Enhancing Lean Software Development by using Devops Practices

Abstract

Competition between companies has made a great pressure to produce new features continuously as fast as possible, subsequently successful software companies needs to learn more about customers and get new features out to them more rapidly. Lean software development cannot integrate between development and operation teams. DevOps enables this merge between them and creates operational parts as one part of the development process and made it up to date during the development phase, so reduced errors during the deployment. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how one can use devOps practices to improve the performance of lean software development production process and introduce a new framework that merge lean and devOps process. The research has been evaluated on a sample of 2 departments in Faculty of Commerce at Helwan University. The results of this work have led to reduce the response delivery time for customers and rapid feedback provides accurate expectations for customer needs that lead to lower levels of deployment pains and lower change fail rates.