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Software Operability article in DevOpsFriday

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DevOps star Benjamin Wooton (@benjaminwooton) has published the latest installment of his DevOpsFriday newsletter  – Insight from DevOps Thought Leaders – at http://devopsfriday.com/devops120413.pdf, including articles by David Mytton of @serverdensity, Matt Watson of @Stackify, Sandy Walsh (@TheSandyWalsh) and the RethinkDB team (@rethinkdb).

I contributed the following article on software operability and why it is so important for today’s software systems; it takes the form of an interview, with Benjamin Wooton asking the questions.

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Let’s Talk About Operational Features, not Non-Functional Requirements

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Using the term ‘non-functional requirements’ to describe aspects of software systems which are invisible to the end-user but essential for effective service operation is counter-productive; we should instead use ‘operational requirements’ or ‘operational features’, and schedule these for delivery alongside end-user features.

Update: the Experience DevOps workshop series now has sessions on Software Operability – find out more at http://experiencedevops.org/

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