This presentation provides perspectives on how to build a culture suitable for DevOps. What are principals to create an open, transparent culture.

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DEVOPS
Accelerating Development
Improving Product Quality
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Principles
u Increase speed of delivery - reduce time to respond to
customer needs and changes
u Make it bite-size / small increments
u Improve quality - reduce errors by automating
u Eliminate manual steps

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I want to increase the velocity of
feature, customer satisfaction
and improve quality of my
mobile and cloud applications
An environment of rapid development with integrated services for DevOps.

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Definitions
u Development and Operations is one workflow
u Making feedback loops short
u Connecting the developers to the frontline employees and customer
feedback
u Creating transparency throughout the workflow
u Culture of accountability
First step – What does DevOps mean to you?

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You need to dig deep(er) to
understand what it takes to
build a DevOps culture

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One Workflow
u Both teams have a shared sense of responsibilities
u Development and Operations work closely
u Identify operations related issues of scale, performance, and security
during development

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Short Feedback Loop
u Identify problems early in the process – “FAIL FAST”
u Don’t forget to notify development as quickly as possible
u Don’t procrastinate – STOP the attitude of - let others deal with it.
u Make the feedback LOUD – so it’s can’t be ignored

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Transparency
u Connect the developers to the front-line employees
u Encourage developers to engage with customers
u All issues are tracked and reported
u Everyone can see every thing

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Accountability
u The feedback loop must be monitored by everyone
u Team members should be accountable for following through and
addressing the problems or issues

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1 – Click Deploy
“If you don’t know what you are doing, 1-click can hurt you”
Hint: Adult Supervision Required
A Blessing or a Curse? Depends…

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