Agile versus DevOps – is there any difference?
Viktor Farcic: But then if you ignore the implementation on conceptual grounds, is there any real difference between Agile and DevOps?
Gregory Bledsoe: Yes, there is. Accenture has recently bought SolutionsIQ, a consulting organization that specializes in building business agility. SolutionsIQ is really good at developing those deep and trusted relationships, where they're telling people the hard truths and helping them to incrementally move toward a less pathological and more empirical structure and delivery chain.
SolutionsIQ views DevOps as a delivery method for your Agile infrastructure and process, which is not wrong. But I view DevOps as encompassing Agile and extending it because DevOps took a lot of stuff from Agile in the first place. For example, the cross-functional collaborative team: we've extended that. We collapsed additional silos because we wanted the development in the business to work really...