Session Title: Learning from our business agility journey

1. Learning from our Business
Agility Journey
[Meetup] Agile Mumbai - "State of Business Agility"
15-Dec-2018

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3. The Continuum Story
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4. Technology Stack & Tools
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USER
EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENT
QUALITY
ASSURANCE
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE DEVOPS MONITORING
GitHub
DEV PROCESS /
COLLABORATION
Agile
Scaled Agile

5. Business Agility
Proactively responding to change while always delivering business value
A prerequisite to being Agile is to keep our customers at the center of our
business
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6. ● From 4 engineers to 150+ working on 2.0
● Nearly a million devices managed by
○ ~20 Microservices hosting ~200 REST endpoints in AWS
○ secure, multi-layered topology, multi-zone, load-balanced topology that is managed
and monitored by
■ a fully automated CI/CD pipeline and deep monitoring of our SaaS ecosystem
○ In January 2019, we will start the production deployment of Dockerized Microservices
in a Kubernetes cluster
● Bringing in multiplicative efficiency gains to our Services organization
by rapidly migrating and automating old Alerts to an AI and stream-
analytics driven Correlation-Alerting-Automation subsystem
● Innovation in Security vertical for greater market penetration
Since Oct-2016
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Adapting to
change
Working
software
Being
Proactive
Self-organized
teams
Product
Roadmap
Predicting
change
Business
process re-
engineering
Across entire
organization
Coevolution
Agile
Software
Development
Shared vision,
systems,
platform
Business
Agility
Our Business Agility Expectations

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Loosely defined roles
But clear
ownership &
accountability
A clear framework
to operate within
No forced process
Going beyond 5 W’s
(who, why, what,
when, where)
Healthy friction

9. But all is not always well...
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10. We still have...
… the odd person / department pulling away
right when we want to go left!
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Thank You
Kurush Wadia
Manager - Product Development
Continuum – www.continuum.net
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurushwa
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