Emergence of DevOps
Key Concepts
Business Benefits
The CALMS model
Lean and Agile
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What  two word combination describes the word DevOps.

Development and Operations

100

What project management methodology emphasizes a sequential progression through stages like requirements, design, and implementation?

Waterfall methodology

100

This is the name of the group of software development methodologies designed to be more lightweight and flexible than sequential methods.

Agile

200

This is the reason it is considered a disservice to limit DevOps thinking to only those who write or deploy software?

Because DevOps principles should be applied throughout the entire organization for a sustainable business.

200

This mindset is the belief that skills and traits are innate and static, leading individuals to feel they must constantly prove themselves.

Fixed Mindset

200

The Agile Manifesto values working software over detailed [Blank] ------

Documentation

200

This pillar of DevOps refers to the intentional processes and common purpose of individuals working together?

Collaboration

200

In the Agile Manifesto, this is prioritized over 'processes and tools'

Individuals and interactions.

300

This is how the relationship between developers and operations was described in the "Old Way" of culture.

Siloed, with developers "throwing code over the metaphorical wall" to ops.

300

This is the reason why a blame-free view of failure aligns with a growth mindset?

It assumes that both people and organizations are capable of learning, growing, and improving from mistakes

300

This is the typical duration of a Scrum sprint?

Between one week and one month.

300

What software release process involves running new code on a small subset of production systems to observe performance?

Canary process

300

In the Agile Manifesto, this is prioritized over 'following a plan'

Responding to change.

400

This was the result of In Margaret Heffernan's 'super-chicken model', ie, this is what  happened to the productivity of the elite 'superflock'

  • Productivity plummeted because the chickens suppressed each other's success to the point that most were dead.
400

This is the likely outcome for software components designed by two teams that do not communicate well?

The components will likely not work together effectively.

400

In the context of Lean, This is how the term "waste" is defined?

Any part of the system that does not add value.

500

This term describes the predefined development cycles used in the Scrum methodology

Sprints

500

According to Chapter 12, this is how tools interact with "broken" cultures?

Tools do not fix them; they only expose and exacerbate existing negative conditions.

500

This is the manufacturing system where the concept of "Lean" originated

The Toyota Production System (TPS).