The Next Wave of Software Delivery – Integrating Agile and DevOps for the Digital Enterprise

http://devops.com/2015/07/09/the-next-wave-of-software-delivery-integrating-agile-and-devops-for-the-digital-enterprise/

Summary

As the competition across industries intensifies creating what is called a digital “survival of the fittest”, enterprises are now dependent on the rapid implementation of new digital technology and software solutions to remain competitive. The current methodology in accomplishing these rapid technical changes is Agile development and DevOps. Adobe is currently following the principles of the CloudMunch DevOps platform which has led to a 60% increase in the pace of application development.

However, the article mentions a three barriers of disconnection between traditional IT process and new Agile and DevOps delivery processes:

1. Traditional IT processes are longer than Agile. So most IT organizations do not have the capabilities and not prepared in conducting rapid implementations.
2. Supporting software ecosystems are very complex 
3. Agile teams have autonomy in the use of development tooling. This results in a number of different and disconnected development tools being used.

What methods are used to address the barriers of disconnection?

Hybrid cloud computing is becoming increasing useful in the migration of essential business operations to the cloud. Adobe is using CloudMunch, a DevOps platform to automate delivery of software. Hybrid consists of on-premise and cloud systems (off-premise). Businesses need to integrate their developers’ chosen tools into a single workspace to apply Agile development to a DevOps environment with a single dashboard.

Why is it important?

It is important to know the issues facing the integration of Agile and DevOps. Companies must emphasize the need for collaboration and address the disconnection that exists between the old and new worlds of IT. Agile and DevOps implementation methodologies not only affect business technical infrastructure, but affect company culture and how management styles are developed. All of this is an effort to accommodate the ever changing customer expectations. Professionals are being pressured to seek new development methods and utilize the cloud to continuously adapt in an ever-changing technical sphere.

[SPW - Adding the video of CloudMunch from Adobe.  This pretty much explains why it's different from other technologies that Adobe was using.   I'm not sure the "old world" of IT is the issue (e.g., Amazon Web Services and Chef), but Adobe wants to do it differently, since most of their tools are in the Cloud.]