The document discusses the transformation of an R&D organization from releasing 8 products every 18-24 months to releasing 15 products with continuous integration and deployment. It outlines the challenges of increasing speed, quality and scale through continuous automation in a DevOps pipeline. The organization aims to test early, fail early and fix early through end-to-end business flow testing under real-life conditions to provide visibility and insights.

1. Tal Levi Joseph
VP ADM R&D, HPE Software
Agile Sparks 2017

2. ADM R&D ID
80 Releases a year
5 Pillars
Execution ∙ Customers ∙ Innovation ∙ People
ADM R&D Organization 2017
Over 10,000
Customers
Performance
Engineering
Lifecycle
Management
Functional
Testing
Mobile &
Virtualization
Performance
Monitoring
R&D Engineers
in Multiple
Locations

3. Automation runs on demand
for specific areas
Build to QA every 2-4 weeks
Our Journey
FROM :
8 products
Major release every 18-24 months
On-Prem release every quarter &
SaaS release every 4-8 weeks
Continuous builds to R&D
15 products
TO :
Continuous automation in DevOps pipeline
Layered Development Org E2E ownership domains

4. TECHNOLOGY TECHNIQUE TALENT

5. The Challenge
Continuous automation in DevOps pipeline
SPEED
QUALITY
SCALE

6. What To Test

7. Connecting the dots – Actionable insights

8. Connecting the dots

9. Insights and visibility

10. Cont. Quality in DevOps
• Virtualize
• Automate (testing and CI)
• Monitor & Take Action
Test Early, Fail Early & Fix
Early
• E2E business flows – Ops to Dev
• Real life condition testing
• Corrective actions (CI, coverage, efficiency)
Visibility and Insights
• Gradual deployment
• Customers validation programs
• Real users staging environment and data
Real Feedbacks loops
And always remember,
You’re Only As Strong As Your Next Move