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Are Your Projects Failing Unnecessarily?

Managing a project from start to finish can be very challenging. As well as keeping an eye on the over goals, project managers have to race against time, keep everything within budget, ensure all parts fit together, and, perhaps the most challenging aspect, manage people. Project management requires a wide range of skills, and quite often, companies outsource project management to expert consulting agencies to ensure a project is successful.

Because of this drive for results, project managers can have a limited way of thinking. They often have a set of processes that have delivered results in the past on a different project with another team. Using traditional techniques can often lead to project failure. Just because something worked once doesn't mean it will work again. Just because something worked with one team doesn't mean it will work with this team. Projects are therefore driven and pushed by a set of processes rather than a project-specific framework.

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Should You Use GitOps?

The last decade of programming has seen a number of revolutionary transformations. One has arisen from a monolithic application to a cloud-based microservices running in containers. Another one has come from a set of practices around the DevOps methodology to align development and operation teams into a shared work process. And it’s not finished, introduced in 2017 by Weaveworks, the GitOps methodology is becoming the new standard to move faster in production in a reliable/secure way while continuing to bring teams to work closer.

What Is GitOps?

GitOps is another methodology of work that aims to optimize the time/effort between the developers and the operation team members. The main component of the GitOps methodology is obviously Git, a versioning source control tool acting as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and application configurations.

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Where Can We Actually Use DevSecOps?

DevOps is widely adopted as it has shortened the software and application development life cycle by combining IT operations and software development. With DevOps incorporated in many organizations, they are releasing software, features, and updates faster than ever and with greater changes. This means that there are serious challenges in applying and scaling security testing in these processes without drastically slowing down the time taken for such releases.

Hence, security in DevOps has not been embraced as effectively as DevOps itself. Introducing security checks early on in the development process is crucial for effective security. Although many businesses agree that introducing security early in the development life cycle is important, few actually do so. In spite of the risk of missing security threats early on and the headache of rework by adding security to the app development process too late, many businesses continue to incorporate security far too late in the development cycle.