With so many different ways to do the same task, however, it can be easy to develop tool bloat, which causes confusion and inefficiency.

By being selective with tooling, companies can minimize confusion and inefficiency while improving the three most important factors for DevOps.

Tools such as Jira and Trello contribute to your organization’s flow, by making work more visible and managing the size and duration of tasks.

With that in mind, it’s typical for what we would traditionally call the operations team to be the group that drives DevOps.

By staying focused on the principles of flow, feedback, and continual learning and experimentation, you can carefully select the best tools for enabling DevOps in your company.

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