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In today's fiercely competitive environment for customer satisfaction and brand loyalty, agile and DevOps are driving happier customers and employees. Results from a new CA Technologies global study reveal that advanced users of agile or DevOps realized significant increases of up to 52 percent in customer satisfaction and up to 50 percent in employee productivity.
The results showed a 30 percent advantage in employee recruitment and retention for companies that used agile and DevOps together to improve the working atmosphere for their employees – a huge benefit when you consider the shortage of talent in IT and the costs associated with attracting and retaining the best employees.
I guess I can't argue against it since I've been doing it nearly everywhere I've worked since the late 90s. Having separate Dev/Ops teams in SMBs [Small and Medium Businesses] is a pretty hard sell.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/01/12/devops-adoption/
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:30AM
I have used both Jira and Rally. Rally is a good tool for scrum agile *IF* you use it in their specific way. If you do that it is an excellent tool. If you try to put your own process into it the whole thing becomes painful to use and becomes just a way for the PM to make you do their work instead of using better tools. Jira suffers from the opposite problem. It is very flexible. But there is no 'default' way that is any good. So you have to muddle through it and hope you can make a process out of the thing. Then the tools to do it are kind of obfuscated and it is not clear how to track things or fix a track that is going wrong.
Both suffer from the 'you need to take a class' to make it work right. They are a good way for both companies to sell you their process using your money.