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      Agile & DevOps

      Agile & DevOps together for continuous improvement and higher quality

      While Agile and DevOps focus on different aspects of the software lifecycle, they create a continuous workflow from development to production, delivering faster and maintaining higher quality over time. catworkx, in turn, can help you bridge the gap between Agile development and DevOps automation using Atlassian tools to get the most out of both practices.

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      catworkx Insights from Anaheim: Atlassian Ecosystem Updates

      Atlassian Team ’25 was more than just a product showcase—it was a statement about the future of teamwork, AI, and the ecosystem that surrounds it. From new cloud hosting options and smarter service tools to a fully reimagined Rovo experience, the event ...
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      Agile + DevOps with catworkx

       

      Agile improves the development cycle by making it flexible and user-focused, while DevOps ensures smooth deployment and operations through automation. Despite the obvious differences in the methodologies, they are united by common goals — to create a seamless workflow and increase productivity.

      So why struggle with choosing between Agile and DevOps if there's an option to combine them and leverage the best practices? 

       

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      Improved quality

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      Accelerated delivery

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      Reduced bottlenecks

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      Guaranteed reliability

      Miruna Schmidt
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      Atlassian links development, IT operations, and agile teams through an open toolchain that integrates Atlassian products and third-party tools. Together, these offer a holistic approach to modern software development and operations that can be easily adopted by any organization.

      Deliver faster, collaborate better, and work smarter

      There's no sense in separating DevOps and Agile, as both practices complement each other, enhancing product quality and the software development life cycle. Focus better on your teams' unique needs and the organization's strategic goals, and catworkx experts will take care of customized solutions that work best for you.

       

      Best starting point for your Agile growth

      Agile Assessments to Ensure Continuous Improvement Based on Team Data

      Start your journey with catworkx Agile Assessments, which give you a holistic view of how well your teams are implementing agile practices and help you identify areas of inefficiency and points for improvement. 

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      Kickstart your development and deployments

      DevOps With catworkx: From Setting Expectations to Scaling

      Elevate your development and deployment processes with catworkx's DevOps solutions, leveraging Atlassian tools to enhance collaboration, automate workflows, and ensure software quality.

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      Optimize workflows, increase collaboration, and deliver quality

      Scrum & Kanban: Agile Frameworks to Help Your Teams Work Smarter

      Discover how Scrum and Kanban enhance team productivity and project management using Atlassian tools. Optimize workflows and achieve successful outcomes with Agile methodologies.

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      Creating a shared understanding among teams

      Requirements: Where Deliverables Meet Expectations

      Discover how agile requirements management fosters collaboration across teams, enhances product development, and drives efficient decision-making with tools like Confluence and Jira.

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      Agile Software Development With Atlassian Tools

      Enhance your software development with agile practices, Bitbucket, and Jira Software to boost collaboration, streamline workflows, and improve product quality.

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      Enhanced quality management directly in Jira

      Test Management That Contributes to a Culture of Quality

      Deliver quality code by integrating testing tools directly into your Jira Software. Whether you're tracking the progress of a new feature or testing the user experience across multiple operating systems, there are many options for testing tools for JIRA that meet the unique testing requirements of each team.

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      Streamline your documentation and collaboration with Confluence, enhancing team productivity through real-time updates and a single source of truth for all your projects.

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      All Agile + DevOps solutions by catworkx:

       

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      Requirements Management

      Requirements Agile requirements are a product owner's best friend. Product owners who don't use agile requirements get caught up with spec'ing out every detail to deliver the right software (then cross their fingers hoping they've spec'ed out the ...
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      Agile Development

      Nobody wants to ship software with lots of bugs, performance issues, and low customer satisfaction. Continuous integration and code reviews help prevent this...
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      Test Management

      Bringing testing capabilities within JIRA helps tightly integrate product management, development, and testing to streamline efficiency and productivity.
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      Technical Documentation

      With all the good intentions to drive the digitization and modernization in the company, two things always remain: the e-mail and the documents. It is therefore important to redefine the role of both forms of documentation and to integrate them into ...
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      Scaled Agile

      Maximizing Efficiency and Driving Results with the Customizable and Scalable Framework
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      Agile Transformation

