Disciplined DevOps:

Choose Your WoW!

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Scott Ambler
• Helps enterprise-class organizations around the world to improve
their processes and organization structures
• Thought leader of:
– Agile Modeling (AM) method
– Agile Data (AD) method
• Co-creator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework @scottwambler
• Author of 20+ books
• scott [at] scottambler.com
• Advisory Board Member
– SEMAT
– ScaleFree
– Architectural Thinking Framework

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Bringing DevOps into an existing
enterprise is like going for a swim…

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…across the ocean…

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…when you’ve never had
swimming lessons…

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…and management wants you to
conform to existing policies…
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…while your data group
struggles to keep up…

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…and there are some security
threats…
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…and these guys are your
competition.
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What Should
You Do?

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 Step 1:
Understand the Situation

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One View: Continuous Delivery
• Practices:
– Automated regression testing
– Continuous integration (CI)
– Continuous deployment (CD)
– Canary tests
– Split (A/B) tests
• Operations-friendly features:
– Feature toggles
– Feature-level access control
– Built-in monitoring
– Self testing
– Self recovery
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A View Actually Including Operations

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A Better View: Agile Delivery + Operations
• Multi-modal approach to
software development
Continuous
Agile • Operations activities are
Delivery: Agile
also streamlined and
“leaned out”

• Some teams will adopt a

Exploratory Program IT Operations “you build it, you run it”
philosophy, but a common
operational infrastructure
still required

Lean Continuous
Delivery: Lean
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The BizDevOps Vision

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The DevSecOps Vision

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The Database DevOps/DataDevOps Vision

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Explicit Release Management and Support

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Our View: Disciplined DevOps

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Disciplined DevOps: A Definition

Disciplined DevOps is the streamlining of IT

solution development and IT operations
activities, along with supporting enterprise-IT
activities such as Security and Data Management,
to provide more effective outcomes to an
organization

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 Step 2:
Adopt a New Mindset

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The DevOps Mindset
1. Streamline the end-to-end flow
2. Reduce the feedback cycle
3. Flexible people
4. Multidisciplinary “generalizing specialists”
5. Standardized infrastructure
6. Automation and tools
7. Standardized development guidelines
8. You build it, you run it

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Step 3: Adopt a Continuous
Improvement Strategy

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Adopting a Prescriptive Method Helps a Bit

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 Identify a Potential
Improvement

Continuous Experiment with the

Improvement new WoW

Assess Effectiveness

Adopt the new Abandon the new

WoW WoW

Share Learnings
with Others

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Continuous Improvement is Longer Lasting

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 Apply the
Identify a Potential Disciplined Agile (DA)
Guided Improvement toolkit to
identify better options
Continuous Experiment with the
Improvement new WoW

Assess Effectiveness

Adopt the new Abandon the new

WoW WoW

Share Learnings
with Others

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It Works Even Better With Light-Weight Guidance

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You Can Combine Strategies

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Step 4: Choose Your Own
Way of Working (WoW)!

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Choice is Good: Lifecycles

Agile Continuous Exploratory

Delivery: Agile

Lean Continuous Program

Delivery: Lean

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Choice is Good: Process Goals

DAD is Goal-Driven, Not Prescriptive

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Disciplined Agilists Take a Goal-Driven Approach

Decision Option Advantages

Goal * *
Point Default Option Disadvantages
Considerations
Indicates a preference for the
Source options towards the top
Explore the Initial
Evolution strategy
Scope
Size
Structure
Form the
Member skills
Initial Team
Completeness
Longevity Co-located
Address Changing Partially dispersed
Geographic distribution
Stakeholder Needs Distributed subteams
Support the team
Availability Fully dispersed
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Goal: Govern
Delivery
Team

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Goal:
Accelerate
Value
Delivery

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Goal: Develop Initial Test Strategy

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Choice is Good: Process Blades

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Our Focus Here is DevOps – Don’t Forget the Big Picture

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Parting Thoughts

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You can safely go swimming…

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…even when you have a
long distance to go…

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 …if you get some
swimming lessons…

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…and management is helped to
change their ways…
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…and your data group also
learns to swim…

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…and you choose to deal with
security threats…
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…so you can beat these guys...
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 …to become a
DevOps Hero!

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Thank You!
scott [at] scottambler.com
Twitter: @scottwambler

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DevOps Critical Success Factors
1. Build a collaborative and respectful culture
across your entire IT organization

2. Focus on people, but don’t forget process and

tooling

3. Recognize that your organization is unique

and that one strategy does not fit all

4. You deserve to choose your DevOps WoW

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Important Resource
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