As a project manager, you have tons of responsibilities: figuring out what the client wants, managing the code building and testing processes, and ensuring the software is successfully deployed and the client is satisfied.

While it may sound simple on paper—it’s not.

In fact, managing a software development project can be quite a daunting task, especially if you’re not automating collaboration, integration, and delivery in your deployment pipeline.

For example, by not taking advantage of automation during the testing phase, you could end up with a final product that’s full of bugs. And the further past the initial unit test phase a bug gets, the harder it is to identify and fix it, costing you time and money, and totally blowing your project’s ROI.

Not to mention that you’re probably managing many projects at a time, not just one. That means to prevent sloppy workflows, buggy products, and growing backlogs, you have to find a way to simplify your deployment pipeline. You need a pipeline that allows for designated stages, a standard order, and automated code testing, so projects can flow seamlessly into production with the click of a button.

Your solution? DevOps.

Continuous delivery with a DevOps pipeline

With any pipeline, your aim should be to release high-quality products to your customers quickly. But is it really possible to get a project deployed by stages when multiple stakeholders are involved?

Totally!

DevOps strives for continuous integration (CI). In the staging environment, when changes are made to the code, they’re automatically merged back to the central main branch and tested to ensure it doesn’t break the build.

Each code that passes the test is then moved to production manually with a click of a button—this process is called continuous delivery (CD).

If you’re building your pipeline from scratch with DevOps best practices in mind, then you’ll not only have to identify the development stages in your project, but how to implement and automate them, too.

Luckily, there are many tools out there to help you. The problem is, once you start incorporating multiple automation tools into your pipeline, it becomes difficult to make sure all of them play nicely together, especially if you have to manually link them to each project. Even if you have a DevOps consultant to help you with all this, you may wonder: are these automation tools the best options to get the job done, or just the ones my consultant prefers?

Eliminate all the uncertainty with Flowt.

Flowt provides the ideal framework

Flowt builds on DevOps, providing a framework that helps you easily manage every stage, test, and tool in your pipeline. It even takes some of the decision-making off your shoulders, automating “the other stuff”—continuous integration, testing, delivery, and collaboration—so your team can focus on coding.

The feature that sets Flowt apart and makes it so user-friendly is its highly visual pipeline. The visual pipeline allows stakeholders that aren’t familiar with code to track the progress of the project and provide feedback without confusing them with technical “mumbo-jumbo”.

With seamless integrations with services like GitHub, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare, and Slack, you won’t have to worry about selecting the right automation tools or making sure they talk to each other correctly.

Flowt hosting and deployment pipeline integrations

For a framework that provides automation where you need it, lets you track progress visually, and helps your team deliver a quality product every single time, there’s only one choice: Flowt.