Implementing Modern DevOps

Agile development and communication

In the traditional release management, one of the big problems was the communication: chains of people passing on messages and information, as we've seen, never ends well.

Agile encourages shorter communication strings: the stakeholders are supposed to be involved in the software development management, from the definition of requirements to the verification (testing) of the same software. This has an enormous advantage: teams never build features that are not required. If deadlines need to be met, the engineering team sizes down the final product sacrificing functionality but not quality.

Deliver early and deliver often is the mantra of agile, which basically means defining an Minimum Viable Product ( ...