Agile and DevOps applications combination is gaining massive popularity rapidly and is impacting outsourcing. This combination added value to the IT Infrastructure Procurement process of an organization in terms of higher quality and optimized the total cost of ownership. The organization does not want to invest in such software that might be useful but unlike by the customer due to certain features.

This reason speaks a lot, as customer comfort needs to be prioritized; taking a challenge and shifting to Agile and DevOps Environments will end up as a benefit to the organization. The IT infrastructure procurement team needs to think and redraw the scenario of the application as Agile and
DevOps applications.
This article is all about, Agile, DevOps, and how procurement practices align with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices to enable faster and more efficient IT infrastructure deployment.
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Agile:

It is a project management methodology that includes breaking the project into phases for improvement and emphasizes constant collaboration. Due to its flexible and evolutionary nature, it has gained popularity irrespective of the industry. It is a simple application with great control over the projects. It
focuses on delivering quality and value to the customer as well as the completion of the project in a given time frame.

The benefits of Agile are: the overall quality of the final product is superior, customers get to enjoy the service, better control over the project due to its feedback integration transparency and quality-control features, etc., can predict risk along with overcoming potential that saves the organization from risks, empowers the flexibility, the open idea keeps on evolution.

DevOps:

It is the mixture of practices, tools, and cultural philosophies that help to build up the organization’s ability to deliver applications and services rapidly. It is an alternative to the traditional software development and infrastructure management industry. Speed is the major advantage to meet up the customer and market requirements efficiently.

The benefits of DevOps are Moves at high speed to adapt to the changes and ideas of the market as well as the customer, the pace and frequency of delivery are great, the quality of the application keeps on updating to increase reliability, can operate a large-scale IT infrastructure and development processes, its
cultural model help to improve collaboration, and, security code is regulated throughout the IT infrastructure process.

The result of procurement practices aligned with agile methodologies and DevOps practices are: It enables organizations to make intelligent moves more quickly as it helps to create room for negotiation, makes fundamental changes to organization technologies and processes, improves stakeholder approachability and usability, and reduces the surplus time investment in the market. The failure rate of any sort of new release declines, and fixing the bugs and recovery time in the system of IT infrastructure procurement is fast.

Summing Up!!!

As agile methodologies and DevOps practices are all about speed, the IT infrastructure procurements start to increase their approaches toward these practices. The centralized approvals in IT infrastructure procurement have become easy.
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