Slides from a presentation by Przemyslaw (James) Ciesluk, Michelle Shakesheff and Alex Cottrell to the South West branch of IIBA UK on 19 October 2017

1. Rise of DevOps
Should Business Analysts Be Worried?
19 Oct 2017
Przemyslaw (James) Ciesluk
Michelle Shakesheff
Alex Cottrell

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I94-tJlovg
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3. 7%
Don’t know15%
Not Adopting DevOps
78%
Adopting DevOps
DevOps Adoption
Source: RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report

4. 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

5. 5
DevOps mindset
Better Quality Faster time to market
Better Collaboration More focus on improving
the Business

6. The journey of a Business AnalystDELIVERYRISKBAMITIGATION
Unstructured
delivery Waterfall
approach
Iterative
approaches
(RUP)
Agile
approach
DevOps
Lean Start-up
AI
Robotics

7. The journey of a BA - Reality
Waterfall
methodology
Iterative
methodologies Agile approaches
DevOps
AI
Robotics
Other change
approaches

8. Can DevOps and BA Community coexist?
DevOps DevOps
DevOpsBA BA BA

9. Can a BA learn/benefit from DevOps culture?
collaborationquality
innovation
process automation
ever changing world

10. Should Business Analysts be worried?
The future of BA profession is within our hands

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Thanks!
…feel free to contact me…
James.Ciesluk@uk.zurich.com