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DevOps integration refers to the process of integrating the development and operations functions within an organization to improve the speed, quality, and reliability of software delivery. This is achieved by bringing together the development and operations teams, automating processes, and using tools to manage the entire software development lifecycle.
Implementing DevOps involves a range of technical and cultural changes that aim to improve collaboration and communication between development and operations teams, streamline software delivery, and enhance the overall software development lifecycle. Here are some general steps involved in implementing DevOps:
- Define DevOps Goals: The first step in implementing DevOps is to define your goals. This can include improving software quality, reducing software delivery time, increasing collaboration and communication, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
- Create a DevOps Team: You need to create a cross-functional DevOps team that includes representatives from development, operations, and other relevant teams such as security, testing, and release management.
- Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery: To streamline the software delivery process, you need to implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. This involves automating the build, testing, and deployment processes to reduce errors and shorten the delivery time.
- Automate Testing: Automating testing processes is a critical component of DevOps. This involves implementing automated testing tools and frameworks to ensure that the software meets quality standards and is delivered with minimal errors.
- mplement Monitoring and Logging: To ensure that software is operating as expected, you need to implement monitoring and logging practices. This involves using tools to monitor performance, availability, and security of the software and infrastructure, and to log any errors or issues.
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A consistent process is the key to success. We follow a proven blueprint to set goals and plan, implement, scale and improve your Agile deployment. Each implementation we do is customized to the needs, structure and goals of your organization.
What is value stream?
A Value Stream is simply the sequence of all of the activities that an organization takes to deliver on a customer need — and all of the people, systems, and resources required to do those activities.
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a value stream, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
- KAREN MARTIN AND MIKE OSTERLING
A Value Stream is simply the sequence of all of the activities that an organization takes to deliver on a customer need — and all of the people, systems, and resources required to do those activities.
The term Value Stream originated in the Lean manufacturing movement to describe and optimize how material and information flows. Customers may be external or internal, and are whoever receives the value created by the Value Stream. The concept of Value Streams is foundational to the Project to Product movement and SAFe, as well as essential to any Agile and DevOps transformation. So how is this seemingly simple concept different from a traditional approach to business process and organization? Most organizations today are not organized around the flow of value and are instead organized into functional silos, each working on different slices of value in an asynchronous fashion. The way work is delivered may be known and documented, but the organization isn’t aligned to it or focused on optimizing that value flow.
Value Stream Management (VSM) transforms the organization by moving beyond siloed, isolated departments and temporal project teams, to high-performing Agile and DevOps teams and teams-of-teams, working together, minimizing hand-offs and dependencies, and focused on relentless improvement across the organization.