brought in such coaches and advisors to teach others and transfer their knowledge.
Center of Excellences, Institutes and Foundations: Vendors and System Integrators (e.g. HCL) have established centers of excellence where knowledge can be shared. This includes the DevOps Institute from a center of excellence or vendors like GitLab. Also, there are foundations such as Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) who are supporting enterprises in their technology and modern operating models now and into the future.
InfoQ: Do you have any predictions for next year's report? What changes do you see within how organizations are implementing DevOps practices?
Oerhlich: I am predicting that the adoption of DevOps across both projects and the enterprise will rise globally. I do think there will be tremendous shifts into the sub categories of DevOps such as ModelOps, DataOps, SRE, Value Stream Management, Chaos Engineering,
and Holacracy, with growth in all of them. Currently, we are seeing more combinations of terms such as BizDevOps and RelOps, just to name a few. We will see which other ones will show up. We are working on our next survey in July which should illustrate these new combinations. We already know that DevOps is seen as valuable within the business community from research done by IDC and HCL. I do think DevOps-plus will become the norm, perhaps not yet in 2022 but soon after. The bottom line is that DevOps journeys are not accidental, and they cannot just be focused on automation. All skill and capability domains such as human, functional, technical, process, and frameworks and automation must be continuously improved. Capability assessments (e.g. such as ADOC) are one way of doing that. These assessments need to be done not just once but frequently so that the team knows what is next.
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where she leads the research and analysis for the Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report and other research projects. Previously, she worked at Forrester Research as research director and principal analyst helping large and small IT organizations with challenges. Prior to Forrester Research, she worked for New Relic and Hewlett-Packard Software.
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Eveline Oehrlich is an industry analyst, author, speaker and business advisor focused on digital transformation. Eveline is the Chief Research Director at DevOps Institute