Re:DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
by Aloha on Monday August 29, 2022 @02:48PM
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I think this is a great point. When agile and rapid release is done correctly, it should work out as "kaizen for software" not "we overhaul our UI and workflow every 3-6 months".
Small incremental change is easier to test in most cases, the issue is, changing software that was designed as a whole over to incremental feature improvements is hard, because often the existing bulk of code cannot be meaningfully unit tested.
Re:DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
by AdrianB1 on Monday August 29, 2022 @06:46PM
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Your company is doing it right, but that is not Agile :)
Re:DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
by parasubvert on Monday August 29, 2022 @07:58PM
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It’s also not not agile.
There’s something terribly wrong in the picture you’ve described. I do not know what Agile stands for, but our company was doing “a new version each Friday” for like 15 years. One of the axioms of such a fast turnout was “a new version should work in the old environment exactly the same as the old version” - except bug fixes of cause, some of which were made optional nevertheless.