{"id":4988,"date":"2020-07-27T06:29:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kovair.com\/blog\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:07:00","slug":"the-merging-of-agile-and-devops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kovair.com\/blogs\/the-merging-of-agile-and-devops\/","title":{"rendered":"The Merging of Agile and DevOps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although some people consider Agile and DevOps to keep their positions in opposite corners of the boxer ring, their antagonism is exaggerated. By denying the stereotypes created by the oversimplified definitions, we can see that these approaches can become best friends in your organization.<\/p>\n

A report commissioned by a CA company shows that there is much in common in the benefits of using Agile and DevOps in IT companies across Europe. Most of the organizations agreed that combining Agile and DevOps is streamlining the processes and clarifying them. Many businesses make a single manager responsible for both Agile and DevOps, and it is also evidence of their similarity and interconnection.<\/p>\n

Let’s go a bit deeper into each approach’s features and find out the new opportunities opened by their combination.<\/p>\n

First, let’s unhook “Scrum Only” from Agile<\/h2>\n

The total identifying SCRUM with Agile is like saying that a wheel and a car are the same things. SCRUM is the software development model with defined iterations and the most popular framework of Agile approaches. But Agile itself is a philosophy of the development process and a much broader concept.<\/p>\n

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Second, DevOps is more than Continuous Delivery<\/h2>\n

Connecting the operations team to the development, DevOps<\/a> are the efficient link in the value-delivery chain. Contrary to specific tools, DevOps keeps the project’s value in mind as a whole and is permanently holding the line of all the implementation processes to the primary meaning of the solution.<\/p>\n

Common or different: which prevails?<\/h2>\n

If there are so many misunderstandings in definitions, maybe the conflict between Agile and DevOps<\/a> is also a fiction?<\/p>\n

There are differences, like:<\/p>\n