The cloud has transformed how we think about software quality. Instead of preventing failures, we must focus on automatic recovery from failure. In other words, resilience trumps traditional quality measures.
Continuous delivery models further squeeze traditional notions of quality. Remember the venerable project management Iron Triangle? Among time, scope, and cost, you can only fix two or quality will suffer.
Only in today’s DevOps world, continuous testing, integration, and deployment upend the time metric, the DevOps cadence reinvents project scope, and cost metrics expand past software development to the total cost of ownership of the end-to-end digital initiative.
It’s time to discard the Iron Triangle and reinvent it for today’s digital world. Introducing the DevOps Drumbeat: balancing continuous testing, integration, and delivery with resilience, flexibility, and technical debt becomes the central quality challenge of today’s DevOps-driven digital efforts.
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