Which IT approach to development and infrastructure focuses on automating and pushing quality code faster?

DevOps is a set of practices, cultural philosophies, and tools that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). Its primary goal is to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of high-quality software. This is achieved by automating the software delivery pipeline (including build, test, and deployment stages), fostering collaboration between development and operations teams, and implementing infrastructure as code. The core tenets of DevOps directly address the need to automate processes to deliver quality code at a higher velocity.

A. theory of reciprocity: This is a principle from social psychology regarding mutual exchange in social interactions, not an IT development or infrastructure methodology.

C. Business architecture: This is a discipline that defines an organization's business strategy, governance, processes, and structure. It guides IT but is not a development approach itself.

D. Bimodal IT: This is a strategic model for managing two separate modes of IT delivery—one for stability (traditional) and one for agility (exploratory)—not the specific technical approach for automation.

1. Ebert

C.

Gallardo

G.

Hernantes

J.

& Serrano

N. (2016). DevOps. IEEE Software

33(3)

94-100. Section: "DevOps Principles and Practices

" p. 96

describes how DevOps relies on automation for continuous integration

continuous testing

and continuous delivery to increase the speed and quality of software releases. (https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2016.68)

2. Bass

L.

Weber

I.

& Zhu

L. (2015). DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective. Addison-Wesley Professional. Chapter 1

Section 1.2

"What is DevOps?"

defines DevOps as a set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change to a system and the change being placed into production

while ensuring high quality.

3. Horlach

B.

Drews

P.

& Schirmer

I. (2016). Bimodal IT: Business-IT alignment in the age of digital transformation. In Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Section 2

"Related Work

" defines Bimodal IT as a management practice for two separate modes of IT delivery

distinguishing it from specific methodologies like DevOps which can be used within the agile mode.

4. The Open Group. (2018). TOGAF® Version 9.2. Van Haren Publishing. Part II

Chapter 7

"Phase B: Business Architecture

" defines business architecture as the blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands. This confirms it is a strategic planning discipline

not a development approach.