My answer is that many agile and devops principles are the same when developing on higher-level SaaS and low-code platforms. Agile teams still need to translate business priorities and end-user needs into reliable and maintainable implementations, and IT teams are still tasked with defining service-level objectives and managing reliability, performance, and security on their deployments.
Applying agile and devops methodologies with SaaS platforms
Many SaaS platforms, including content management systems (CMS), customer relationship management platforms (CRMs), and marketing automation platforms, have advanced options for configuring workflows, experiences, and reports without any coding. Agile methodologies can provide a structured process for prioritizing requirements, testing configuration options, and validating the results with end users.
“Configurable SaaS platforms reduce the time and effort to create and modify custom solutions,” says Jamie Thomas, co-founder and CEO at Cognito Forms. “This allows organizations to be truly agile by quickly building and trying out new processes and automation solutions, iterating on them based on feedback nearly in real-time, and allowing organizations to evolve their processes to meet their changing needs continuously.”