Smart-DevOps project addresses the gap between today’s and future’s skills demands of municipal workforce by emphasizing on the exploitation of emerging employment paradigms such as DevOps. DevOps is a contemporary set of principles emerged from the collision of two trends, namely the agile infrastructure and the continuous development/operation of services. DevOps emphasizes on the continuous integration and collaboration between project development (Dev) and operation teams (Ops) with the aim to achieve higher quality with faster turnarounds. The project will address the shortage of digital and transferrable skills of public sector employees working at smart cities and will support them in their professional development.Smart-DevOps project will identify competencies and corresponding job role profiles by resulting into DevOps modular VET curricula based on adult learning outcomes and lifelong training principles. A repository of MOOCs and other digital OERs will be developed to support public workers to acquire a broad set of digital and transversal competences. In addition, the project will design and implement a training course, supported by both e-learning (online platform) and face-to-face training. The project also aims to compose long-term sustainable communities of practice that will ensure the further exploitation of the project's results beyond the project end. Furthermore, the project will adopt EQF, ECVET, EQAVET to improve recognition of the identified qualifications. A mapping task of job role profiles to ESCO-ISCO08 and eCF will be done which will evaluated by NQFs of the project partners’ countries. The project results are expected to benefit smart cities and municipalities which aim to adopt the DevOps culture, principles and practices by introducing DevOps professional profiles. Thus, the project is expected to contribute in raising the quality of e-services offered by smart cities to citizens and enabling them to become truly IT sustainable.
The SmartDevOps project objective is to support professional and personal development of people working in smart cities sector, an industry domain that is growing rapidly. The project aims to the development of new innovative job profiles to support sustainable smart cities growth and to support the development of quality high-tech jobs. Further, the project promotes the development of transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective, through formal or non-formal training.
The SmartDevOps project aimed to address the increasing demand for specialised skills and new job profiles and associated skill needs due to the development of hundreds of smart cities worldwide.In this regard, the SmartDevOps project examined the supply and demand of skills for Smart Cities’ (SC) professionals, identified and documented 3 brand new job-role profiles, namely, Smart City Planner, Smart City IT Head and Smart City Officer. It developed three curricula, 43 training modules, etc.
<< Background >> The SmartDevOps project aimed to address the increasing demand for specialised skills and new job profiles and associated skill needs due to the development of hundreds of smart cities worldwide.In this regard, the SmartDevOps project examined the supply and demand of skills for Smart Cities’ (SC) professionals, identified and documented 3 brand new job-role profiles, namely, Smart City Planner, Smart City IT Head and Smart City Officer. It developed three curricula, 43 training modules, etc. << Objectives >> The SmartDevOps project objective is to support professional and personal development of people working in smart cities sector, an industry domain that is growing rapidly. The project aims to the development of new innovative job profiles to support sustainable smart cities growth and to support the development of quality high-tech jobs. Further, the project promotes the development of transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective, through formal or non-formal training. << Implementation >> The SmartDevOps project implemented an extensive market research on the training needs of the smart cities sector. It identified three innovative occupational profiles and delivered three modular VET curricula, implemented through a MOOC and three specialisation courses including blended learning and work-based learning. << Results >> The project developed- 3 new occupational profiles- 3 new modular curricula- 43 training modules following EQAVET principles. The modules include, digital OER, assessment objects, handbooks, etc. and they are available in five languages (EN, DE, IT, GR, FR)- developed book namely «Smart Cities Body of Knowledge» which is freely available from the project web site https://smartdevops.eu/scbok - a large number of academic papers, reports, videos, etc.