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Towards Bridging the Value Gap in DevOps

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Software Engineering Aspects of Continuous Development and New Paradigms of Software Production and Deployment (DEVOPS 2019)

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The DevOps movement, which combines software development with information technology operations, enables the more frequent delivery of changes to a software system. Adopting DevOps practices is seen as enabling the ability to deliver more. But is the more that is getting done actually of value to the end user or to the producing organization? In this paper, we describe how the ideas of value streams are being applied to software development and how more systematic handling of features is key to enabling an increased focus on the delivery of value.

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Acknowledgements

Support provided by NSERC RGPIN-2016-03758 is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments in revising this work.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Gail C. Murphy

  2. Tasktop Technologies Inc., Vancouver, Canada

    Mik Kersten

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  2. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Manuel Mazzara

  3. Schaffhausen Institute of Technology, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

    Bertrand Meyer

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Murphy, G.C., Kersten, M. (2020). Towards Bridging the Value Gap in DevOps. In: Bruel, JM., Mazzara, M., Meyer, B. (eds) Software Engineering Aspects of Continuous Development and New Paradigms of Software Production and Deployment. DEVOPS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12055. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39306-9_13

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