Provoked by the need to enable agile deployment of new services while, at the same time, slashing operating expenditure and energy consumption, the trend in telecommunications is to shift functionality from physical appliances to virtualized services.
Subtweeting Obama-era programs like DIUx, the Defense Department's designated agency for interfacing with Silicon Valley, the report demands that federal agencies use startup technology more quickly in the field and pushes for a more agile deployment strategy.
I have worked with companies ranging from super agile continuous deployment shops to heavyweight annual or semi-annual releases following strict waterfall processes.
At the same time, the Marines also are designed to be an agile, "expeditionary" force on call for quick deployment, and thus can go to war with everything needed to carry out the mission — troops, armor, attack jets and supplies.
In the last few years Agile and "Continuous Deployment" has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products.
Particularly, we propose a description-based approach allowing the deployment agile, implementation-independent and high-level network services over a distributed set of resources.
So, this may well be the new thing in terms of agile office-space deployment.
Our exploration efforts yielded the following findings: (i) understanding requirements dependencies is of paramount importance for the successful deployment of agile approaches in large outsourced projects.
The reasons are easy to understand: faster, more agile app development and deployment coupled with a reduced cost structure.
And where it all began was the concept and eventual widespread adoption of agile development and continuous deployment practices.
They state technical barriers, like technological issues within projects, affecting a wider adoption of agile practices like continuous deployment, automated builds and continuous integration.
