Businesses must emphasize the importance of clear processes for requesting, reviewing, approving, and implementing changes, rigorous testing and validation, and continuous improvement to ensure successful product development and deployment in a DevOps-driven environment. Credit: iStock/dontree_m It’s no secret that companies are committing to DevOps. In fact, according to a recent survey, three-quarters of leaders have adopted DevOps into their operations. DevOps delivers speed and agility to the development process. By cross-training operations and engineering, development teams can move faster through better collaboration, making continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) a reality for organizations. The challenge some companies face, however, is the change management of the structured approach for handling alterations within a development cycle. Change management is an enabling framework for managing people through a change, in this case, related to a product in production. The process ensures processes don’t move too fast and that production of new software or infrastructure isn’t rushed so that there are no disruptions. Companies that can align DevOps with their change management process see the greatest gains in getting products to market. But it’s not easy. Change management brings consistency to DevOps. Change management should be flexible enough to adapt to changes in […]