Understanding What Makes DevOps Release Management Unique

DevOps culture is holistic and involves looking at every piece of a value stream and optimizing it. The DevOps philosophy seeks to eliminate silos or individual teams working in isolation. As a result, businesses that embrace the DevOps culture improve the transparency of their end-to-end operations. This goes against the grain of many established businesses, where individuals and teams have distinct roles and responsibilities with little cross-collaboration, if any.

The DevOps philosophy is about collective responsibility, encouraging IT personnel to work toward finding solutions promptly, along with remaining committed to lifelong learning. Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis, authors of The DevOps Handbook, outline these tenets in their book. Employees should be able to spend the majority of their time perfecting DevOps-related tasks such as infrastructure automation, network security, application monitoring...