DevOps is a collaborative approach that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) with the goal of shortening the system development life cycle and providing continuous delivery with high software quality / continuous improvement.
It focuses on team empowerment, cross-team communication, and technology automation with team integration being the binding principle. The DevOps approach helps organisations to deploy software more frequently, maintain service stability and improve the speed and quality of the delivery whilst fostering a culture of continuous improvement.