by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Yet another new occupation comes from yet another bad practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n For the past several years surveying the job market, I kept finding ads for a position called DevOps. Some reading and discussions sort of brought me to an understanding of what that is.<\/p>\n Once again, I learned that I did this new job some 25 years ago. Back then, however, it was known as managing the work<\/em>. It seems that a number of managers managed the work so poorly that someone created an occupation to do this work properly so the managers wouldn’t have to try in vain to do it.<\/p>\n A generation ago I managed the work of two dozen persons who were swirling all day. Some were developers, some were system administrators, while some were users of the computers and software. I recall pacing all day behind the cubicles off all these persons asking some to wait a minute or two while someone else set up the system for them. Then I would ask an administrator to wait a minute or two while a user’s task finished. Then I…eight or ten hours went by quickly.<\/p>\n This managing the work wasn’t easy. I felt unprepared to do this, but I did it, and we all worked together to do our jobs.<\/p>\n What happened? Why did we create an occupation to do the job of the managers?<\/p>\n My guess is that managers didn\u2019t want to manage so we whined enough that senior managers hired someone to do our job for us. Eventually, a new occupation was born. These new DevOps persons do our job for us. If they fail, we can fire them and hire someone else to do our job for us.<\/p>\n Perhaps we could just do our job ourselves no matter the difficulty. Then again, I am somewhat naive about all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Yet another new occupation comes from yet another bad practice. For the past several years surveying the job market, I kept finding ads for a position called DevOps. Some reading and discussions sort of brought me to an understanding of what that is. Once again, I learned that I did this new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,9,67],"tags":[250,132,187],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devops","category-management","category-work","tag-devops","tag-management","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}