The DevOps Institute recently released their latest report entitled “Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report”. The report found that automation and security remain vital to business success. By Matt Campbel and Eveline Oerhlich.
Source @DevOpsInstitute: https://www.infoq.com/articles/oerhlich-devops-culture/
This article which captures Q&A session with Eveline Oerhlich focuses on:
- Demand for SRE and DevOps roles remains high as companies scale to meet new business demands
- A successful adoption of DevOps requires a strong learning culture. The best learning cultures focus on nurturing new and expansive ideas coupled with strong feedback and feedforward loops
- Security continues to shift left by being baked in earlier with stronger adoption of identity as code, privacy as code, and policy as code approaches
- Successful implementation of organizational topologies and value stream management helps drive a strong DevOps transformation
These challenges include an inability to secure and develop the right talent, an aversion to risk-taking and idea generation, and a fixation on past failures. The report highlighted the human skills to focus on to prepare existing staff for a successful DevOps transformation. Good read!
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