Em Campbell-Pretty Partner, Context Matters @PrettyAgile www.prettyagile.com au.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/ em@contextmatters.com.au

The Magic Carpet Ride: A business perspective on DevOps

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Feasibility Business

Requirements Document

Business Case Approval

Requirements Definition Document

System Requirements Specification

Build & Test User

Acceptance Test

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FEBRUARY

MAY

AUGUST

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

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What is the biggest impediment to delivery?

Agile without Technical Practices: Just doesn’t cut it!

Availability of environments

Technical Debt

Access to data

Automated Deployments

Continuous Integration

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Integration & Build Team

Dev Prod ≠

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8 weeks 1 day

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Direct the Rider

FOLLOW THE BRIGHT SPOTS.

SCRIPT THE CRITICAL MOVES.

POINT TO THE DESTINATION.

Motivate the Elephant

FIND THE FEELING.

SHRINK THE CHANGE.

GROW YOUR PEOPLE

Shape the Path

TWEAK THE ENVIRONMENT.

BUILD HABITS.

RALLY THE HERD.

SHRINK THE CHANGE

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CREATING A ONE TEAM CULTURE

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MEET THE TEAM

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Cycle time reduced from 1 year to less than 3 months 95% decrease in defects

Cost to deliver down 70% Happy sponsors (NPS +50) Happy teams (NPS +56)

Frequency of deployment increased from quarterly to weekly

RESULTS

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•  Improving CI/CD infrastructure is an investment and sometimes the business has to foot the bill

•  Treat your CI/CD tools with the same respect you treat production code

•  Business Change Management techniques can help smooth the introduction of Devops practices.

•  Devops is more than just culture, but you still can’t forget about culture.

LESSONS LEARNT

Em Campbell-Pretty Partner, Context Matters @PrettyAgile www.prettyagile.com au.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/ em@contextmatters.com.au

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Check out my blog posts on: •  Launching the Release Train: http://bit.ly/launchingEDWART •  Switch in action: http://bit.ly/EDWSwitch •  Unity Hour: http://bit.ly/UnityHour •  The Haka Challenge: http://bit.ly/EDWHaka •  One Team Culture: http://bit.ly/Teams2Tribes