[LINK] ICT Job Profiles

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Tom writes,

> As an addition to its annual employment survey, last year the ACS asked 
> respondents to select up to skills they use in their work section. The 
> skills definitions they were provided with are from the Skills Framework 
> for the Information Age (SFIA). The results were distilled down to 25 
> ICT job descriptions, at five of SFIA's levels ..


And regarding organizing these ICT professionals into business frameworks
it now seems that building "DevOps" teams is the most efficient structure.

Eg <http://www.citeworld.com/development/22852/what-is-devops> Jan 13 2014

Behind every social, mobile, cloud-native application is an IT 
infrastructure -- server racks, virtual machines, load balancers and all. 
Traditionally, the developer builds the application, while a dedicated 
operations team handles the rest. That separation of responsibility worked 
fine when pushing new code to an application was a matter of weeks or 
months. But in the era of app stores and software-as-a-service, that cycle 
has shortened to minutes or days, and the gap between developer and 
operations has become a major stumbling block. 

In search of a better way to hit that goal of higher agility, businesses 
have turned to DevOps -- a variety of techniques, tools, and methodologies 
employed in service of the philosophy that developers and operations should 
work together, not be split apart, in order to hit higher speeds and take 
advantage of larger and larger scale infrastructures. And it's clearly 
caught on, as the DevOps movement (and make no mistake, it's a movement) 
sees huge interest from enterprises, venture capitalists, and developers.


Also: 
<http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/535908/devops_become_key_part_business_ca
_technologies>


"DevOps to become key part of business"  (By: Chris Player, Jan 15 2014)

A recent study commissioned by CA Technologies has shown 57 per cent of 
respondents from Australia are already adopting, or plan to adopt, DevOps 
strategies to improve efficiency and profitability.

DevOps is a methodology that helps foster collaboration between the teams 
that create and test applications (Dev) with those that maintain them in 
production environments (Ops).

The report, "What Smart Businesses Know About DevOps" was conducted by 
Vanson Bourne, and surveyed 1300 respondents that the company describes as 
senior IT decision-makers in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, 
public sector and telecommunications.

The survey was conducted in 21 countries around the world in May through 
July 2013, it included 450 in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) and 75 in 
Australia.

The report states that Australian companies that adopted the approach have 
increased the number of customers using their services by 30 per cent and 
reduced the cost of development and operations by 19 per cent.

Respondents from the APJ region who implemented DevOps reported a 23 per 
cent increase in revenue and a 26 per cent increase in the number of 
software and services explored and developed.

The report indicates that both the business and IT departments of 
Australian organisations are equally focused on DevOps, 45 per cent will 
measure success by looking primarily at external business factors, like 
increased revenue, faster product rollout and improved position in the 
market. Another 47 per cent will measure success by looking primarily at 
internal factors, such as lower costs, fewer bugs and improved 
efficiencies.

In order to implement the new DevOps focus, 59 per cent of Australian 
respondents intend to hire new employees with appropriate skills, 73 per 
cent plan to invest in more training for development and operations 
personnel, and 69 per cent plan to invest in new tools.
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Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps

Cheers,
Stephen

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