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Lesson Learnt by Using DevOps and Scrum for Development a Traceability Software

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Agile has significantly impacted the software development lifecycle by introducing methodologies such as Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Lean Software Development. Recently, DevOps approach has attracted and gained a wide interest of the software development society. DevOps provides a set of principles that enables Continuous Development and Continuous Integration of a system. This paper presents a case study where it is designed and developed a food traceability software for a Greek meat company; it discusses the lesson learnt by applying the DevOps principles for the software development and by using the Scrum methodology for management purposes.

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This research work is funded by the Operational Programme “Epirus” 2014–2020, under the project “Advanced traceability of Epirus meat to improve productivity, quality and hygiene by using Business Intelligence Systems – EUKREAS”, Co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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    Dimitrios Salmas, Giannis Botilias, Jeries Besharat & Chrysostomos Stylios

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Salmas, D., Botilias, G., Besharat, J., Stylios, C. (2021). Lesson Learnt by Using DevOps and Scrum for Development a Traceability Software. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Ramalho Correia, A.M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1368. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72654-6_36

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