In the fast-paced world of technology, understanding how different roles are impacted by new systems and processes is crucial for maximizing efficiency and productivity.
As businesses increasingly turn to innovative platforms like Calibo, it’s important to see how these updates influence teams across the board.
Whether we’re talking platform engineers, data scientists, solution architects, or security pros, we’re diving into how Calibo revamps essential duties, supports key roles, and ensures the business keeps humming along. Let’s dig into these shifts and discover how everyone can tap into the potential of the Calibo platform.
Platform engineering practice
Core functions: Enhanced. The Platform Engineer’s role will shift from building platforms to configuring platforms and related governance templates to enable self-service capabilities within guardrails for product teams. This will let them realize a broader set of capabilities faster and save them time and effort.
Supporting functions: No impact. Platform Engineers will continue to be responsible for supporting, training and championing the adoption of the platform across the enterprise.
Processes: Evolved. The platform team will need to establish the relevant protocols for collaborating with Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Architects, and Product Owners to ensure the configurations and standards implemented align with their preferences and objectives.
Continuous improvement: Evolved. The platform teams will work in collaboration with Calibo to measure results and assess the impact the platform is having on the organization and provide relevant input into the Calibo’s product enhancement and roadmap prioritization process.
Software engineering practice
Core functions: No impact. The software engineering team’s core role of creating, testing and deploying software with their preferred technologies and tools will not change.
Supporting functions: Enhanced. The engineering team’s experience and capabilities are enhanced by eliminating tasks that are not core to their creative work — without compromising quality and security outcomes. This includes the enablement of self-service environment provisioning and deployments, automation of mundane repetitive tasks (CI/CD automation, source-code repo auto-generation), tech stack standardization to reduce cognitive load, source code branch management standardization, and automated security assurance and monitoring to help identify and fix quality issues proactively.
Business continuity: No impact. All the artifacts (deployed software, source code, automated CI/CD, test scripts, requirements, design documents, etc.) created by the product development team and facilitated through the Calibo platform (to accelerate their delivery) are all accessible to the engineering team outside the Calibo platform. There are no dependencies on the platform beyond the creation, testing and deployment of those artifacts so business continuity is not impacted even in the rare event the platform becomes unavailable.
Continuous improvement: Enhanced. Agile metrics and maturity assessment capabilities provide the insights necessary for the engineering teams to continuously improve and measure their development metrics to achieve excellence.
Data engineering practice
Core functions: Evolved. The data engineering team will be required to learn how to create, manage and run data pipelines in Calibo to deliver their data products. Any existing data pipelines created with other tools/platforms will need to be recreated in Calibo.
Professional data team dependency: Enhanced. Calibo’s supports a no-code/low-code data pipeline development capabilities that enables non-expert citizen developers to create data pipelines that are not too complex — freeing up professional expert developers to focus on more complex data projects.
The engineering team’s experience and capabilities are enhanced with Calibo through self-service provisioning capabilities enabled by platform teams.
Business continuity: Evolved. The data pipelines created through the Calibo platform are in proprietary formats and must be maintained and run on the platform. The data pipelines cannot be run in the rare event the platform becomes unavailable.
That said, any databases, data lakes and data warehouses produced by previously run data pipelines will still be available on the platforms that those data products reside, and any software applications dependent on those data repositories will continue to function while the Calibo platform is unavailable.
Continuous improvement: Enhanced. Agile metrics and maturity assessment capabilities provide the insights necessary for the engineering teams to continuously improve and measure their development metrics to achieve excellence.
Data science practice
Core functions: Enhanced. The core function of creating, testing and deploying ML algorithms and running experiments is enhanced through the platform engineering and software engineering capabilities enabled by the Calibo (see above)
Supporting functions: Evolved. The data science team will be required to learn how to create, manage and run analytics data pipelines in Calibo to deliver the analytics data required for their model training and experiments. Any existing data pipelines created with other tools/platforms will need to be recreated in Calibo.
