To accelerate the rate of business process innovation, DevOps is becoming more and more popular. It takes lean and agile principles a step further and is based on collaboration between business owners, development, and operations teams to create a continuous flow of software delivery. This allows businesses an added facet of versatility, allowing them to seize market opportunities quicker through an accelerated product release schedule.
The goal of DevOps is to streamline the flow along the whole lifecycle, from design, build and test, down to release, deployment, and operation in order to achieve continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD). DevOps thinking dictates that each part of your technology organization needs to work together as a unified system to provide specific capabilities to your business.