Aimee Bechtle of Capital One’s Card Technology Advanced Engineering team will share how they have utilized Distributed Dojos to transform to a workforce skilled in DevOpsSec, public cloud and automation. Their Distributed Dojo strategy was formed when they needed to quickly and efficiently meet the challenges of a large cloud migration but were limited by local resources. Reaching out to a prominent retail chain they learned how draw from their engineering talent to form short-term, highly focused delivery teams. These teams now work cohesively across multiple locations to solve the challenges introduced when migrating such a large-scale, complex infrastructure to the cloud. They will explain how within weeks several Dojo teams were formed and releasing automation that not only supported Card Technology’s DevOpsSec and cloud mission, but provided associates with new skills that could be proliferated throughout the company.
2. “What’s in your Wallet?”
@adbechtle
Capital One is a
innovative
technology company
that happens to
manufacture credit
cards
3. Capital One
is in the middle
of a massive
technology
transformation
Open-Source
Micro-services
REST APIs DevOps Culture
Public Cloud
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4. A 2016 Card Technology goal is to
accelerate the technology transformation
Invest in our talent
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Establish Enabling
Organization
Grow resiliently Sustainably well-
managed
Always Secure
5. In 2015 Card Tech Advanced Engineering was established to
support the Capital One and Card Tech Mission
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CTAE
6. Early automation
solves problems
and reveals
new opportunities
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DEV Instance
Utilization
IP Address
Consumption
Resource
Encryption
Best Practices,
Policies &
Procedures
Harness
Tagging
Standards
7. Our backlog was growing and our headcount was not.
We needed to re-think our approach to meet the demand and
continue supporting the Card Tech mission
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8. After visiting Target CTAE
implemented distributed Dojos across our three locations
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Formed Teams Divided Intent Got Volunteers Established
Parallel Cadence
9. We have completed 4, 8-week Program Increments utilizing the
Dojo model and are planning on its indefinite continuation
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10. The CTAE Dojo
model has been
very successful at
upskilling our
associates…
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Programming Languages
Cloud Technologies
Version
Control
Infrastructure
-As-Code
Containerization
12. …And creating more opportunities. The Dojang is a problem-
solving model useful when working in an economy of scale
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ID
Problem
Form a
Team
Design
Target
System
Form
MVP
Intent
Work
Sprints
Release
MVP
Internal
Open
Source
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Iterate
Through
8
The Dojang Process
13. The Dojo and the Dojang are the Yin and Yang of our Card Tech
Transformation
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DOJO
DOJANG
• Korean “place of the way”
• Problem resolution
• Existing skillset
• Ephemeral Operation
• Japanese “place of the way”
• Strategy Fulfillment
• Skills transformation
• Continuous Operation
14. We are
still learning
and we are
leveraging the
lessons learned
from each
Dojo and Dojang
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Learning >=
Delivering
Onboarding
Checklist
Team Building &
Tooling
Dedication
Recognition,
Praise…Support!
~100%
15. The CTAE strategy is effective in supporting our technology
transformation
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Enabling
organization
Skilling
Talent
Automation
Strategy
Dojos &
Dojangs
“The best place to start is to start”
16. At Capital One
we aren’t just
consumers of
open-source
we are also
contributors
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https://developer.capitalone.com/open-source/