AgileTour 2016

DevOps Culture

• What Daysha does…• Motivations• Case Studies … start and end points• Challenges• Suggestions

Vision

Increased shareholder value

Business Pressure

Personal Frustration

Career Progression

Earning Power

Innovation

Technological

Capital One- Vision

CEO Richard Fairbank, “the winners in banking must have the capabilities of a world-class software company.”

Standard Bank… Innovation

• The prepaid feature …pilot• 6 month release schedule per country• Business concluded – terminate project• COO takes a punt (on the QT)• Chop Chop pilot project• ….HMRC….

IG…Personal Frustration

• Run the video…Joe Mc Kevitt

Change

Change = Stress

Ostriches

Change Junkies

Naysayers

What you’re facing…

Response to Change

NaysayersOstrichesChange junkies

What you’re facing…

Changing IT People…

How do I get started…

• Research– Meet Ups– Blogs– Community of interest internally… read books…

• Training– Learn Lean IT .. DevOps Foundation– Product specific - technical

• Pilots

What does a good pilot have?

• C suite and budgetary support• Cross functional team• Purpose• New behaviors (culture)

If it goes well

• Good people gravitate to the next pilot• Good people gravitate your organisation• Naysayers depart• Ostriches see the light• Change Junkies keep their ‘told you so’

mouths shut– Actions speak louder than words

Who do you need to be?

• Well thought of by C suite• Neutral• Humble• A good listener• Patient• Informed• Logical thinker• Evidence based decision making

The case studies….

DevOps Report 2015

Capital One Today….

• 100s of code commits per day,• Integration from once a month to every 15

minutes• QA from once per month to 4 times per day• Deployment from manual to completely

automated• Production release from monthly/quarterly to

once per sprint

Standard Bank…Chop Chop… • Time to build the stack: 26 minutes to build for production nodes (2

web servers, 2 app servers, with end to end deployment and testing)• Number of automated tests embedded into Bamboo:• Test Environment – Total 209 Tests

• 31 Infrastructure• 178 Application – already existed before Chop Chop project

• Production Environment – Total 39 Tests

• 31 Infrastructure• 8 Application – written by Chop Chop

IG…personal frustration

• Did they get their weekends back?

Daysha Resources

http://www.dayshaconsulting.com/devops-case-studies/

http://www.dayshaconsulting.com/devops-learning-links/

http://www.dayshaconsulting.com/ecat/training/

AgileTour 2016