My session focused on the stresses and burnout experienced by security teams, including recent data showing that 94% of chief information security officers suffer from work-related stress, and 65% admit their stress levels compromise their ability to do their job.
As technology stacks increase in complexity, DevSecOps teams are required to rapidly learn new skills, increase automation, and take steps to improve the developer experience.
The resulting stress and pressure on team members can lead to burnout, which affects the entire team and the end product.
Supporting new technologies and capabilities such as generative AI can be both a stress reliever and a source of stress for DevSecOps teams.
Here are three more ways DevSecOps teams can meet their core development, security, and operations needs and fulfill their mission while reducing stress.
3 ways DevSecOps teams can reduce stress Foster a generative organizational culture.
Before considering DevSecOps practices and tools, the most direct way teams can reduce stress and alleviate the risk of burnout is by addressing the organization and team culture.
Generative organizational cultures are performance-oriented and highly cooperative, and risks are shared across teams.
Create a safe environment of trust and mutual respect where the team's goals are more important than individual goals.
Help the team realize that devops is never done and requires a continuous improvement cycle where teams are willing to try new ideas.
Other activities to improve the agile development team and devops culture include learning customer needs, focusing on fewer but meaningful KPIs, and brainstorming innovative solutions.
DevSecOps teams can create learning activities beyond skills development and prioritize events that serve more than a social purpose.
Omer Cohen, CISO at Descope, suggests the benefits of collaborative team learning.
Institute a weekly problem-solving session where team members bring solutions, not just problems, and address challenges collectively.
Cultural practices must align with how digital trailblazers lead transformation initiatives and how team leaders collaborate with their teammates.
Instead of micromanaging, software development managers, product owners, and scrum masters can empower agile teams by communicating the product vision, avoiding rigid roadmaps, and following through on retrospectives.
Leaders can measure software development performance by measuring how well teams release reliably, improve customer satisfaction, and improve devops KPIs.
Both leaders stress the importance of communication, which is a key management practice regardless of how teams are organized or which management frameworks are utilized.
Automation, machine learning, and generative AI are possible solutions if the team feels overwhelmed with too much manual work.
Reducing stress can immediately impact DevSecOps teams and organizations by increasing employee happiness and improving productivity.
This Cyber News was published on www.infoworld.com. Publication date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:13:05 +0000