      Through Agile Transformation, unlock your full potential and achieve a competitive advantage in today's fast-paced business environment.
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      Data security

      Effective data security is critical for organizations of all sizes and industries. A solid foundation for data security can be established by focusing on Permission Schemes, Risk Matrix and Access Control. These factors ensure that only authorized ...
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      Scrum and Kanban

      Discover the power of Scrum and Kanban in the Atlassian ecosystem. Optimize workflows and collaboration across industries with Atlassian's suite of powerful Agile tools like Jira Software and Trello. Learn how these methodologies, when implemented ...
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      SAFe and LeSS

      Scale Agile practices seamlessly with SAFe and LeSS in the Atlassian environment. Overcome challenges and drive continuous delivery. Explore how Jira Align and Confluence complement SAFe and LeSS, empowering large organizations to align, plan, and ...
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      Agile Foundation Assessment

      Designed to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of teams within an organization.
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      Scrum Team Assessment

      Let's assess your current Scrum practices and areas of inefficiency to find improvement points. This way, we can help you enhance your team(s) collaboration and communication, speed up delivery, improve quality, and become more adaptable to change.
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      Kanban Team Assessment

      Designed to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Kanban teams within your organization.

      DevOps

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      Agile Development

      Nobody wants to ship software with lots of bugs, performance issues, and low customer satisfaction. Continuous integration and code reviews help prevent this...
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      Test Management

      Bringing testing capabilities within JIRA helps tightly integrate product management, development, and testing to streamline efficiency and productivity.
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      DevOps

      DevOps is a set of practices that works to automate and integrate your processes between software development and IT teams, so they can build, test, and release software faster and more reliably.
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      SAFe and LeSS

      Scale Agile practices seamlessly with SAFe and LeSS in the Atlassian environment. Overcome challenges and drive continuous delivery. Explore how Jira Align and Confluence complement SAFe and LeSS, empowering large organizations to align, plan, and ...

      Software helping leverage the combined power

      of Agile & DevOps:

       

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      Jira Software

      Jira Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software.
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      Jira Align

      Unlock the agility of your large enterprise: Jira Align connects your business strategy with technical execution.
      Jira Align
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      Confluence

      Achieve more together: Confluence is the remote workspace for your team, where knowledge and collaboration meet. Confluence is team collaboration software that changes how modern teams work
      Confluence
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      Bitbucket

      Code and CI/CD optimized for teams using Jira - With best-in-class Jira integration and built-in CI/CD, Bitbucket Cloud is the native Git tool in Atlassian's Open DevOps solution. Join millions of ...
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      Bamboo

      Build, test and deploy with confidence: Bamboo Data Center is a Continuous Delivery pipeline that provides stability, reliability and scalability to teams of any size.
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      Opsgenie

      On-call and alert management for uninterrupted services: Centralize alerts and notify the right users at the right time
      Opsgenie

      Agile vs DevOps: What's the difference?

      Widely distributed in the early 2000s, Agile transformed software development but overlooked operations teams. This led to the creation of DevOps, which aligns development and operations. 

       

      What is Agile?

      Agile is a software development methodology that emphasizes iterative development, collaboration, flexibility, and customer feedback. It breaks projects into small, manageable increments (called sprints) and relies on continuous feedback to improve the final product.

       

      Focus:

      Software development process

      Scope:

      Managing projects & workflows

      Principle:

      Iterative development & feedback

      Speed:

      Rapid iterations (Sprints)

      Target user group:

      Developers, testers, and business teams

      What is DevOps?

      DevOps is a culture, practice, and set of tools aimed to enhance collaboration between development and IT operations through automation and CI/CD, ensuring quicker and more reliable software releases. DevOps bridges the gap between development and operations teams to enhance efficiency, reliability, and security.

       

      Focus:

      Development + IT operations

      Scope:

      Automating software delivery

      Principle:

      CI/CD, automation, and monitoring

      Speed:

      Continuous delivery & deployment

      Target user group:

      Developers + IT operations + security teams

       

      But if we make Agile and DevOps work together?

