Agile and DevOps: Goes together as well as Peanut Butter and Jelly

 An understanding of how DevOps and Modern Agile fit together encourages the successful delivery of a quality product.  While DevOps and Modern Agile can be organized separately, an organization that implements both viewpoints arguably increases its ability to deliver quality products. Agile focuses on making development teams more efficient. While DevOp undeniably does make development teams more efficient, the focus of DevOps is on how the whole organization interacts. Instead of optimizing how development teams prioritize and complete tickets, DevOps optimizes reducing the amount of time it takes to produce a product by seamlessly integrating different departments in an organization. While DevOps and Agile are different methodologies, they can be seamlessly used together to improve development processes, company culture, product quality, and time-to-market.

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