They sit Amazon exams and learn how to assemble infrastructure like expensive Lego. They spend weeks automating simple provisioning tasks. Back in the day, my average project would take weeks to line up a dozen of these people and get them to agree. Add another few weeks to provision, test and hand the infrastructure to developers. That’s three months and $100k spent before you even start delivering anything of business value.
It’s sheer waste, pure and simple.
Automation replac these jobs ten years ago. It’s a bummer that IT miss the memo (or perhaps they simply chose to ignore it).” Key take away points: The traditional IT work is going to be automat and provid by the cloud service provider. In this case Google. With point being the advent of change in who is delivering services.
The cloud architect and administrators
Will be ne less and less. Point being there will be less bodies requir Kent Dorfman: I recently gave a keynote in DC for a technology provider overseas chinese in canada data summit. In my presentation, I us a gif image taken from the movie Animal House where the Delta House members were reviewing the new plges. The picture of Kent Dorfman came up for vote on those recruits that would be plg, and the crowd react with distain and beer can throwing.
I us this as an illustration of what
I think the government may start doing it is a win-win solution for both parties when they get another SI requesting a meeting to discuss that agency or missions “Journey to the Cloud”.Change can be exciting, but also hard to implement. It can be especially difficult to adjust to new initiatives or mandates when your agency’s culture has yet to embrace the idea of change. It’s also important to remember that change isn’t just structural, but emotional too.
At this year’s Next Generation of Government
Training Summit, retir Senior Feral Executive, Carmen Mina spoke about creating an environment that embraces change. Mina has had 32 years of experience in the Intelligence Community and is co-author of Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading rich data Change from Within. As someone who is us to an environment that’s constantly chan. Iging, Mina has learn how to adapt and get others around her on board as well.