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A Taxonomy on Human Factors that Affect DevOps Adoption

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DevOps is a software development methodology created to reduce or even remove the division between the Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) teams. However, DevOps adoption requires overcoming several impediments, and between them, culture change and human factors have the biggest impact. Therefore, this paper addresses the challenge of DevOps adoption from the perspective of DevOps culture and human factors. A systematic map** study was carried out to create a taxonomy of human factors affecting DevOps adoption. A total of 21 studies were selected and 59 human factors were included in the taxonomy after the extraction and synthesis processes.

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This research is part of the OASSIS-UMU project (PID2021-122554OB-C32), supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund.

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    Juanjo Pérez-Sánchez, Juan Manuel Carrillo de Gea, Joaquín Nicolás Ros & José Luis Fernández Alemán

  2. Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Coliton Road, Edinburgh, EH10 5DB, Scotland, UK

    Saima Rafi

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Pérez-Sánchez, J., Rafi, S., Carrillo de Gea, J.M., Nicolás Ros, J., Fernández Alemán, J.L. (2024). A Taxonomy on Human Factors that Affect DevOps Adoption. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Poniszewska-Marańda, A. (eds) Good Practices and New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 987. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60221-4_31

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