Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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Alexandria, VA, USA
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B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Organizational structure: if you're an organization that has pretty much wholly outsourced your IT – particularly if your contracts-style is base-year + Option-year 1 + ... + Option-year N chances are, you've been structuring your contracts to be focused on end-of-project-year deliverables. Worse, each option-year may be bid out to a different consulting company. This means that, not only are your contractors focused on delivery-boundaries (rather than continuous mid-term deliverables), the teams on either side of an option-year boundary may be wholly different from each other.
The above is typical of government orgs with their "hard" FY-to-FY funding-models.
Organizational structure: if you're an organization that has pretty much wholly outsourced your IT – particularly if your contracts-style is
base-year + Option-year 1 + ... + Option-year Nchances are, you've been structuring your contracts to be focused on end-of-project-year deliverables. Worse, each option-year may be bid out to a different consulting company. This means that, not only are your contractors focused on delivery-boundaries (rather than continuous mid-term deliverables), the teams on either side of an option-year boundary may be wholly different from each other.The above is typical of government orgs with their "hard" FY-to-FY funding-models.
Yes, organizational structures are the biggest challenges. Also, I heard the DevOps principles are hard to apply in financial and health industries?