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My journey from Fragile, to Agile and now DevOps
Jason Man – DevOps Practice Lead
Who am I?
• Formed in 2016 by the acquisition of Forest Technologies, an Automation & Transformation consultancy founded in 2003.
• 12+ years focused only Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Digital Transformation.
• Tool agnostic agile methodology for delivering DevOps.
• DevOps solutions delivered successfully globally.
• Customers from startups to global enterprises in all sectors.
About ECS Digital
Our Partners
Digital Transformation
WaterfallAgile
DevOps
Mission Planning System• Highly regulated environments
• Waterfall
• Large Monolithic > Component based
• Clearcase & ClearQuest
• RHEL 5 > 6
• .net / C / C++ / Python
Fragile- Unreliable builds ~45 minutes for a full clean build
- Automated the dependent build steps and pushed to Jenkins
- Long Review spreadsheets
- Build in quality checks into Continuous Integration
- Large changes, 6-9 month releases, customer wanted features faster
- Drive towards an Agile way of working
Fragile > Agile- What is Agile?! – Overnight….we are now doing Agile to become a HPO
- Scrums….just a bit of a daily moan
- Is this just another fad the company is throwing on us
- Only the newest and shiniest part of the business will take this on
Agile- 2 week sprints, too much time spent on the meetings
- Planning and retrospectives are important
- Stories are too big
- Planning Poker, breaking down smaller tasks
- Development funneled to a releasing point
- Release faster….Continuous Delivery
DevOps- DevOps is a means to an end, choose from the toolbox
- What’s right for YOU
- Focus on the People and Process
- Business needs vs. Technical needs
Continuous DeliveryCode
Build
Test
Release
Deploy
Operate
Agile
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Self Service….?
Takeaways- Continuous Improvement, remember lessons learnt
- Understand your business, where you are and identify what you need from the toolbox
- There will be further “norms” … Serverless computing, DevSecOps, Containers
Innovation
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