Agile

In this post, we look at both Agile and DevOps, how do they complement each other? Is Agile valid in a DevOps world? This is day 5/100 in the 100 Days of DevOps series. It is common to confuse the terms Agile and DevOps. Both are used together frequently, confused to mean the other but are mutually exclusive terms. Where DevOps is the practice of bringing together development and operations teams, Agile is an iterative approach that focuses on collaboration, feedback, and small rapid releases....

Here we are, very nearly 12 months after the UK entered it’s first national lockdown. Liberties were taken away from us in a way not seen since World War II. The economy has taken and continues to take a beating from the effects of coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2). Individuals have struggled as have many business, some have been unfortunate that the pandemic has cost people their entire business. In other ways it will be known as the pandemic which killed the jumbo jet, as no UK airlines now operate the instantly famous passenger jet that transformed aviation....

In this post, we are not looking at the implementation of these terms in your organisation but more what they mean in the wider context. You may then deduce their use in your own organisation from that description. Let’s begin with a bit of background though. One of the most famous implementation of this terminology I think is Spotify, the model implemented by Spotify is actually fairly famous in the Agile world and I have seen many organisations blindly follow this implementation, usually that blindness leads to failure....