      Since Agile and DevOps focus on different aspects of the software lifecycle, combining them creates a seamless workflow from development to production. Agile methodologies ensure flexible and iterative development, while DevOps enables automation, continuous delivery, and system reliability. Atlassian tools are essential in closing this gap by offering an integrated platform for project management, source code collaboration, CI/CD automation, and incident response.

      check-circle Agile Development with Jira Software

      Jira Software is a powerful tool for managing Agile projects using Scrum and Kanban boards. Teams break down work into user stories, epics, and sprints, ensuring an iterative and incremental approach to software development. With built-in roadmaps and reporting features, Jira keeps teams aligned on project goals while providing visibility into progress and potential bottlenecks.

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      Bitbucket enables seamless collaboration among developers. It supports pull requests, branching strategies, and code reviews, allowing teams to manage their source code efficiently. Bitbucket’s tight integration with Jira Software ensures that code commits are linked to user stories, improving traceability and alignment between development and project goals.

      check-circle Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) with Bitbucket Pipelines or Bamboo

      To streamline software delivery, teams use Bitbucket Pipelines (cloud-based) or Bamboo (self-hosted) to automate builds, testing, and deployments. CI/CD ensures that every change in code is validated through automated tests before being deployed, reducing manual errors and improving software quality.

      check-circle Monitoring & Incident Management with Opsgenie & Jira Service Management

      Beyond development and deployment, monitoring and incident response are critical for maintaining application stability. Opsgenie provides real-time alerts for system failures or security incidents, ensuring that DevOps teams can respond quickly. Meanwhile, Jira Service Management (JSM) connects DevOps and ITSM teams, allowing for faster resolution of incidents and service requests.

      Additionally, Confluence serves as a knowledge base for analyzing results, documentation, and operational runbooks, improving overall learning and process refinement.

       

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      Atlassian Enterprise Platinum Solution Partner

      Solution Partners provide the services, implementation, consulting, and unique solutions that help our users create what's next.

      Our experts hold the following certificates and accolades: 

      atlassian certified expert ITIL Foundation (2) SCRUM PSPO Scrum PSM SAFE 5 SPC PRINCE2-Foundation-Digital-Badge-1 AWS DevOps AWS Cloud Practicioner
      I can help you implement and optimize Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian tools to streamline project management, collaboration, and delivery.
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      Atlassian Expert
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      Would you like to know more about version control, agile software development or documentation?

      Agile & DevOps Whitepapers and Webinars:

      Discover the economic impact of using Atlassian Open DevOps

      Teams using Atlassian Open DevOps can connect diverse toolsets — even those with tools from third-parties — into unified pipelines and automated workflows. Join us in this webinar with guest Forrester Consulting to review their Total Economic Impact ...
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      Cross-team agility and collaboration at Lumen with Jira

      Maintaining a competitive edge in any industry today requires agility and alignment across the entire organization. Join this webinar to learn how Lumen’s software development and business teams move fast while staying connected with Jira.
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      Building great developer experiences: Сulture & tools

      Happier developer teams almost always mean more effective teams that deliver more value to customers. Hear from Atlassian’s Head of Engineering, Daniel Tao and developer evangelist, Sven Peters, on how to build a great developer experience through ...
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      Maximize Developer Experience with Atlassian

      Software development has become more complex over the years: running a distributed architecture, ensuring observability, discussing user experience, and keeping a healthy balance between dev speed and code quality isn’t easy. And it’s certainly not as ...
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      Compare Bitbucket Cloud and Data Center | Atlassian Whitepaper

      Bitbucket Cloud offers integrated DevOps with Jira, built-in CI/CD, and security features like Snyk for vulnerability scanning. It supports code quality enforcement with merge checks and provides enterprise-grade compliance (SOC 2, ISO, PCI DSS, GDPR). ...
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      Forrester: Atlassian Is One of 2 Top IT Management Software Vendors

      Discover why Atlassian is one of the top vendors dominating the IT management software market. With a proven track record, Atlassian offers a comprehensive suite of tools like Jira and Confluence to streamline project tracking, service management, and ...
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      Having spent over eight years orchestrating the midfield in football, it's fascinating to draw ...
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      As a trainer, I often experience how intensive and energy-sapping workshops can be. But recently I ...
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      Greetings, Jira Align enthusiasts! Embarking on a road trip from Los Angeles to New York without ...
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      Pitfalls in a SAFe® Transformation- How Jira Align helps avoiding them

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