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Cross-functional Team: Composition, Benefits, and Good Practices

Existek

What sets a cross-functional team apart from other types of teams is that it brings together people with diverse backgrounds and knowledge rather than relying on individuals who are specialized in one area. DevOps teams typically include software developers, operations engineers, and quality assurance testers.

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Following the Sun? Follow the Art of Asynchronous Communication

Modus Create

The Bangalore team starts working on a feature, tracks progress, and consolidates necessary information in a project management tool. For example, if only the Bangalore team has a QA and only the New York team has a DevOps expert, they’ll often rely on each other to clear bottlenecks.

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Business Analysis Tools: Reviewing Confluence, IBM DOORS, Lucidchart, Gliffy, MS Visio, and more

Altexsoft

Confluence is a cloud-based collaborative platform on top of a wiki engine that allows for collecting data in a centralized place and continuously working on it together. All product-related documents are created as wiki pages within a shared knowledge base. Product requirements template in Confluence.

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BitBucket vs GitHub?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

Now users won’t have to use 3rd party CI/CD tools to manage their DevOps lifecycle. A few GitHub reviews: [link] [link] Here are other GitHub features: A built-in issue tracker right within your project to manage your tasks easier. Either way, GitHub Actions was definitely a big hit in the DevOps industry.

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Top 13 GitHub Alternatives in 2020 [Free and Paid]

Codegiant

You can find some of the best open-source projects in GitHub. Even if you are a beginner, you can find great open source projects to contribute to. GitHub Project Management GitHub comes with an Issue Tracker where you can create cards, add notes, assign tasks to your team members, and track your projects effortlessly.

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5 Beneficial Ways ITSM Has Evolved Over the Last Decade

Samanage

Here are a few key ways IT service management (ITSM) has evolved over the last decade. The Influence of DevOps on Change and Release Management. The way organizations now think about equipment upgrades, making changes to a network, or anything in between has been influenced heavily by the introduction of DevOps circa 2007.

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The Best 39 Development Tools

Codegiant

GitHub GitHub is a project management and a code version control system. Link issues and pull requests to track project updates. No Gantt charts to visualize the project in landscape mode. User Review “ Best and simple project management tool for small size projects.” Less complex pricing structure.