As someone with experience as an Agile coach, I’d like to talk briefly about my thoughts on this issue from a project and team management perspective.
Most of the mainstream product development teams in China have started to implement DevOps, a concept that emphasizes efficient communication and collaboration between “r&d team” and “operation and maintenance team”, aiming to release high-quality software faster and more reliably. DevOps is a philosophy, culture, and practice that aims to achieve a continuous delivery pipeline, with emphasis on key words like “deployment pipeline,” “automation,” “teamwork,” “repeatability,” and “visualization.”
In fact, if you want to improve the efficiency of development, it is difficult to rely on your own efforts. Only in an efficient team can you achieve the true efficiency of your own development.
Using automation facilities helps reduce software release times and improve the reliability of routine processing processes. Integrating automation tools into the development process and building a DevOps pipeline can help developers improve development efficiency and delivery quality.
In the process of guiding some R&D teams in DevOps transformation, I often use THE ENTERPRISE R&D tool ONES to implement the implementation. From the perspective of tools, IT helps me to effectively improve the r&d efficiency of many teams.
First, ONES can help you implement integration pipelining
Using automation facilities helps reduce software release times and improve the reliability of routine processing processes. Integrating automation tools into the development process and building a DevOps pipeline can help developers improve development efficiency and delivery quality. The ONES Pipeline supports the integration of a complete DevOps Pipeline, integrating the capabilities of code submission correlation, build result correlation, and deployment result correlation in one place to help teams better practice DevOps.
Second, information visualization allows team members to maintain the most efficient flow of information
Clear visualization of complex information enables team members to quickly capture key information and make relevant adjustments through feedback.
After the ONES Pipeline is integrated into the Pipeline, The ONES Project provides visualization of results in the Pipeline, allowing team members to directly view code build results, code quality analysis results, automated test results, and more. At the same time, team members can trace historical information and analyze relevant information.
Third, ONES provides the greatest convenience for cooperation between teams
Teamwork is one of the core tenets of DevOps. In order to reduce deployment risks, collaboration between various roles in the r&d, operations, and other technical teams is critical. In the process of product development, the entire technical team should have a common goal. Involve team members in the product release process from the start of a new project to ensure they have the opportunity to communicate frequently and regularly to deliver quality software faster and more reliably.
The ONES Project supports collaboration among members of multiple roles such as R&D, operation, testing and production, and provides functions such as associating different types of work items, agile Kanban, change of work item owner, comment @related members, and notification of page followers. In r&d projects, multi-role members are involved from start to finish in each iteration, breaking down departmental walls and allowing information to flow efficiently.