Top 10 DevOps Valuesby Murughan

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What is DevOps?DevOps is a cultural and professional movement.

                                                                    Adam Jacob (Founder of Chef)

DevOps Goal is to build a Culture which Increases the flow of work, enable fast feedback and fast forward loops, and Continuous Improvements – Gene Kim

Top 10 DevOps Values.

1. Culture DevOps is a Cultural paradigm shift, it’s a group of people with a common set of values and beliefs. Culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize an institution or organization.

• Empowering team members.• Team members with shared responsibility and everyone is accountable.• Teams are cross-functional.• Shared pain and shared success.• Teamwork is a huge part of the cultural aspect of what it really means to be

doing DevOps.• Autonomous teams.• The culture of learning and sharing.

2. Communication & Collaboration collaboration is critical, right? Constant collaboration and involvement of teams across all aspects from designing through monitoring of the application.

• Making our work visible to everyone who plays role in delivery. Any given point of time team members has up-to-date information about work progress. tools like JIRA or TFS is useful.

• This eliminates surprises, waiting waste and bottlenecks.• Enables quick response and time to market.• Rapid communication & discussion rooms with slack.• Knowledge repository with Wiki and Sharepoint.• Real-time chat with Slack.• Monitoring and alerts for fast feedback.

3. Trust  Trust is a big aspect, you can’t be successful if you can’t trust other parts of an organization. When we’re surrounded by people who believe what we believe, something remarkable happens… trust emerges.

• Team members need to build Trust with IT team themselves and some of the other parts of business.• The trust will make the relationship stronger across an

organization and increases the quality of work.

4. Decreasing silos   Many organizations are Functional Oriented to organize team by their specialties. Departments like Development, QA, Database Developers, Database Administrators, Network Administrators and so forth. We need to change to “Functional Orientation” to eliminate Silos.

• Resolves “Wall of Confusion” between departments.• Decreases lead time.• Creates team members to be generalized than specialized.• Knowledge sharing among departments and everyone is responsible for

delivering.• This eliminates saying of ”well, my part works, but they can’t get in

running”.

5. Fast Feedback loops  Enable constant feedback from right to left at all stages of the value stream, This allows us to detect and remediate problems while they are smaller, cheaper, and easier to fix, avert problems before they cause catastrophe.

6. Systems thinking   Gain a true understanding of the business system that IT operates in. W. Edwards Deming called this ‘appreciation for the system.’. this emphasizes the improvement of the entire system, as opposed to a specific silo of work or department.

7. LEAN    Lean manufacturing sets the standard for discipline, efficiency, and effectiveness of an organization. The Seven Principles of LEAN are

1. Eliminate Waste2. Build Quality In3. Create Knowledge4. Defer Commitment5. Deliver Fast6. Respect People7. Optimize the Whole

8. Automation    Jez Humble says “Computers do repetitive tasks, people solve problems”

• Automate all the repetitive tasks.• Automate everything!

• Release management• Testing• Code review & Code Analysis• Provisioning• Configuration management• Systems integration• Monitoring and control.

• Enable deployment pipeline.• Enable continuous Integration.• Enable continuous Delivery.• Enable continuous Deployment.

9. Measurement     John Willis says - If you can’t measure, you can’t improve. A successful DevOps implementation will measure everything it can as often as it can… performance metrics, process metrics, and even people metrics.

10. Continuous Improvement     Create a culture of Continuous Improvement in everything we doing with respect People, Process, Technology and Management.

• Promote learning culture.• Improvement of daily work.• Sharing new learning to across organization through Brown-

bag sessions, conferences, Sharepoint and Wiki for knowledge repository.• Make all blameless post-mortem reports visible to teams

trying to solve similar problems.

Further Studies/Reference:• DevOps handbook – Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick

Debois, & John Willis• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Conce

pt to Cash – Mary Poppendieck & Tom Poppendieck • Introduction to DevOps: Transforming and Improving Op

erations – John Willis• Continuous Delivery – Jez Humble• DevOps: The Big Picture - Richard Seroter

Thank you