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Practical DevOps

You're reading from   Practical DevOps Harness the power of DevOps to boost your skill set and make your IT organization perform better

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785882876
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to DevOps and Continuous Delivery FREE CHAPTER 2. A View from Orbit 3. How DevOps Affects Architecture 4. Everything is Code 5. Building the Code 6. Testing the Code 7. Deploying the Code 8. Monitoring the Code 9. Issue Tracking 10. The Internet of Things and DevOps Index

What are issue trackers used for?

From an Agile process standpoint, issue trackers are used to help with the minutiae and details of the Agile process. The entities handled by the issue tracker might represent work items, bugs, and issues. Most Agile processes include an idea of how to manage tasks that an Agile team are to perform, in the form of Post-it notes on a board or an electronic equivalent.

When working in an Agile setting, it is common to have a board with issues on handwritten Post-it notes. This is a central concept in the Kanban method, since Kanban actually means signboard in Japanese. The board gives a nice overview of the work in progress and is pretty easy to manage because you just move the Post-it notes around on the board to represent state changes in the workflow.

It is also pretty easy to change your Kanban board by just rewriting the various markers, such as lanes, that you have written on your board:

What are issue trackers used for?

Physical boards are also common with Scrum teams.

On the other hand...

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