Agile Development and Operation of Complex Systems in Multi-technology and Multi-company Environments: Following a DevOps Approach

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Abstract

Big innovation and research projects usually require merging contributions form organizations with expertise in different domains. Managing and participating in multi-company projects that use multiple state-of-the-art technologies constitute a challenging activity due to many factors such as integration inexperience, evolving components, tentative requirements, independent teams or independent management centers. In the late nineties and in the early years of 2000, several methodologies arose with the focus on fast releases of working software, commonly known as agile, that aimed to address many of the challenges that this kind of projects face. However, in most cases, these methodologies were not fully adoptable as the automation investment was too high and it was not recoverable during the duration of the project. The global servitization trend and the appearance of approaches, such as DevOps, to support the continuous and fast adjustment of those services to stay in business has also impacted innovation and research projects. On one hand, matured technologies that reduce the automation investment have arisen. On the other hand, whenever it makes sense, services which benefit from the application of DevOps approaches are required to be implemented. This paper explains the implementation of DevOps approaches to support the agile development in the context of innovation and research projects. It also describes two practical implementation cases where such approaches were implemented and how they evolved in the course of the time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSystems, Software and Services Process Improvement - 25th European Conference, EuroSPI 2018, Proceedings
EditorsRichard Messnarz, Xabier Larrucea, Izaskun Santamaria, Rory V. O’Connor
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages15-27
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319979243
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event25th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI 2018 - Bilbao, Spain
Duration: 5 Sept 20187 Sept 2018

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume896
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference25th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBilbao
Period5/09/187/09/18

Keywords

  • Agile
  • Continuous delivery
  • Continuous integration
  • DevOps

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