Business continuity: Partially impacted. Any analytics data pipelines created through the Calibo platform are in proprietary formats and must be maintained and run on the platform. The data pipelines cannot be run in the rare event the platform becomes unavailable.
However, the analytics databases produced by previously run data pipelines will still be available on the platform that the analytics database reside, and any ML algorithms created and deployed will continue to function while the Calibo platform is unavailable.
Continuous improvement: Enhanced. Agile metrics and maturity assessment capabilities provide the insights necessary for the engineering teams to continuously improve and measure their development metrics to achieve excellence.
Solutions architecture practice
Core functions: No impact. The core function of creating, publishing and soliciting feedback regarding solution architecture artifacts will not change
Supporting functions: Enhanced. Solutions architecture practices will be enhanced through capabilities to impact the work of development teams on the front-end.
This is achieved through the ability to impact the work done by platform teams to implement and enforce guardrails around specific technology usage as well as environment provisioning and deployment automations. This reduces the effort and time required to review artifacts produced by the dev teams without compromising quality.
Business continuity: Not impacted. All architecture artifacts published through the Calibo platform are accessible outside the Calibo platform even in the rare event the platform becomes unavailable.
Security practices
Core functions: No impact. The core function of creating, publishing and soliciting feedback regarding security architecture and other related artifacts will not change.
Supporting functions: Enhanced. Security will be enhanced through abilities to impact the work done by platform teams to implement and enforce guardrails around specific security practices such as ensuring that CI/CD pipelines always include steps for performing security assessments during each pipeline run — with results of those assessments readily available for review.
Business continuity: Not impacted. All security related artifacts published through the Calibo platform are all accessible outside the Calibo platform even in the rare event the platform becomes unavailable.
Product/release management and business analysis practice
Core functions: Conditional impact. The core function of defining products, product releases and the related business requirements, product/sprint backlogs and related user stories will not change, however if Jira is not being used as the Agile planning tool, then the product owners and business analysts will be required to learn a new requirement management tool and import all their requirements to Jira.
Supporting functions: Enhanced. Product owners and release managers have centralized access to the technical team’s work progress (automatically generated from Jira and displayed in the dashboards). This prevents the need to constantly disrupt the technical teams — enabling them to maintain their focus and deliver faster.
Business continuity: Partially impacted. Business requirements and user stories published in Jira through the Calibo platform are all accessible outside the Calibo platform even in the rare event the platform becomes unavailable. However, the development teams will not be able to access the defined products and features if the platform is unavailable.
How can Calibo help business and IT better collaborate?
With solutions like Calibo’s integrated self-service platform businesses can empower business teams to take an active role and accelerate the transformation process, utilizing tools that streamline and synchronize efforts across departments.
Properly implemented, such platforms support orchestration to multiple integrated technologies across the entire product development lifecycle, including Agile planning, Domain Drive Design (DDD), and product release orchestration capabilities that enhance collaboration.
This collaborative approach bridges the gap between IT and business objectives, leading to transformations that enhance efficiency, drive innovation, and create substantial value.
Calibo’s self-service platform is designed to give development teams the tools they need to independently develop and deploy software seamlessly across various cloud environments. This minimizes dependence on IT operations and reduces manual intervention and deployment complexities.
Our platform further empowers business teams by providing the tools necessary to integrate seamlessly with IT, orchestrating efforts that yield significant productivity gains and cost savings.
The Calibo platform is a game-changer for many aspects of enterprise operations, influencing roles across the technological spectrum. While some functions remain unchanged, the enhancements provided by Calibo’s advanced capabilities significantly streamline processes and improve productivity.
By supporting self-service provisioning, integrating agile metrics for continuous improvement, and ensuring business continuity, Calibo helps teams across platform engineering, software, data practices, and beyond, to refine their approaches and achieve excellence. As organizations navigate these changes, understanding the specific impacts on each role will be key to leveraging Calibo’s full potential.
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