State of Agile 2016Clint EdmonsonPolaris Solutions

Agile 2016 Conference

Attendance• 2300 attendees• Over 50 countries• Role breakdown

• 33% executives & managers• 33% coaches• 33% developers

12 Tracks, over 250 sessionsAgile Bootcamp Enterprise Agile

Audacious Salon Experience Reports

Coaching & Mentoring Government

Collaboration, Culture & Teams Leadership

Development Practices & Craftsmanship

Learning

DevOps Lightning Talks

Agile is Evolving…

• Growing beyond the software industry

• Agile is Mindset movement• Business influencers spreading the word • Agile can be a business tool• Harvard Business Review, Forbes magazine

• Modern Agile movement• Simplifies and generalizes agile for broader audiences• Only 4 guiding principles

• Make people awesome• Make safety a prerequisite• Experiment and learn rapidly• Deliver continuous value

Agile culture change is becoming better understood• Culture is a shared set of beliefs, values, and assumptions

• Shifting culture must happen obliquely

• Learning anxiety must be less than survival anxiety

• Change 2-3 behaviors at a time and you will change beliefs

• Executives and leaders need coaching too!• Selling agile to executives is still hard• Stop using trade lingo• Stop playing games• Stop referencing Dilbert• Leverage case studies, short videos, expert testimonies

Agile at scale in the enterprise is becoming mainstream• Transformation patterns have emerged

• Smart companies are focusing on outcomes over process• Choose agile practices that improve throughput and results• Often requires org restructuring to achieve lean and agile delivery

• Multiple frameworks represented (listed by popularity)• Scrum of Scrums• SAFe• Spotify Tribes• Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)• Disciplined Agile Delivery• Nexus

• PMOs are becoming PfMOs (Portfolio Management Offices)

• Shift from explicit projects to leaner epics as unit of portfolio work and measurement

SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK (SAFe) is thriving!

EvolutionArchitecture Evolution

Architecture Evolution

Are your server PETS or CATTLE?

Streamlining DevOps

• Cattle vs Pets• Containers• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)• Self service app & container fabrics (CaaS)

Docker is a game changer!

From a presentation titled “CERN Data Centre Evolution” that details the scientific organisation's 12,000-odd servers and plans to manage them more efficiently.

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A standard container that is loaded with virtually any goods, and stays sealed until it reaches final delivery.

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An engine that enables any payload to be encapsulated as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container…

Why it works—separation of concerns• Dan the Developer

• Worries about what’s “inside” the container

• His code• His Libraries• His Package Manager• His Apps• His Data

• All Linux servers look the same

• Oscar the Ops Guy• Worries about what’s “outside”

the container• Logging• Remote access• Monitoring• Network config

• All containers start, stop, copy, attach, migrate, etc. the same way

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Containers are isolated,but share OS and, whereappropriate, bins/libraries

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…result is significantly faster deployment, much less overhead, easier migration, faster restart

Ecosystem Support• Operating systems

• Virtually any distribution with a 2.6.32+ kernel• Red Hat/Docker collaboration to make work across RHEL 6.4+, Fedora, and other members of the family (2.6.32 +)• CoreOS—Small core OS purpose built with Docker

• OpenStack• Docker integration into NOVA (& compatibility with Glance, Horizon, etc.) accepted for Havana release

• Private PaaS• OpenShift• Solum (Rackspace, OpenStack) • Other TBA

• Public PaaS• Deis, Voxoz, Cocaine (Yandex), Baidu PaaS

• Public IaaS• Native support in Rackspace, Digital Ocean,+++• AMI (or equivalent) available for AWS & other

• DevOps Tools• Integrations with Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Travis, Salt, Ansible +++

• Orchestration tools• Mesos, Heat, ++• Shipyard & others purpose built for Docker

• Applications• 1000’s of Dockerized applications available at index.docker.io

Microsoft’s container options are growing…

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