From Agile to DevOps: Smart Skills and Collaborations

Aymeric Hemon (), Barbara Lyonnet (), Frantz Rowe () and Brian Fitzgerald ()
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Aymeric Hemon: ESSCA School of Management
Barbara Lyonnet: University of Nantes
Frantz Rowe: University of Nantes
Brian Fitzgerald: University of Limerick

Information Systems Frontiers, 2020, vol. 22, issue 4, No 10, 927-945

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: DevOps; Agile; Smartness; Roles; Skills; Collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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