The importance of automation

Software development and delivery have moved away from traditional project-based teams to product-based teams. So, gone are the days when you would get a new project and form a new team to deliver it. It would take years to deliver it with a diligent army of enterprise and solution architects, business analysts, software developers, QA analysts, and the operations team working at different phases of the software development life cycle. The manner in which technology is changing is so rapid that what is relevant today might not be relevant in a year's time. Therefore, the traditional project-based waterfall model would not work at the current time.

The project management function is quickly diluting, and software development teams are transitioning to Agile teams that deliver in Sprints iteratively. Therefore, if there is a new requirement, we don't wait for the entire thing to be signed off before we start to do design, development, QA, and...