TY - JOUR
T1 - From Agile to DevOps
T2 - Smart Skills and Collaborations
AU - Hemon, Aymeric
AU - Lyonnet, Barbara
AU - Rowe, Frantz
AU - Fitzgerald, Brian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - Although agile software development approaches have become increasingly prevalent, many organizations, have found they were not able to achieve a more frequent release cadence, largely due to different departmental functions operating in silos. In an effort to remove these silos, companies have moved towards DevOps. As digitalization continues, companies increasingly implement DevOps. We suggest three different stages in the agile to DevOps transition: agile, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. Based on an in-depth case study in an organization with several years’ experience in DevOps, we identify a fundamental disruption in the soft skills that software teams are expected to possess, and in the patterns of collaboration among teams. Arguably, smartness may be characterized as being flexible, teaming up with people who have a different profile, belonging to a different function, and achieving a quicker delivery schedule. In light of this, we argue that DevOps leads to greater smartness for the Information Systems function.
AB - Although agile software development approaches have become increasingly prevalent, many organizations, have found they were not able to achieve a more frequent release cadence, largely due to different departmental functions operating in silos. In an effort to remove these silos, companies have moved towards DevOps. As digitalization continues, companies increasingly implement DevOps. We suggest three different stages in the agile to DevOps transition: agile, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. Based on an in-depth case study in an organization with several years’ experience in DevOps, we identify a fundamental disruption in the soft skills that software teams are expected to possess, and in the patterns of collaboration among teams. Arguably, smartness may be characterized as being flexible, teaming up with people who have a different profile, belonging to a different function, and achieving a quicker delivery schedule. In light of this, we argue that DevOps leads to greater smartness for the Information Systems function.
KW - Agile
KW - Collaboration
KW - DevOps
KW - Roles
KW - Skills
KW - Smartness
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062684068&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10796-019-09905-1
DO - 10.1007/s10796-019-09905-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062684068
SN - 1387-3326
VL - 22
SP - 927
EP - 945
JO - Information Systems Frontiers
JF - Information Systems Frontiers
IS - 4
ER -