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. -- Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps Cheers, Stephen Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
