1. The Latest Trend for Agility and Rapid
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Development: DevOps
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Dr. Helen Dai
Director of Product Management, DevOps
IBM Software, Rational

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Three major shifts are driving the next era of computing
▪Data: a new basis of competitive advantage
▪Cloud: a path to new business models
▪ Engagement: a change in the way the world works
DevOps
Experimentation, feedback loops,
continuous innovation
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DevOps is the “HOW” !
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3. Organizations must embrace new business models and disruptive
technologies to be competitive, meet business needs and innovate
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Systems
of
Records
Cloud-­‐Enabled
(On
Prem)
Optimize Innovate
Focus
on
Operational
Costs
• Consolidation
and
modernization
• Improved
operations
automation
• Risk
and
compliance
management
• Go
from
manual
approach
to
analytics-­‐driven
optimization
Systems
of
Engagement
Cloud
First
(Off
Prem)
Focus
on
Speed
and
Agility
• Assemble
solutions
from
verified
components
and
services
• Continuous
Development
and
deployment
in
the
cloud
• Fail
Fast
and
continuously
gather
and
assess
market
/
user
feedback
Driving the Need
Driving Investment
Operations
Development
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4. DevOps approach: Apply Lean principles to software delivery to
create a continuous feedback loop with customers
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Line-of-business
Customer
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3
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1. Get ideas into production fast
2. Get people to use it
3. Get feedback
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Adopt DevOps approach to continuously
manage changes, obtain feedback and
deliver changes to users
Eliminate any
activity that is not
necessary for
learning what
customers want

5. People
Process
Technology
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DevOps Principles and Values
• Deliver small increments of functionality
• Enable collaboration between all players and remove silos
Automate environment provisioning & app deployments
• Develop and test against a production-like environments
• Continuously test & integrate code, test early(shift left testing)
• Optimize end-to-end software delivery pipeline
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• Amplify feedback loops and continuous improvement
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Apply Lean Thinking to
eliminate bottlenecks, reduce cycle time and risk of failure at the same time