Rapid Yet Robust Continuous Delivery of Software for Disaster Management Scenarios

There are situations when you need to accelerate the software development lifecycle. When the state of Kerala in India was devastated by severe flooding in 2018, we faced such a situation while we were building applications for managing rescue and relief operations during floods. We present a variant of DevOps called Rapid-DevOps to meet the need for accelerated release cycles while maintaining the required quality and stability. We describe the cost-benefit analysis to justify its use and the factors in our development process that enabled its successful adoption.