DevOps for Continuous Innovation

This chapter links the areas of IT management, DevOps, and continuous innovation. After describing some fundamentals of IT service management, the DevOps concept is presented as a new agile approach toward an integrated lifecycle of software delivery and operations based on the five guiding principles of DevOps. In particular, several established “continuous concepts” from software engineering are recognized as enablers for digitalizing development processes. As an emerging methodology, DevOps has seen various enhancements, which are also summarized in this chapter before consolidating the elements in a DevOps-based framework for continuous innovation.