Microsoft's Principal Cloud Advocate & DevOps Lead Abel Wang and Redgate's Steve Jones cover:
- What is DevOps?
- How to explain the value of DevOps to both leadership and engineers
- Tips for advocating for DevOps as part of your 2020 planning
- How other organizations have had success implementing DevOps
- Lessons learned from Microsoft's DevOps transformation
2. Steve Jones
Advocate, Redgate Software
Editor, SQLServerCentral
28 years SQL Server data experience
DBA, developer, manager, writer, speaker in a variety of companies
and industries
Founder, SQLServerCentral
Currently the editor in chief, with the goal of helping you learn to be a better
data professional every day
11 years Microsoft Data Platform MVP
I have been honored to be recognized by Microsoft for the as a Data
Platform MVP working with SQL Server
@way0utwest/in/way0utwest www.voiceofthedba.comsjones@sqlservercentral.com
3. Abel Wang
Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Microsoft Senior Cloud Developer Advocate specializing
in DevOps and Azure
Member of Donovan Brown’s League of Extraordinary
Cloud DevOps Advocates
Before joining Microsoft, Abel spent seven years as a Process Consultant
and a Certified Scrum Master helping customers globally develop solutions
using agile practices and Team Foundation Server.
When not working, Abel is either writing code (yes, that’s what he does
for fun), playing his guitar or training for The Great Wall Marathon.
@AbelSquidHead/in/abel-wang-9a37694/ http://abelsquidhead.com
4. How would you explain DevOps to
a developer or a DBA?
5. How would you explain DevOps to
the CTO of an organization?
6. What are the biggest lessons
you’ve learned about implementing
DevOps at Microsoft?
7. I’m a developer or DBA who wants
to advocate for DevOps as part of
2020 planning
What will help me be successful?
8. What have you changed your mind
about when it comes to explaining
or implementing DevOps?
13. What changes do you see
transforming DevOps in the
Enterprise over the next 10 years?
Editor's Notes
Title: sDevOps Lessons from the Enterprise
Presenters: Abel Wang and Steve Jones
Abstract draft:
"Today, survival is linked not to size or strength but to the ability to change — to move quickly, adapt, seize opportunities and be agile." --IDC
What is DevOps, and how does it enable you and your organization to adapt? Join Microsoft's Principal Cloud Advocate Abel Wang and Redgate's Steve Jones to learn:
What is DevOps?
How to explain the value of DevOps to both leadership and engineers
Tips for advocating for DevOps as part of your 2020 planning
How other organizations have had success implementing DevOps
Lessons learned from Microsoft’s DevOps transformation
steve
Does one definition work for both these audiences? Or is there value in explaining it differently?
The heart of this question is how to tailor your message to execs vs individual contributors – insights into what the different audiences care about
Steve: Microsoft is more open about getting things done, not just selling products and services.
Two ways
Budgeted: full scale POC on all servers
Non-approved/budgeted: Start to automate sections of what you do manually. String together work and write a case study that shows what you did
Steve: Don't need a complete pipeline
The culture part is really, really hard.
What about DevOps in the cloud, so let's leave this as the software development process rather than an application
Work some things offline.
Follow up: what key practices enable this to happen?
Steve: I'll say that this doesn't always, or won't always work. The problem from my perspective is mgmt. needs to buy in and realize devops isn't' just about pushing more features out each week, but also learning, growing, improving thepipelien, reducing technical debt.
I've seen Abel tweeting recently about being excited about GitHub Actions – potentially a high level overview of that could be valuable—or whatever he is thinking of.