What is it about?
This study investigates how different software-producing organizations structure their development and infrastructure teams, or more precisely: how is the division of labor among these groups and how they interact. After carefully analyzing data collected from 44 interviews with software professionals, we identified four common organizational structures: siloed departments, classical DevOps, cross-functional teams, and platform teams.
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Why is it important?
Many organizations wish to adopt DevOps. However, usually, there is some confusion about the meaning of DevOps: would it be about making developers and infrastructure people closer? Would it be about cross-functional teams? Would it be about creating a DevOps team? This study seeks to understand the different options to organize development and infrastructure staff by observing the current industry practice.
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This theory could guide researchers and practitioners to think about how to better structure development and infrastructure professionals in software-producing organizations. It also contributes to improving our understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of software production.
Leonardo Leite
University of São Paulo
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This page is a summary of: The organization of software teams in the quest for continuous delivery: A grounded theory approach, Information and Software Technology, November 2021, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106672.
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