Can Agile and DevOps work together? Are Agile and DevOps the same? Can you replace one with the other?

Agile and DevOps are highly compatible models that can work in harmony towards shared goals such as achieving better quality products and rapid delivery. However, both of these methodologies use different approaches to achieve a shared goal.

Agile aims for enhanced quality of product through continuous iterative development and testing in the software development lifecycle, whereas DevOps combines the development and operations teams to achieve rapid deployment in an automated manner.

Here are some more differences between Agile and DevOps that will give you a better understanding.

Author Bio – Aaron Cure

Aaron Cure is the Principal Security Consultant at Cypress Data Defense and an instructor and contributing author for the Dev544 Secure Coding in .NET course.

After 10 years in the U.S. Army, I decided to switch my focus to developing security tools and performing secure code reviews, penetration testing, static source code analysis, and security research.