Business Enterprise Agility and DevOps Ways of Working Reconciliation
This chapter is related to the DevOps evolution Ways of Working (WoW) workstream and is divided into two main parts – the DevOps and business enterprise agility relation, reconciliation, and agnosticness as the first part and the design of the DevOps organizing principles in an agile context as the second part. We will start by providing a short overview of the relationship between DevOps and Agile, introducing the point that the two concepts can be reconciled agnostically. Then, we will discuss four agile models: basic agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Spotify, and value streams, all of which have been adopted by incumbents, while also providing an overview of their organizing structures. Moving on, we will discuss in depth the agile principles of autonomy and self-organization relating to an incumbent’s DevOps context and outline the main reconciliation and agnosticness conceptual dimensions...