Digital Transformation and Agile are an umbrella concepts covering many tools and processes. In this session, we will discuss some of the practical, modern IT tools that enable and implement Agile in the organizations. We will talk about digital transformation in general, cloud concept its benefits and applications, and DevOps methodology as one of the strongest tools enabling Agile. The aim of this workshop will be to demonstrate in simple non-IT, business language the mechanics of each of the above, how do they work hand in hand with Agile, why should you care and how to apply them in your organization.

1. March 11, 2020 - Dubai, UAE
Agile, DevOps, Cloud
Practical tools of Digital Transformation

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PLATINUM PARTNERS
GOLD PARTNER BRONZE PARTNERS

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How do you build a
10 billion USD
app in 1 month?
*https://www.statista.com/topics/2018/whatsapp/

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Who are you anyway?
• 15 years in the industry
• Tech support to Skytech L4 fly and fix to Consulting
• Master’s degree in AI
• Largest Defense, Banking and Oil&Gas corporations’
transformations

5. ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY7 Technology Leaders Working Together

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What do they have in common?

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What do they have in common?
IT transformed from cost generating
to business edge enabling

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What do they have in common?

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Digital transformation

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Success is a company’s ability to see the window
of opportunity and capitalize on it.
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed?language=en

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Agile and time to release
TIME TIME
“Big Bang” “Agile”

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How can you be agile here?

13. Too many silos of information
Too many handoffs
Too many checks and audits
Too much overhead
Too slow
ORGANIZED AROUND
PROCESS & ROLES

14. ORGANIZE AROUND VALUE
APP=

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What is the primary role of IT in an organization?

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What is the primary role of IT in an organization?
Provide services enabling the
business

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IT SERVICES
Service Catalog
EMAIL
File Sharing
Identity
ERP
Intranet
Mobile app 1
Mobile app 2
Web app 1
Hybrid app 1

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Service architecture
Service
LOAD BALANCER
APP1 APP2
DB CLUSTER
DB1 DB2

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Service architecture
ServiceLOAD
BALANCER
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
APP1
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
APP2
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
DB1
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
DB2
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
DB CLUSTER

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE - Ok, our code is ready, let’s get
an approval for deployment to
test
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
- 2 weeks later after all the
approvals
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE - Hmm... works on my machine
- Wait, what did we change?
- Let’s try again
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
- After another 2 weeks of approvals
- Still doesn’t work.... ok, let’s try to fix it
in place
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
- Yay, works!!!!
- Let’s request ops team to deploy it in
production

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Traditional software lifecycle
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
- 3 weeks later, Friday midnight maintenance
window
- Oops.... rollback... hmm, but wait what did we
change on these dev servers??
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM

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Issues
Ops
Team
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
TEST&STAGE
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev
Team
Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM2
Code
app.js.bak
app.js.bak.bak
app.js.bak.bak.latest
app.js.bak.bak.latest.seriously-latest
app.js.bak.bak.latest.seriously-latest.latestest
Classes,
Objects, MVC,
Macros,
Variables,
Conditionals
Installations,
updates,
maintenance,
backups, capacity
planning, networks,
firewalls
Oh, you didn’t
tell us this
feature exists
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM1
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM3

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DevOps lifecycle
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev/Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
CONTAINER SRV
CODE
REPOSITORY SRV
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
DEV SERVERS
DEV SERVERS
DevOps
Team
PLATFORM CODE
APP CODE
TEST CODE
- version control
- automation
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION SRV
CONTAINER SRV

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DevOps lifecycle
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev/Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
REPOSITORY SRV
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION SRV
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
DEV SERVERS
DEV SERVERS
DevOps
Team
PLATFORM CODE
APP CODE
TEST CODE
- version control
- automation
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
CONTAINER SRV
CONTAINER SRV
Hey, new code!
Ok, let me deploy and test
- New feature, fix, major change
- Commit to repository
Test failed

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DevOps lifecycle
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
PRODUCUTION
SERVERS
Dev/Test
Team
DEVELOPER
STATIONS
CODE
REPOSITORY SRV
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION SRV
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
DEV SERVERS
DEV SERVERS
DevOps
Team
PLATFORM CODE
APP CODE
TEST CODE
- version control
- automation
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
CONTAINER SRV
CONTAINER SRV
Hey, new code!
Ok, let me deploy and test
- Roll back last commit, fix,
commit again
Test OK
PLATFORM
CODE
Container
TESTS
New release!
Final review and approval

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What if we just want the code?

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Cloud

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APP
SERVER/VM
OS
CPU/MEM/DISK
PLATFORM
CODE
Cloud services
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
I want 2 CPU, 16GB RAM, Windows 2016
Will install my IIS and deploy my C# code
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
I want a really fast Microsoft SQL server,
don’t care how it works and how its
managed. Will just deploy my SQL code
Container as a Service (CaaS)
I want a strong and managed
Docker server that I will deploy my
containers to.
Function as a Service (PaaS)
I want an artificial intelligence
service that I will send 1000
images to be recognized

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What cloud really is?
- Compute/Storage/Network farm
- Virtualization
- Automation
- Self service
- Standarization
- Scalability
- Pay as you go

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Types of cloud
Private
VMware vRealize
RedHat OpenStack
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Public
Amazon
Azure
GCP

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Let’s combine these two
MVP -> Canary testing -> Feedback ->
Beta -> Feedback -> Release 1.0
- Code
- Cloud platform as a service
- Code repository as a service
- CI/CD automation as a service

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Airbnb MVP under 1 month
Code
repository
CI/CD
Platform Dev
Platform Prod
DevOps eng
Architect
Dev front
Dev back
Code
Consultant

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WhatsApp MVP in under 1 month
DevOps Eng
Architect
Team
Dev Back
Dev Front
PLATFORM DEV
PLATFORM PROD
Code
Repository
CI/CD
Research / Consultant

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Remember about the change

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