Rise of DevOpsShould Business Analysts Be Worried?

19 Oct 2017Przemyslaw (James) CieslukMichelle ShakesheffAlex Cottrell

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7%

Don’t know15%

Not Adopting DevOps

78%

Adopting DevOps

DevOps Adoption

Source: RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report

The rise of DevOps Engineer

Expertise in

“soft skills”

Source: IT Jobs Watch

Comfortable in the role of client consultant

Able to interact effectively and build

positive business relationships

Interpersonal communication

Active listening

Negotiation

Conflict Resolution

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DevOps mindset

Better Quality Faster time to market

Better Collaboration More focus on improving the Business

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The journey of a BA - Reality

Waterfall

methodology

Iterative

methodologies Agile approaches

DevOps

AI

Robotics

Other change

approaches

Can DevOps and BA Community coexist?

DevOps DevOpsDevOpsBA BA BA

Can a BA learn/benefit from DevOps culture?

collaborationquality

innovation

process automationever changing world

Should Business Analysts be worried?

The future of BA profession is within our hands

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