Who needs release and devops engineers, and why?

Kerzazi, Noureddine; Adams, Bram

doi:10.1145/2896941.2896957

Cited by 24 publications

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“…The analysis revealed that Python, PHP, PowerShell, JavaScript, Bash and Angular were in high demand (See Appendix 1 for details). Our results confirm scripting related findings by Kerzazi and Adam [8], who also identified scripting tasks to be the most important theme across DevOps roles they evaluated. The commonly cited frameworks of choice for the employers included .NET and Spring however they were specified only in 25 percent of the ads (See Figure 3).…”

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confidence: 90%

“…There is some similarity in research design between our work and that carried out by Kerzazi and Adams' in [8], therefore it is important that we establish a distinction between the two studies. Several differences bring novelty to our work.…”

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…Third and the most important difference is the inclusion of GSE element in our study. Unlike in [8] our analysis is specifically focused on the evolving DevOps roles that infuse into onshore and geographically distributed teams.…”

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, given the country-specific variations of DevOps responsibilities [8], it is important to understand KSCs in a NZ context, as one example of a small advanced economy, to compare it with study results from other analogous countries.…”

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The attributes such as Mentorship (14), Customer Engagement (14), Collaboration (8), Leadership (16) …”

Section: B Absence Of Globalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emerging Trends for Global DevOps: A New Zealand Perspective

Hussain

Clear

MacDonell

2017

2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)

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Abstract-The DevOps phenomenon is gaining popularity through its ability to support continuous value delivery and ready accommodation of change. However, given the relative immaturity and general confusion about DevOps, a common view of expectations from a DevOps role is lacking. Through investigation of online job advertisements, combined with interviews, we identified key Knowledge Areas, Skills and Capabilities for a DevOps role and their relative importance in New Zealand's job market. Our analysis also revealed the global dimensions and the emerging nature of the DevOps role in GSE projects. This research adds a small advanced economy (New Zealand) perspective to the literature on DevOps job advertisements and should be of value to employers, job seekers, researchers as well educators and policy makers.

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confidence: 90%

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 72%

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The attributes such as Mentorship (14), Customer Engagement (14), Collaboration (8), Leadership (16) …”

Section: B Absence Of Globalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emerging Trends for Global DevOps: A New Zealand Perspective

Hussain

Clear

MacDonell

2017

2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)

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Conceptualizing the Transition from Agile to DevOps: A Maturity Model for a Smarter IS Function

Hemon

Lyonnet

Rowe

et al. 2018

Smart Working, Living and Organising

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Agile development approaches have become the norm for almost all software development now. While agile approaches can deliver more frequent releases of working software, it quickly became apparent in many organisations that they were not able to leverage these frequent releases due to the disconnect between the development and operations functions, with the latter typically responsible for releasing software to customers. This resulted in the move towards closer integration of these functions through the DevOps movement. As the trend towards digitalisation continues, companies are increasingly implementing DevOps. We propose a maturity model for this agile to DevOps transition with three levels: agile, continuous integration, continuous delivery. Based on an in-depth case study in an organisation which has several years' experience of DevOps, we identify a fundamental disruption in the soft skills and competences that software teams are expected to possess, and in the patterns of collaboration among teams. The latter is especially salient for release managers, project managers, production engineers and even architects. Arguably, smartness may be characterized as being flexible, teaming up with people who have a different profile, belonging to a different function, and delivering more quickly what had been designed. In light of this, we argue that DevOps leads to greater smartness for the Information Systems (IS) function.

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