Buckle Up!! My Synopsis on Agile, DevOps, and Scrum!!
As we all know, learning the different programming cycles of Agile, DevOps, and Scrum can be tedious. Well, that's why I'm here today to break down the differences between all three masterpieces! I will cover the definitions, life cycles, scope, roles, tools, artifacts, and benefits of each cycle!
Starting with DevOps!
DevOps is a set of practices that combines Software Development and IT Operations. DevOps's purpose is to shorten the life cycle of an assigned difficult project in order to achieve improved success in completing the product. The DevOps life cycle consists of planning, coding, building, testing, deployment, operating, and monitoring. The scope involves continuous integration and continuous deployment of the task at hand!
The benefits of DevOps, involve a faster and better product, a reduction in complexity, and more automation. The tools used in DevOps are many, including version control Git, internet hosting service GitHub, containers with Docker, and AWS (Amazon Web Services).
The artifacts of DevOps consist of scripting and automated testing tools. DevOps lastly has a variety of roles in the workforce including DevOps Evangelist, Automation Architect, Software Developer/Tester, Security & Compliance Engineer, and more!
Next Up is Agile!
Agile is an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches.
The benefit of Agile is the software development life cycle that has a structured series of stages that a product goes through as it moves from beginning to end. It contains the phases: plan, design, launch, develop, test, deploy, and review. The roles of Agile consist of Product Owner, Developer, Team Leader, Technical and Domain Experts, Integrator, Independent Testers, and Auditors.
The tools used in agile consist of Jira, VersionOne, Planbox, Lean Kit, Pivotal Tracker, Axosoft, Active Colab, and Taiga. The fundamental artifacts of the Agile framework consist of a specific approach to planning, managing, and executing work. The scope of Agile frameworks typically falls into two categories: Frameworks designed for teams, and frameworks designed to help organizations practice Agile at scale, across many teams.
So last but not least we have Scrum!
Scrum is a framework for project management commonly used in software development, although it has been used in other fields including research, sales, marketing, and advanced technologies. There are 5 phases within Scrum: product backlog creation, sprint planning, working on the Sprint, testing/demonstrating, and retrospective.
The benefits of Scrum help people and teams deliver value incrementally in a collaborative way. As an agile framework, Scrum provides just enough structure for people and teams to integrate into how they work, while adding the right practices to optimize for their specific needs.
The roles of Scrum are very similar to Agile. They can consist of the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and the Development Team Members. The teamwork involved consists of sprints that lay out the plan for production. This includes the scope of the production process to produce product backlog items.
The scrum tools consist of Jira, VivifyScrum, Targetprocess, Scrumwise, QuickScrum, and more!
Scrum describes three primary artifacts: the Product Backlog, the Sprint Backlog, and the Product Increment.
In conclusion, I believe all three life cycles share a purpose to improve the Software Development production process. DevOps is more focused on shorter and quicker feats, Agile is all about speed, and Scrum is about teamwork. That’s all folks!
