Software development, sometimes it is something like  data miming process or studying. Sometimes SD it is more like knowledge transfer.  

just a status update , just for myself

My current work/project is focused on deployment automation in context of software development  processes (CI CD processes). And there is no clear understanding what part of CI CD processes should be automated. There is only two main directions/ideas: 1) deployment automation it is baseline 2) deployment automation without integration with all development processes does not work and does not have value. Why ? Goal is to accelerate software development.  from my point of view such goal definition is very (or maybe even too ) ambitious .
One of the first results is opensourced Behavior Analytic Starter Kit ( recommendation engine on Hadoop Mahout, deployment automation of Hadoop cluster ( HDFS, MapReduce) + e-shop based on Broadleaf framework) https://github.com/griddynamics/Behavior-Analytic-Starter-Kit. Second one is private( at this moment) ATG deployment automation.