Agile in the development team is more or less reality. It seems like everyone is either Agile or planning to move to it (if only in name). But as Jeffery pointed out, faster releases from Dev places more strain on test and ops. That's where the big changes are going to be happening.
Even as that goes on, it will put pressure on other groups. I'm hearing, "How come the app teams are able to build and release so quickly while our business intelligence reports take a long time to migrate?" In response to the need for faster BI migrations, we're starting to add support for applying DevOps to BI tooling in AnthillPro. At the same time, the BI tool vendors are clearly feeling some pressure and adding more automation friendly APIs.
In short: Agile isn't just for application developers anymore.
The cloud is interesting. I think it's mostly finding a role right now around test. How do I let my developers spin up private sand-boxes to test the software? If I have a new code line, how do I spin up the 10 VMs required to really put it through it's functional tests in 15 minutes rather than 15 days?
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