As PSJH drives towards its goal of building a Modern Workplace, we continue to standardize on industry-leading tools that will improve productivity and efficiency. A major focus of this initiative is enhanced collaboration.
Currently, different teams across IS are using multiple applications to perform similar types of work. Some tools are outdated and lack key capabilities, and most do not integrate well with each other. This large set of disparate tools limits the effective management of standard functions like reporting, accessibility, traceability, and project visibility.
Beginning in January, we will transition to Azure DevOps, which enables effective collaboration on IS projects through source control, work tracking, and continuous integration and delivery.
Azure DevOps will provide IS with the following benefits:
- Create a standardized set of tools to improve productivity
- Reduce the number of tools to one or a minimal set of common toolsets
- Allow consistency in staff training, support and adoption
- Use common software development and test management, lab environments, and project management
- Automate technical process and delivery
- Adopt a standardized set of tools to ease administrative tasks, such as upgrades, and support of best practices around a common, smaller set of tools
- Increase deployment speed and reduced costs of building, maintaining, and support of test environments
Examples of IS caregivers who will benefit from Azure DevOps include:
- IS developers, engineers, testers, project management, managers, application and business users.
- Users of Git, GitHub, and TFS.
- Anyone who tracks and stores software and configuration changes.
- Anyone who uses dev, test, staging, and training environments.
More details will be shared next month around our January pilot, followed by training opportunities and a deployment schedule that we’ll be sharing in the first quarter of 2020.
This is an exciting development for IS and we look forward to new ways to simplify our workflows and modernize toolsets with Azure DevOps.