Top development teams are combining agile sprints with DevOps’ integrated teamwork for more efficient development cycles.

1. How to Optimize
Your Development Lifecycle
by Combining Agile
and DevOps
Top development teams are combining agile sprints with DevOps’
integrated teamwork for more efficient development cycles.

2. CONTENTS
Introduction......................................................................................................................1
The Limitations of Agile..................................................................................................2
A New Approach: Integrating Agile with DevOps.....................................................3
Defining the Lifecycle: 4 Steps to Integrating DevOps with Agile.........................5
Why a Combined Approach Is Worth the Effort........................................................8
About Logi Analytics.......................................................................................................9

3. 1
67 percent of organizations now either lean
towards agile or use a pure agile framework.”
HP Survey
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INTRODUCTION
Application development and deployment have become increasingly critical parts of business operations. That’s
why many organizations have recently sought to optimize their product development lifecycles.
Five to ten years ago, many of these companies were developing software products using a waterfall framework:
designing a project in full at the outset and then completing it in sequential steps.
More recently, increasing numbers of development teams have begun to embrace an agile framework. In an agile
approach, phases of a project are completed in two- to four-week sprints. Shorter, time-bound sprints allow for
more continuous evolution, feedback, and improvement.
The underlying theory is an agile approach leads to higher quality finished products. And agile is increasing in
popularity: According to a recent study sponsored by HP, 67 percent of organizations now either lean towards
agile or use a pure agile framework.

4. 2
THE LIMITATIONS
OF AGILE
While agile has undoubtedly proven effective for many organizations, some are still noticing gaps in their application
development lifecycles. Lately, one of the most common questions we hear from product teams is where to fit
the UI and UX process into their development lifecycles. The agile approach doesn’t traditionally include UI/UX
design work or QA testing in the development process, instead placing them in separate stages of the product
lifecycle.
In practice, this means that developers, QA personnel, UI/UX teams or designers, and IT all complete their own
aspects of the project essentially in isolation. While this may work for some organizations, in many cases, the
siloed approach to development can cause a project to remain stuck in certain phases longer than necessary.
A common instance of this challenge is misalignment between the planning stage of an application and the user
experience phase. The team responsible for planning may have a specific vision of how data visualizations should
appear to the user, but the design team—often a third-party design firm—is not made aware of those plans. As a
result, projects tend to stall in the design phase as iterations of various graphics are passed back and forth between
teams, awaiting approval.
An agile approach means developers, QA, UI/UX, and IT all complete their
own aspects of the project essentially in isolation. This siloed approach to
development can cause a project to remain stuck in certain phases longer
than necessary.”
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