React with flexibility at all times in a volatile environment: Which agile methods help companies?
Shalini A. Nair, Associate Vice President, Corporate Initiatives, Quality, Infosys
Shalini is driving the Being Agile transformation at Infosys. She leads transformation initiatives for new ways of working that include Agile, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and the shift to customer-centric, product- and platform-centric operating models. She has more than 25 years of experience in IT service delivery, enterprise program and risk management, and organizational change management.
As enterprises strive to stay ahead in their digital journeys, with the constant threat of disruptions from digital natives, increasing consumer expectations, and the rapid advancement of technology, their ability to adapt quickly is heavily dependent on their ways of working. Successful organizations have navigated their journeys on a solid Agile-DevOps foundation.
Agile is a revolutionary approach to speed up software development and has stood the test of time. In a rapidly evolving technology landscape, a long wait time for software release is a surefire way to lose clients and business.
Many organizations that have successfully adopted Agile-DevOps at scale have seen a significant improvement in their engineering outcomes. For instance, in 2016, a leading global bank that used DevOps to rework its IT operations noticed an uptick in its software release cycle by 40% and a 70% reduction in testing efforts.
A product-led and platform-driven approach to work is gaining prominence with Agile and DevOps serving as foundations. This brings in a holistic approach to elevating the enterprise focus from engineering outcomes to business value.
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This article was published in the German publication Dev Insider, a tier-one trade publication focused on application developments, DevOps, and software project management.
