Facilitating the Management of Agile and Devops Activities: Implementation of a Data Consolidator

Organizations are confronted with a growing array of methodologies, tools and cloud offerings to address their business needs. On one hand, engineers and operations staff can leverage innovative DevOps oriented approaches for Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, containerization etc. On the other hand, project and operation leads are increasingly relying on agile methodologies to manage software development and release lifecycles. The number of tools available and used to run agile project tasks effectively is increasing and can yield an immense number of unmanageable information views for stakeholders. This paper focuses on the consolidation of these views through an information system built during a case study at South African SME, GZ Consulting Services. By designing an information system which is used as a central portal to aggregate data from internal systems used by the firm, we argue that an organization could better manage its agile and DevOps activities.