So what are experts forecasting for DevOps this year? Here are three predictions:
Chaos engineering as a control strategy. Yes, you read that right. This crazy “chaos” thing meeting the staid world of governance, risk, and compliance? Yes, because, in fact, that’s what chaos engineering excels at: identifying risk in systems that are too complex to test in other ways feasibly. We’ve been using the concept of “environment” to contain risk, and “testing in production” is one of the worst things a team can be accused of. But what happens when it’s no longer feasible to fully test in pre-production environments? A brave new world awaits.
Business value will overtake velocity as a favored metric. Currently, DevOps teams tend to measure velocity, but business value is a close second. This will change in 2020. The divide between IT and the business is shrinking, and business results will increasingly overrule any proxy metrics. As valuable as velocity may be, it is still just a proxy.
Tools will emerge to help developers keep pace. The new digital operating model has a different approach to staffing. Instead of focusing on skill sets, there’s a growing recognition that team cohesion is an essential quality, and moving people on and off teams should not be done casually. This leads to a renewed emphasis on continuous learning within the context of the team. But learning new development technologies via traditional offline methods is difficult, especially while also trying to perform daily tasks. As companies emphasize continuous team learning (so that teams don’t have to be continuously reorganized), new tools will come to the rescue in 2020 to help developers pull in “just enough” learning while creating software.
Disclaimer- This article was originally published on go.forrester.com
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