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Despite Tech Layoffs, Developer Shortage Continues
Well over one-third (37%) of respondents to a recent industry survey reported that recruiting developers with the needed skills would continue to be a challenge through 2023. More than 2,000 developers and IT professionals participated in the Infragistics survey from December 2022 to January 2023. The survey also found developers and IT professionals are just […]
Mar 2, 2023 · 3 minAll articles by George V. Hulme
Showing 1–24One-Third of Developers Seeking New Job
With the relentless pace of enterprise digital transformation efforts, even in this softening economy, developers still face an enviable job market. The number of open job positions in computer occupations is greater than 804,000, according to National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis and, at 326,000 vacancies, software developers have by far the largest number […]
Despite Democratization, IT Department More Central Than Ever
There’s been talk of the decentralization of IT within organizations for years, and events of recent years have certainly accelerated this trend. Yet, IT has never been more important to the success of the organization. According to ManageEngine’s newly released IT at Work: 2022 and Beyond study, an increasing number of IT-related decisions are being […]
GitLab Gets an Overhaul
GitLab launched its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, which the company said pulls together new DevOps and data science capabilities into the platform. With GitLab 15, GitLab says it provides (or soon will provide) continuous security and compliance, enterprise Agile planning, visibility and observability, workflow automation and increased […]
IT Spending to Reach $4.4 Trillion in 2022
For those who doubted the digital transformation trend, it’s become clear that it’s not a marketing fad or a buzzword but is now standard operating protocol for businesses. A forecast released this week from market research firm Gartner confirms this, as the projected increase in application software, infrastructure software and managed services spending highlights that […]
Successful Digital Transformation: It’s About Strategy
While having a mature digital enterprise helped organizations to better survive – and even thrive, in some cases – the pandemic, that’s not the primary reason why organizations will continue to invest in their digital transformation efforts. According to new research from consultancy Deloitte, businesses will continue to invest in their digital transformation capabilities to […]
Manufacturing Workers Eager to Digitally Upskill
Anyone who has worked in machining within the past 70 years knew that the future of machining was automation. In the 1940s, computer pioneer John T. Parsons and engineer Frank L. Stulen invented, via a contract with the U.S. Air Force, numerical control milling machines. The machines were designed to help the Air Force produce […]
DevOps Jobs Remain in High Demand, Survey Shows
There’s good news for those interested in a career in DevOps or development — there are plenty of opportunities. And there’s even room for those with unconventional backgrounds, according to a newly released report from CodinGame. The CodinGame Developer Survey 2021, which is based on responses from 15,000 international developers and HR professionals, found that […]
AIOps Builds Organizational Efficiency, Survey Finds
Enterprises entered 2020 with big plans. Post-pandemic, AIOps could help them achieve those goals, according to a new research survey from Digitate and CorporateLeader. Enterprises entered 2020 with the best-laid plans; many had efforts lined up to expand their use of cloud services and continue their steady efforts to digitally transform their businesses. Then the […]
Plutora’s Bob Davis: Work From Home and Value Stream Management
American writer Orison Swett Marden said, “Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” After the year that’s passed, with operations and development teams forced to scatter and work remotely, it’s a sentiment DevOps teams […]
COVID-19 Long Tail Budget Impact
Technology budgets have shifted dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study from online CIO networking and information hub, Pulse. The pandemic, and its resulting shutdown, will likely continue to have a substantial impact on technology budgets for some time. The initial budgetary impact was substantial. When COVID-19 first arrived, […]
Need for Increased Training — Strained Budgets Strain Enterprise IT Teams
As enterprises have increasingly embraced cloud, hybrid IT environments and DevOps methodologies, many of the old siloes associated with IT departments have crumbled—while demand for training and skills that reflect new technology requirements have risen considerably. This new reality was reflected in the findings of a new survey from IT management software provider SolarWinds, and […]
Coronavirus Economic Shutdown: Analysts Hit the Brakes on Global IT Spending Estimates
By most accounts, 2020 was set to be a pretty good year for U.S. gross domestic product and enterprise IT budgets. That was before the novel coronavirus, and the subsequent economic shutdown that is designed to blunt its spread and avoid overwhelming the nation’s health system. Analysts are now slashing their economic growth rates and […]
Digital Transformation Drives C-Suite Discord
In the sport of rowing, each crew member has to row in synchrony or the boat risks undesired turns and even potential tipping. It takes practice, communication and discipline for each crew member to raise their oar to the appropriate height and apply the appropriate power. Obviously, those crews who work best together are more […]
Low-Code Providers Continue Enhancing Their Development Platforms
Enterprise low-code development continues to grow in popularity as software vendors continue to unveil tool enhancements designed to help business users and non-developers build functional applications and business processes. The help from low-code platforms (and other platforms that are integrating low-code capabilities) couldn’t come at a better time, as enterprises continue to struggle to digitize […]
The State of Low-Code Development
As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises—but still, only a minority—are turning to low-code development platforms to try to fill the gap. Low-code development platform provider OutSystems released its sixth annual “State of Application Development Report.” The report is based […]
Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind
For many years, enterprises have been in a race to digitally transform how they work through the digitization of all areas of their business, to reduce costs and business frictions through creating efficiencies and delivering increased value to their customers. While many organizations have attempted a transformation, few have been successful. Research from the consultancy […]
Cloud Visibility Remains a Top Challenge for Many Organizations
A number of enterprises have a love/hate relationship with cloud computing. Because of its low upfront costs, the expense for cloud is lower, especially in the early years. But historically there has been another cost: the challenge of obtaining good visibility into applications, users and network traffic. I thought advancements in cloud management and security […]
Meet the Citizen Developer
Much has been written on the rise of citizen developers, but little about who they are and why they choose to do what they do The enterprise is always thirsty for new applications. More than ever, this thirst seems unquenchable. Consider a recent market analysis from Global Market Insights, which expects the enterprise application market […]
For more mobile wins, enterprises must find their MVPs
The demand for enterprise mobile apps just isn’t letting up. The research firm Gartner expects that by the end of 2017 enterprise user thirst for mobile apps will be growing five times more quickly than internal IT organizations can deliver those apps. And a recent Opinion Matters survey found that enterprises are already hitting deep […]
Jeff Sussna on Design Thinking and DevOps
What is Design Thinking, and just as importantly to you – why does it matter to DevOps? For answers to that, we recently turned to Jeff Sussna, founder at Ingineering.IT. Sussna combines engineering expertise with a knack to bridge business, creative, and technical perspectives. Sussna’s focus is on the intersection of development, operations, design, and […]
IBM’s DevOps Journey
Companies that want to better address market demand and more efficiently deliver value through speed, quality, and agility are embracing DevOps. This includes retailers, insurers, defense contractors, and most certainly software makers. Consider the DevOps journey within the IBM Software Group, which is unarguably larger than most enterprise software groups: currently 519 major software product […]
Q and A with Carmen DeArdo: DevOps at Nationwide
Just before the IBM Interconnect show in Las Vegas last week, we had a chance to speak with Nationwide’s Carmen DeArdo and talk about some of the challenges he has faced at Nationwide as DeArdo and his team work to bring DevOps and Agile principles to their delivery value stream. DeArdo is no stranger here […]
Clearing through the app backlog clutter
Development and operations teams today are under more pressure than ever to develop apps the business needs to make its workforce productive, its partners connected to the resources they need, and to deliver the apps to the marketplace that will make it competitive. The number of production hours for development is at a precious premium […]