Abstract
The combined adoption of Agile and DevOps enables organizations to cope with the increasing complexity of managing customer requirements and requests. It fosters the emergence of a more collaborative and Agile framework to replace the waterfall models applied to software development flow and the separation of development teams from operations. This study aims to explore the benefits of the combined adoption of both models. A qualitative methodology is adopted by including twelve case studies from international software engineering companies. Thematic analysis is employed in identifying the benefits of the combined adoption of both paradigms. The findings reveal the existence of twelve benefits, highlighting the automation of processes, improved communication between teams, and reduction in time to market through process integration and shorter software delivery cycles. Although they address different goals and challenges, the Agile and DevOps paradigms when properly combined and aligned can offer relevant benefits to organizations. The novelty of this study lies in the systematization of the benefits of the combined adoption of Agile and DevOps considering multiple perspectives of the software engineering business environment.
Highlights
Future Internet 2022, 14, 63. https://The software development process can be viewed as a set of tasks required to produce high-quality software
This type of methodology is used in the context of social sciences and engineering and, according to Merriam and Tisdell [42], is concerned with a level of reality that cannot be quantified, exploring meanings, aspirations, beliefs, values, and attitudes that correspond to a deeper space of relationships, processes, and phenomena, and cannot be reduced for operationalization of variables
The qualitative approach adopted in this study allows for exploring and understanding the relationships and activities performed by organizations in their software development activity
Summary
The software development process can be viewed as a set of tasks required to produce high-quality software. The software development process provides an interaction between users and software engineers, between users and technology, and between system engineers and technology. In this sense, software development is an interactive learning process, and the result is an embodiment of knowledge gathered, transformed, and organized as the process is conducted. A software development methodology includes a set of activities that assist in the production of software. These activities result in a product that demonstrates how the development process was conducted.
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