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DevOps Job Roles: A Multivocal Literature Review

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021 (ICCSA 2021)

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DevOps bridges the gap between software development and operations to provide rapid deliveries and integrated collaboration. However, DevOps entails lots of factors and challenges involved in its implementation including technical, organizational and personnel aspects. Focusing on the last set of aspects, this paper identifies current DevOps job roles, an aspect that is crucial to implement and to support DevOps practices in organizations. It also highlights collaboration between different actors under different automation levels in DevOps to deliver software at high speed.

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  1. Østfold University College, BRA veien. 4, 1757, Halden, Norway

    Muhammad Umar & Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Chiara Garau

  5. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Ivan Blečić

  6. Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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  7. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

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  8. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  9. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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Umar, M., Colomo-Palacios, R. (2021). DevOps Job Roles: A Multivocal Literature Review. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12957. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87013-3_19

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