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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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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Me.

Jeff Gallimorejeff.gallimore@excella.com@jgallimorehttp://itsanicelife.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jgallimore

fin.

Me.

Jeff Gallimorejeff.gallimore@excella.com@jgallimorehttp://itsanicelife.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jgallimore