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The Eight Functions of DevOps
Continuous Everything. The process is a journey and requires a growth mindset to continually evolve and improve.
In the previous article, we looked at what are the four pillars that support DevOps at Microsoft.
In this article, we will look at the eight functions of DevOps.
Continuous Planning
Continuous planning is more planning.
Traditional software development teams use to plan all the features that they will release for the entire year ahead. A big bang release would follow months of design, development and testing.
The problem with such long term plans is that they tend to become obsolete very quickly. They also delay any return of investment to when the software will be released.
Requirements are rarely clear at the start of a project and late feedback can cause a lot of money to be wasted.
