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What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps?

By Stuart Galup, Ronald Dattero, Jing Quan
Communications of the ACM, October 2020, Vol. 63 No. 10, Pages 48-53
10.1145/3372114
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The metaphor of development teams throwing applications over a wall to the operations group for deployment is often used to vividly illustrate that development and operations operate as silos. The DevOps movement was started in 2008¹⁷ to try and break down these barriers between the development and operations groups. The DevOps movement relies on a culture that strives to understand the capabilities and constraints of the other group (development or operations): "Delivering value to the business through software requires processes and coordination that often span multiple teams across complex systems and involves developing and delivering software with both quality and resiliency."¹¹

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Automation is a major enabler of DevOps as it is highly desirable to automate provisioning, release management, and anything else that is possible. Continuous build, integration, and delivery are also enablers of DevOps.¹⁷ But DevOps is not just about tools that facilitate development and deployment. In The DevOps Handbook,¹⁹ the following myths are debunked.

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