT industry. Traditional methods of software development have not been able to cope with today’s velocity of delivery and innovation demands, and are screaming for a lighter yet holistic approach. In traditional development models like Waterfall, phases of the development life cycle are followed sequentially: Requirements, Analysis & Design, Development, Integration & Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance, with documentation and sign-off at the end of each phase. This approach is heavy and documentation-
intensive and is not quite responsive to requirement or scope changes since it dictates strict adherence to the linear process model. And worse still, the end product of a long-drawn development cycle may not be quite what the customer expected! Agile development broadly refers to methodologies like Scrum & Kanban that are based on iterative development/testing in short bursts called sprints, continuous feedback, retrospection, coursecorrection and constant collaboration amongst the teams involved & the customer. This facilitates incremental evolution of the software and adaptability.
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