What is the latest buzz word you have encountered which has
Agile or DevOps in it? Is it devSecOps? Is it Agile Project Manager? Is it
Agile Developer? is it Agile Design? is it Agile Methodology? is it DesignOps?
...
It seems every marketer is pouncing over the success of
Agile and DevOps.
Let's try to decipher these terms.
Agile certainly kick starts and sustains incremental
improvements. DevOps is in its all simplicity an idea where Dev and Ops
collaborate (level of collaboration may vary widely) and focus on fast delivery
of increments with the highest possible quality. To maintain a small delivery
cycle, automation plays a mega size role.
The meaning of design varies as per the context. For a
product designer in social media space, a design may imply how a customer is
interacting with the product while for software architect design may refer to -
how the code is organized & written and usage of components &
libraries. It seems to me DesignDevOps
or most of XXXDevOps, DevXXXOps, and DevOpsXXX are very similar to XXXAgile and
AgileXXX - marketing attempt.
For convenience purpose, I visualize Agile is something
which focuses on people, governance, and processes with a sprinkle of
contemporary engineering practices while DevOps' focus area is a collaboration
between Dev and Ops with heavy doses of contemporary engineering practices and
automation. Maybe the term of my preference is AgileDevOps (yes I am guilty of
AgileXXX and XXXDevOps).
What do you think?
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