The methods that change the work of IT teams making it more suitable for the time-to-market needs of the new digital business: agile, CD / CI, DevOps and DevSecOps
The digitization of business processes, the opening of direct channels of relationship with customers and, more generally, the need to respond to new business needs make it necessary to modernize IT and adopt new methodologies for software development/configuration up to to IT operations.
Today most of the value of the company’s products/services depends on this, the ability to differentiate itself on the reference markets, the entry into production of projects and adaptation to the new needs of internal users and customers.
The most important change concerns the adoption of the agile method, the choice of choice for the implementation of new business projects that include digital components. A method that is based on the rapid creation and production of prototypes equipped with essential functionalities and which become a starting point for obtaining user feedback at an early stage.
Feedback to be used to decide the directions to take in the following realizations. A plastic and incremental project development method that requires, on the IT side, collaboration between teams and the ability to automate the processes that lead to the delivery, both in on-premise and cloud areas, of services to users.
The reference methods are CD/CI (continuous development and continuous integration) for continuous software development through the incorporation of new features and updates, then DevOps/DevSecOps (development and operation, possibly with the integration of security) to create a sort of automated assembly line.
A chain that accompanies the work phases ranging from the translation of business ideas into code to deployment in production by exploiting the automation offered by the development, test, configuration and infrastructure provisioning as-a-code environments.
This allows for short update cycles, functional to time-to-market, the continuous addition of new services or corrections to operational and security problems. While new methods can make IT work more synergistic to the business and rewarding for teams, on the other they require the support of automation in infrastructure management.
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