Over the past 3.5 years, Visma has worked in a structured way to change and modernize how we develop, deliver and operate our cloud services.

1. The Visma Cloud
Delivery Model
3 years and 40 teams later
T. Alexander Lystad
Chief Cloud Architect
Visma Enterprise
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2. ● >8k employees
● HQ in Oslo, Norway
● We make cloud software
○ HRM
○ ERP
○ CRM
○ Invoicing
○ Education
○ Health
○ +++

3. Our Large Scale DevOps Transformation

4. →

6. 1 release every two months
↓
6 releases per month

7. Origins

12. Continuous Delivery
● Monitoring
● Automated testing
● Automated deployment (incl. infrastructure as code)
● +++

13. Core Principles
Organization
Processes
Requirements

14. Onboarding

15. End
Assign roles
● Service Owner
● Service Architect
● Infrastructure
Engineer
● Business Analyst(s)
● Developer(s)
● Security Engineer
● Agile Lead
● Test Lead
● Test Engineer
● Technical Test
Engineer
● Incident Coordinator
● Release Coordinator
● Change Manager
Start

16. End
Attend kickoffs
● Onboarding
● Development
● Test
● Release
● Monitoring
● Incident
● Change
● Security
Start

17. End
Perform gap
analyses
● Continuous Delivery
● Security
● Reliability
● Performance
● UX
● Technical Debt
Management
Start

18. End
Resolve
deviations
Typically what
takes the most
time.
Start

19. Final approval
Teams explain
how they have
met VCDM
requirements.
EndStart

20. Final approval
Teams explain
how they have
met VCDM
requirements.
End
Resolve
deviations
Typically what
takes the most
time.
Perform gap
analyses
● Continuous Delivery
● Security
● Reliability
● Performance
● UX
● Technical Debt
Management
Attend kickoffs
● Onboarding
● Development
● Test
● Release
● Monitoring
● Incident
● Change
● Security
Assign roles
● Service Owner
● Service Architect
● Infrastructure
Engineer
● Business Analyst(s)
● Developer(s)
● Security Engineer
● Agile Lead
● Test Lead
● Test Engineer
● Technical Test
Engineer
● Incident Coordinator
● Release Coordinator
● Change Manager
Start