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Bringing different technology groups together can result in some interesting challenges. We often feel like we are doing group therapy for a very dysfunctional family, and many of the challenges encountered highlight the biases people often bring into the workplace. Leslie Sachs describes how to identify these behavioral issues and utilize positive psychology to help develop high-performance teams.

Pini Reznik explains how containers can help shorten the software development feedback loop by drastically reducing the overhead involved in deploying new software environments. This leads to faster build and test executions and simplifies the standardization of the development and production environments, allowing for an easier transition to continuous deployment.

Technology-driven companies, regardless of size and scale, are facing the increasing need to ship better code faster while meeting business requirements. This requires collaboration and interaction among the traditional information technology infrastructure library (ITIL), information technology service management (ITSM), and development teams for a truly agile organization to emerge.

DevOps is helping development and operations teams work more effectively together. There are also other essential stakeholders who can benefit from improved communication and collaboration, including information security, QA, and testing teams. As every stakeholder needs to understand his role and assigned tasks, application lifecycle management (ALM) provides the essential best practice that ensures that every team member knows what he needs to accomplish and how to communicate effectively with the other members. This article explains how ALM can be best used to drive DevOps.