Preface

Both DevOps and the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) are about extending agility beyond the team.

DevOps looks to extend agility beyond the “traditional” boundary of development to include the deployment and release of the development to a production environment. This includes what to do if the new changes developed introduce failures in the production environment, activities typically done by operations teams.

SAFe® strives to extend an Agile mindset to products that require multiple teams to develop and maintain. In this paradigm, alignment and the ability to properly execute delivery and release are among the important factors for success. Both these factors are encouraged by DevOps. It is for this reason that to implement SAFe, you need to make sure that DevOps is implemented as well.

This book looks at the DevOps approach used in the SAFe. While there are practices specific to SAFe, many of the concepts, practices, and theories we introduce for DevOps are truly universal and are not limited to SAFe exclusively.

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