Chapter 7
Planning Ahead
IN THIS CHAPTER
Planning in a DevOps organization
Gathering requirements
Creating a minimum viable product (MVP)
Designing personas to identify your customers
DevOps was born of the Agile movement. In fact before Andrew Clay Shafer and Patrick Dubois decided on the term DevOps, Shafer preferred “agile project management” — a bit of a mouthful. (Shh! Don’t tell Andrew I said that.)
Because you're reading this book, you’re likely somewhat familiar with the Agile style of product management. You can think of DevOps as an evolution of Agile. It is an iterative process that allows you to plan, develop, and release code quickly. You adapt to changes faster in an evolving market, out-innovate competitors, and respond to failures at a more rapid pace.
This chapter aims to help you approach planning in a DevOps organization. Because of DevOps’s origins in Agile, you’ll notice many similarities to Agile if your company already works within that framework. If it doesn’t, you might also encounter more friction in implementing DevOps — ...
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