Predictions 2019: How Enterprises Can Improve Software Delivery

DevOps isn’t a thing you buy; it’s a process you adopt, such as agile software development. DevOps is about constant improvement and seeking to move from DevOps 1.0 to 2.0 and further. DevOps is a software development methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal of DevOps is to shorten the systems development life cycle while delivering features, fixes, and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives. In this eWEEK Data Point article, industry leaders at Delphix, Electric Cloud, IBM, JFrog, Pivotal, XebiaLabs and Datical identify the primary areas on which organizations should focus in 2019 to continue improving software delivery outcomes. Two common themes emerge: Organizations need to get faster and need to do so by eliminating manual efforts. Automation, DevOps and agile development all can fit the bill in various ways here. Andreas Prins, Vice President of Product Development, XebiaLabs “In 2019, developers will start freeing themselves from unproductive, burdensome tasks like scripting pipelines by connecting their activities and CI pipelines, such as Jenkins, to the rest of the software delivery team and DevOps pipeline.