{"id":19898,"date":"2016-01-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3618437"},"modified":"2016-01-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T12:00:00","slug":"should-you-fire-all-your-techies-by-theebizwizard-devopssummit-devops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/should-you-fire-all-your-techies-by-theebizwizard-devopssummit-devops\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Fire All Your Techies? By @TheEbizWizard | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently spotted a five-year-old blog post by Mike Gualtieri of Forrester, where he suggests firing your quality assurance (QA) team to improve your quality. He got the idea from a client who actually tried and succeeded with this counterintuitive move.<br \/>\nThe thinking goes that without a QA team to cover for them, developers are more likely to take care of quality properly \u2013 or risk getting the dreaded Sunday morning wakeup call to fix something.<\/p>\n<p>Gualtieri\u2019s post generated modest buzz at the time, but since 2011 the world has changed. DevOps has turned a corner, representing an end-to-end rethink of how organizations handle the entire software development lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p>Now that 2016 has finally arrived, it\u2019s time to take a fresh look at the question. But why stop with QA? Now that we have DevOps \u2013 and digital transformation more broadly \u2013 whom else can we fire?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3618437\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently spotted a five-year-old blog post by Mike Gualtieri of Forrester, where he suggests firing your quality assurance (QA) team to improve your quality. He got the idea from a client who actually tried and succeeded with this counterintuitive move.<br \/>\nThe thinking goes that without a QA team to cover for them, developers are more likely to take care of quality properly &ndash; or risk getting the dreaded Sunday morning wakeup call to fix something.<\/p>\n<p>Gualtieri&rsquo;s post generated modest buzz at the time, but since 2011 the world has changed. DevOps has turned a corner, representing an end-to-end rethink of how organizations handle the entire software development lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p>Now that 2016 has finally arrived, it&rsquo;s time to take a fresh look at the question. But why stop with QA? Now that we have DevOps &ndash; and digital transformation more broadly &ndash; whom else can we fire?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3618437\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19899,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}