More than ever, enterprise organizations must balance risk with the ability to respond rapidly to continually changing market conditions. However, many factors seem to create obstacles for adopting DevOps, including a legacy systems, bureaucracies, command and control culture and so forth. Join this webinar and hear from three highly regarded voices in the enterprise DevOps movement -- renowned author, researcher, speaker and DevOps evangelist, Gene Kim, Capital One Product Manager, Tapabrata (Topo) Pal and VP of DevOps Strategy at XebiaLabs, Andrew Phillips, convene to discuss the processes, people, and technology you need to implement DevOps with Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing and Continuous Delivery. The session will also include key findings from nearly 100 experience reports from large, complex organization who presented their DevOps transformations gathered at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit including Macy’s, Capital One, Disney, Target, GE Capital, Western Union, Nordstrom and many more.

1. Lessons Learned: Scaling
DevOps & CD for the
Enterprise
An Interactive Panel Discussion
January 13th, 2016

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Agenda
▪ Housekeeping
▪ Introduction
▪ Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise – An Interactive Panel
Discussion
▪ Resources
▪ Audience Q&A

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Housekeeping
▪ This webinar is being recorded
▪ Links to the slides and the recording will be made
available after the presentation
▪ You can post questions via the GoToWebinar Control
Panel

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Lessons Learned: Scaling DevOps & CD for the
Enterprise – A Panel Discussion with the Experts
Topo Pal
Andrew Phillips
Gene Kim

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P E O P L E
PROCESS
T E C H N O L O G Y
Benefits to the Business
Scaling DevOps & CD for the Enterprise
Overall Challenges
Building a Business Case/
Organizational Education
Tool
Recommendations
Training
Team & Business
Collaboration

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• What have been some of the top challenges to
implementing DevOps in large, complex
environments? How did you overcome them?
Fear of Failure /
Pessimism
Legacy Processes /
Myths Around Those
Bureaucracy /
Walls of Separation
Between Teams
Cultural
Change
• How to build a culture that values
collaboration, technical excellence?
• How do I accelerate, expand adoption
throughout the organization?
Management
• How to get senior leadership, especially
conservative-types, on board?
Finding
Success
• How do I get started and create my first win,
especially with limited time and resources?
• How do I take learnings like this and introduce them
to my organization?
Measuring
Success
• How should I measure my DevOps improvement
program?
Source: DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015

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• What was your most valuable enterprise DevOps
implementation lesson in 2015?
Funding models for functional orientation
(Disney & Google)
How to create testing cultures in metrics-driven
organizations – especially difficult!
(Google)
The intrinsic value for engineers is so high, they’ll
even willingly deal with lawyers!
(Capital One)

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• What were the biggest new categories,
challenges or surprises of 2015?
Pleasant Surprise: DevOps Now Mainstream
“DevOps” in Job Titles and Team Names
More Focus on Culture Changes

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• What do you see the trends, common goals and
obstacles of 2016 being?
DevOps Will Become a Core Competency of Most Mainstream IT
shops
More Focus on Cloud, Infrastructure as Code and Security
Automation Tools Will Become Even More Important - More In the
Ops Side

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• What does DevOps/CD look like 3 – 5 years from now?
“ By 2016, DevOps will evolve from a
niche strategy employed by large cloud
providers to a mainstream strategy
employed by 25%of Global 2000
organizations. ”
- Gartner: March
2015

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Great Resources for Your Journey!
▪ Get Started with XebiaLabs Today!
www.xebialabs.com
www.xebialabs.com/products
blog.xebialabs.com
@xebialabs
youtube.com/xebialabs
▪ The Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery
http://bit.ly/XLGuide
DevOps Enterprise Forum | The Agile,
Continuous Delivery and DevOps
Transformation Summit
http://devopsenterprise.io/devops-enterprise-forum/

12. Questions?

13. Thank You!