tactics to kickstart your journey toward continuous delivery
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Tactics To Kickstart Your Journey Toward Continuous DeliveryDC Continuous Delivery MeetupAugust 25, 2015
Let’s make this a dialogue.
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My journey.
Wahoowa.
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I used to work here.
Now I work here.
(You may have heard of us.)
DC Software Craftsman User
Group (DCSCUG)
DC Scrum User Group
Alt .NET DC
International Institute of Business
Analysis (IIBA)
User Experience
Professionals Association (UXPA DC)
Tech Talk DC(Polyglots
unite)
Agile Defense Proponents
Team (ADAPT)
DC Continuous Delivery (DCCD)
Agile Leadership Network (ALN-DC)
django-districtDC Business Intelligentsia
(DCBI)DevOpsDC
I used to be this guy.
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Coincidence?
Then I became this guy.
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Coincidence?
Then I read this.
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And this.
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#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps #FTW
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PEOPLE? PROCESS? TECH?
I’M SO EXCITED!
Making life better with IT.
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Change can be beautiful…
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It can feel different, though…
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DevOps is people.
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More tools.
Tactics for change.
Find (or create) your champion.
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Who is a good champion?
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def why_are_we_doing_devopsreturn “devops”
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Understand the “why”.
Wrong.
Link to a business goal.
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It’s good for business.
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30x more frequent deploys.
200x shorter lead times.
60x fewer failed deployments.
168x faster MTTR.
How good? This good.
If you thought it was a fluke...
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2x more likely to exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals.
50% higher market cap growth over three years.
Business relevance.
It’s good for humans, too.
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Make it personal.
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Involve the head and heart.
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Build a coalition of the willing.
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Who has the most pain?
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May not be many to start…
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Take baby steps.
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Small. Focused. Quick.
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Don’t be this guy.
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Communicate3.
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Use data.
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Start here.
Use stories.
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Tactics applied to test automation.
DevOps Enterprise Forum.
Your codebase.
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Painful releases.
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Prolonged outages.
Long release cycles.
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Signoffs.
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Silos.
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Do you have automated testing?
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The situation.
Let’s make one small update. Change that one. What could possibly go wrong?
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Vicious cycle.
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Test automation!
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Virtuous cycle.
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Asking the boss.
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Anticipate objections.
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“Not enough time or money.”
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Thoughts and feels.
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Overcoming objections.
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Create schedule space.
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Work here.
Shorten time to payoff.
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Address value proposition.
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Your gameplan.
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Provide justification.
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And more justification.
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And it’s backed up.
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Metric Before After
Time to produce a viable build or Minimum Viable Build (MVB)
48 hours <30 minutes
Defects exposed to production
49/year 2/year
Time spent on regression 20% of release time (15 days)
5% of release time (4 days)
System Test (API) Coverage %
15% (estimated) 68%
Cycle time to run full test suite
15-20 days 2.5 hours
Feature time % 15% 55%
If you want more justification…
And that’s backed up, too.
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Automated smoke tests.
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Start here.
What to test?
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Test here.
How many tests?
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Automate manual tests.
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Weekend “debt” hackathon.
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Information radiators.
More tactics.
Don’t waste a good crisis.
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If you disagree with me…
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But person != problem.
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Takeaways.
Change is possible.
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And easier with the right tools.
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It might be bumpy.
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And slower than you’d like.
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But it will be worth it.
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fin.
