Large organizations can be filled with manual processes, and many people feel they are stuck with them. Bill Roberts and James La Spada tell the story of how Capital One used DevOps culture and kanban principles to significantly increase the speed of feature delivery—while lowering risk. Their team took the name Meteor, inspired by the big one that took out the dinosaurs, because they wanted to cause the mass extinction of these manual processes. Work at Capital One was previously completed manually, and many inefficiencies were evident. Bill and James helped drive the transformation to a DevOps culture, and have seen improvements in time to market and quality through automation. Eliminating component teams and properly applying kanban principles have enabled Bill and James to teach teams the core principles needed to embrace DevOps. They can now manage their own adoption of DevOps in an effort to move the organization to full continuous integration and continuous delivery.

1. DW5
Concurrent Session
11/8/17 2:45 PM
The Mass Extinction of Manual
Processes: A DevOps Success Story
Presented by:
Bill Roberts
Capital One
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2. Bill Roberts
Capital One
Bill Roberts had his first experiences in technology as the manager of financial
planning and analysis for IT organizations at Bank One, ING DIRECT USA, and
Capital One. In 2013 he transitioned to IT as backlog owner for five middleware
teams developing APIs. Now ScrumMaster for DevOps team Meteor, Bill has
added some technical tasks to help evolve the ScrumMaster role from solely
facilitating agile.