As we celebrate 25 years since the release of the Agile Manifesto, it is fascinating to reflect on how this development methodology transformed software usability, velocity, and the ability to pivot to meet customer needs and overcome obstacles. These principles remain key in modern enterprises, and many organizations still apply Agile principles today. However, with AI-assisted coding and autonomous agents bulldozing their way into most software delivery pipelines in 2026, the shift to at least a hybrid Agile/DevSecOps strategy is an inevitability ...
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March 17, 2026
Imagine: You ship a new AI feature with 95% eval performance. Two weeks later, your support queue is full of edge cases your tests never caught, and usage is plateauing. What happened? Your evals optimized for synthetic perfection, not human chaos ...
February 17, 2026
The software development landscape has undergone a seismic shift; artificial intelligence has democratized code creation, release cycles have accelerated to breakneck speeds, and the software supply chain has become more complex than ever. Yet beneath this veneer of progress lies a troubling reality — organizations are racing ahead with innovation while their security practices struggle to keep pace ...
January 09, 2026
25 years after the Agile Manifesto reshaped how software is built, the 2025 State of Agile Report report from Digital.ai captures a major turning point: the rise of artificial intelligence as a catalyst for the Fourth Wave of software delivery, where AI is moving from a supportive tool to an orchestrator of the full delivery lifecycle ... The 2025 report reveals that AI is refocusing organizations on Agile's original intent: enabling rapid adaptation to change and delivering innovation that matters most to the business ...
December 08, 2025
The Holiday Season means it is time for DEVOPSdigest's annual list of predictions, covering DevOps and software development. Industry experts — from analysts and consultants to the top vendors — offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps, development and AI-powered dev tools will evolve and impact the industry in 2026 ...
November 21, 2024
Agile security sprints are specialized iterations within the Agile framework focused on embedding security into the sprint cycle. Rather than treating security as an afterthought or a final checkpoint, it's integrated into the regular sprint rhythm ...
September 10, 2024
With the rapid adoption of Agile and DevOps practices and a growing reliance on automation and AI, organizations face significant challenges in maintaining software quality. These evolving methodologies have reshaped the role of quality assurance (QA), making it simultaneously more complex and crucial in the current technological landscape. To address these pressing issues, Info-Tech Research Group has released its latest blueprint ...
April 10, 2024
Since the inception of DevOps practices, technology providers in this field have generally focused on a single aspect of the Software Development Lifecycle. Some expanded their product lines with additional discreet offerings, but for the most part, a vendor provided either Planning, Orchestration, or Testing. They didn't combine the three in a single platform ...
April 04, 2024
Recently, platform engineering has become the next big thing, sparking interest in its focus on developing self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs) for streamlined software delivery and lifecycle management ... In platform engineering, the platform is supported by layered services or tools, created and maintained by a dedicated product team, designed to help the needs of software developers by essentially stitching together components to create a frictionless developer experience ...
March 06, 2024
DevOps acts as an enabler when taking an application modernization approach ... As businesses evolve, embracing DevOps principles will be the cornerstone of their successful application modernization journey. These will ensure their software remains robust, secure, and user-friendly in the face of technological advancements and market demands. This blog explores the role of DevOps in application modernization ...
February 22, 2024
A majority (71%) use agile in their software development lifecycle (SDLC), according to the State of Agile Report from Digital.ai ...
February 06, 2024
Agile development continually improves enterprise applications and shortens development time, helping companies stay competitive. Artificial intelligence (AI) automates processes to improve efficiency. Agile and AI low-code are naturally symbiotic, providing the means to streamline application development by building on existing software and components ...
December 04, 2023
The Holiday Season means it is time for DEVOPSdigest's annual list of DevOps predictions. Industry experts — from analysts and consultants to the top vendors — offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact development and the business in 2024 ...
November 09, 2023
AI's widespread adoption is predicted to accelerate the pace of workforce transformation across industries, with estimates that half of today's work activities could be automated between 2030 and 2060, a decade earlier than previous estimates. To keep pace with this growing industry, software development will be central to the efforts of many businesses ...
March 14, 2023
The State of Agile report indicates that DevOps teams need more visibility through the entire software development lifecycle. Three in five respondents say the most valuable improvements to DevOps teams would be end-to-end visibility and traceability from business initiative through development, test and deployment to end users ...
December 08, 2022
Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2023. Part 4 covers development tools and agile development ...
July 21, 2022
"The cloud offers great opportunities for business growth and innovation, but also more possible failure points. As organizations embrace the cloud, they can avoid those failure points by making the transformation of quality engineering as high a priority as the broader digital transformation of their business," according to the Quality Engineering in a Cloud-Centric World report from Wipro ...
February 17, 2022
DataOps has emerged as an Agile methodology to improve the speed and accuracy of analytics through new data management practices and processes, including code automation. Simply understood, DataOps is data management for the AI era, powering both automation at scale and friction-free collaboration between humans and machines ...
February 07, 2022
Creating an agile enterprise goes far beyond just purchasing and deploying new technologies. Effectively managing your organization's software value chain plays an integral role. But achieving agility also requires a cultural transformation — led by leadership — to drive enhanced business performance, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction. Only when company leaders show commitment to this type of systemic change can they achieve an organization-wide shift in mindset ...
December 13, 2021
Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2022. Part 4 covers microservices and agile development ...
August 17, 2021
In part 2 of this blog, I dive a bit more into the intricacies of the agile roadmap. I discuss what it contains and the key elements that give any kind of a product roadmap the agility it needs. Let's get in ...
August 16, 2021
While building anything digital, including developing digital content, the makers of the roadmap should incorporate some amount of flexibility into the product roadmap. Especially while working in an agile framework, it is compulsory to have a feedback loop incorporated into the development process. In this blog, I discuss the fundamental differences between agile roadmaps and traditional roadmaps and why agile roadmap is the way to go ...
June 24, 2021
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CD) have emerged to streamline the entire process of software development and delivery and maximize its efficacy. This blog explores the way to extend Agile with DevOps for continuous delivery ...
May 27, 2021
Agile philosophy always puts people over the processes, thus more and more companies nowadays want to hire specialists with strong soft skills, because they are much harder to develop than closing some technical gaps that come with the experience. So here we go with the top 5 soft skills that are critical for a developer working in Agile environments ...
April 01, 2021
Though scrums have proven to be remarkably effective in organizations around the world, they can also contribute to burnout. To retain your best employees and look after the well being of your team, consider the following tips for your next sprint ...
