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What we think about when we think of DevOps

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"People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.”

Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt

DevOps?

Success / Value?

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The McKinsey Organizational Health Index (OHI)Stability and Agility Combined Predict Success

Source: Why Agility Pays? (McKinsey Quarterly Number 2015)

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Seventy percent of agile companies rank in the top quartile of organizational health.

Source: Why Agility Pays? (McKinsey Quarterly Number 2015)

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10 Practices that Differentiate the Agile from the Rest

Source: Why Agility Pays? (McKinsey Quarterly Number 2015)

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“Innovators focus on principles, imitators focus on practices, and idiots focus on tools”

Andrew Clay Shafer

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Continuous Delivery - Principle• Your software is deployable throughout its lifecycle• Your team prioritizes keeping the software deployable over working on new features• Anybody can get fast, automated feedback on the production readiness of their systems any time somebody makes a change to them• You can perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment on demand

Source: Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ContinuousDelivery.html

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Does Culture Matter?

Source: Nicole Forsgren / Jez Humble http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2681909

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CIPD Report Stats• Half Of CEO’s say Talent Acquisition is top priority•More than 75% experienced recruitment difficulties

this year• Employer brand and Organizational Values are Key

Why Culture Matters?

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1. Who owns the culture?2. Everyone has a tool3. Is there an app for that?4. Cloud + Legacy5. Networking (is a drag)6. Marginalized budgets

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Challenge• Highly competitive market demands daily roll outs of new features

of innovation• Existing manual and scripted approaches don’t scale to the number

and complexity of deployments that business growth demands• Highly regulated industry requires complex and time-consuming

compliance reporting.

Action• Understand the business objectives in terms of

growth and agility, the culture of internal resources and non-functional requirements.

• Recommended ARA tool which is proven to scale as customer required.

• Conducted POC integration both Dev tools and ITSM tools with ARA tool. Custom integration development required.

Result• Scalable and auditable deployment processes

that enable 30% YOY business growth.• Over 90% of deployments automated• 60-80 updates deployed daily, architected for

significantly higher.• Deployment scale increased 100% and architected

for significantly higher.• Improvement in raw deployment time.• Full audit trail for compliance reporting.

One of the world's leading online gambling companies

“A scalable & auditable deployment process is key when you execute 50 million bets each day and are experiencing 30% YOY growth.”

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Forest TechnologiesHelping companies worldwide maximise their potential

through the adoption of DevOps and Continuous Delivery

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