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An Intellyx BrainBlog for CollabNet VersionOne by Jason English
In prioritizing work for value, do your application development and delivery teams take a measure-to-fit strategy for each feature, or more of a casual approach?
In popular culture, developers are often the last people to give a flip about fashion. It wouldn’t surprise me if your company has at least one guru working in sweatpants and flip-flops right now.
But let’s not generalize about geek clothing styles — there are also well-dressed geeks. [And who cares, it’s the results that matter, which we will touch on later.]
Dev and Ops teams will, however, become obsessively fashion-forward when it comes to new methods and tools. Nobody wants to be left behind on innovation. Given the rate of change in any enterprise IT shop, I’m predicting new, cloudy abstraction layers, AI-enabled tools and component types du jour will come down the runway this season to highlight the “cool” and “hip” factor.
Let’s move past the latest trends in agile development and intelligent operations, and get to the heart of DevOps: a relentless focus on continuously delivering customer value. Or, optimizing a value stream that is aligned to business outcomes.
Read the entire post on the CollabNet VersionOne blog here: https://resources.collab.net/blogs/what-value-stream-best-fits-a-devops-team.
