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DevOps Practices for Development Teams
DevOps practices help development teams take ownership of the full delivery lifecycle, from code to production. GitScrum supports DevOps workflows by integrating with CI/CD pipelines, tracking deployments alongside development work, and providing visibility across the entire delivery process.
DevOps Fundamentals
DORA Metrics
FOUR KEY METRICS:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ METRIC │ ELITE │ HIGH │ MEDIUM │
├───────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ Deployment Frequency │ Multiple │ Weekly- │ Monthly- │
│ │ per day │ Monthly │ 6 months │
├───────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ Lead Time for Changes │ < 1 hour │ 1 day - │ 1 week - │
│ │ │ 1 week │ 1 month │
├───────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ Change Failure Rate │ 0-15% │ 16-30% │ 31-45% │
├───────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ MTTR │ < 1 hour │ < 1 day │ < 1 week │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
DevOps Pipeline
END-TO-END DELIVERY PIPELINE:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ PLAN → CODE → BUILD → TEST → RELEASE → DEPLOY → MONITOR │
│ │
│ GitScrum Git CI CI/CD GitScrum CD │
│ Coverage: ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ │
│ │
│ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│
│ │ • Task planning • Commit linking ││
│ │ • Sprint management • PR tracking ││
│ │ • Backlog grooming • Build status ││
│ │ • Release planning • Test results ││
│ │ • Deployment tracking ││
│ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Practical Implementation
Infrastructure as Code
IAC IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ TRACK INFRASTRUCTURE WORK: │
│ │
│ Create tasks for: │
│ • Terraform module updates │
│ • Docker configuration changes │
│ • Kubernetes manifests │
│ • CI/CD pipeline modifications │
│ │
│ LABELS: │
│ 🔧 infrastructure - IaC changes │
│ 🚀 deployment - Deploy config │
│ 📊 monitoring - Observability │
│ 🔐 security - Security config │
│ │
│ REVIEW REQUIREMENTS: │
│ • Infrastructure changes need ops review │
│ • Security changes need security review │
│ • Both can be tracked in GitScrum workflow │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Deployment Tracking
GITSCRUM DEPLOYMENT VIEW:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ DEPLOYMENT HISTORY │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │
│ ✅ v2.5.0 → Production Today 2:30pm │
│ Tasks: #234, #256, #278 │
│ Deployed by: CI/CD (auto) │
│ Status: Healthy │
│ │
│ ✅ v2.5.0 → Staging Today 10:15am │
│ Tests: 456/456 passed │
│ E2E: All scenarios passed │
│ │
│ ⚠️ v2.4.9 → Production Yesterday │
│ Rollback at 4:45pm │
│ Incident: #INC-123 │
│ │
│ DEPLOYMENT FREQUENCY: 1.2/day (last 30 days) │
│ CHANGE FAILURE RATE: 8% │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Team Practices
On-Call Integration
INCIDENT MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ INCIDENT OCCURS: │
│ 1. Alert fires → On-call notified │
│ 2. Create incident task in GitScrum │
│ 3. Link to related recent deployments │
│ 4. Track investigation and resolution │
│ │
│ POST-INCIDENT: │
│ 5. Create follow-up tasks for fixes │
│ 6. Link to post-mortem document │
│ 7. Track action items to completion │
│ │
│ GITSCRUM INCIDENT TEMPLATE: │
│ • Severity level │
│ • Impact description │
│ • Timeline │
│ • Related tasks/deployments │
│ • Action items │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
DevOps Culture
BUILDING DEVOPS MINDSET:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ PRACTICES TO ADOPT: │
│ │
│ ✓ You build it, you run it │
│ Developers support their own services │
│ │
│ ✓ Blameless post-mortems │
│ Focus on systems, not individuals │
│ │
│ ✓ Continuous improvement │
│ Regular retrospectives on operations │
│ │
│ ✓ Automation first │
│ Manual processes become automation tasks │
│ │
│ ✓ Observability everywhere │
│ If you can't measure it, you can't improve it │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