Has DevOps become a synonym for Continuous Improvement? As the breadth of DevOps concerns has spread to seemingly include everything in the IT lifecycle and ever incorporates the rest of the business’ goals and activities how do we define what it is? What are the contributing methodologies that converge and combine to drive DevOps evolution? In this talk, Helen explores the relationships between Agile, Lean, ITSM, Learning, Failing Smart/Safe/Fast, the Theory of Constraints, Shifting Left and Holacracy and whether together they are a superpattern that underpins DevOps.