The Role of a UI/UX Designer in Every Stage of the Development Lifecycle #

A DevOps engineer introduces processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle, from coding and deployment, to maintenance and updates.

1. Research and Analysis #

Activities:

• Architecture design: research existing solutions
• Finance costs: understand the cost from the high-level perspective

Integration:

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define devops goals and requirements.
• Propose couple high level solutions with architecture design and financial costs

2. Planning #

Activities:

• Research: research existsing solutions and verify pros and cons
• High level testing: make sure solution will work in our case

Integration:

• Loading bottleneck, make sure we have enough resources to handle loading
• Engineering bottleneck, if we introduce any new tools or services make sure we have enough engineers-resources to work with it effectively
• Verify if we need to use any new tools or methodologies, map out the steps a user takes to complete tasks within the product.
• Obsorve risks, will it break anything?

3. Design #

Activities:

• Verify high-level solutions
• Create working prototype
• Implement integration plan
• Implement deployment plan

Integration:

• Test one of the solution and develop prototype
• Collaborate with developers to ensure that prototype is viable

4. Development #

Activities:

• Implement production ready solution
• Create usage documentation: explain pipelines and working guidelines
• Explain nuances: highlight any tricks or unexpected flows
• Describe technical debt: write down any technical debt that left

Deliverables:

• Solution
• Architecture diagram
• Worflow / usage documentation
• Deployment instructions

Integration:

• Activelly communicate with engineers if needed
• In case if you discover any additional problems or blockers let know as soon as possible

5. Testing and QA #

Activities:

• Solution Testing
• Loading Testing
• Development Experience Testing

Integration:

• Test if your solution works and close shareholders goals
• Verify you have resources for a solution to work in production enviroment during reall loading
• Collaborate with engineers and make sure they can seamlessly use it

6. Deployment #

Activities:

• Synchronize your deployment process with QA and engineers
• Execute deployment script
• Test if existing solution and new solution work as expected

Integration:

• DevOps handles responsability for the deployment process and stability of the whole system
• Make risks assestments, identify protential problems and share it with QA
• Check platform state after script execution
• If needed, DevOps can cancel or postpone deployment

7. Maintenance #

Activities:

• Monitor the production and staging environment for the issues.
• Update devops services and documentation based on feedback and changes.
• Work on technical debt

Integration:

• DevOps handles responsability for the stability of the whole system
• Collaborate with the QA team to address any discovered or closed issues.
• Ensure that any new requirements or changes are tested and integrated smoothly.
• Continuously improve the devops pipelines based on lessons learned.