Devops State of the Union
John Willis
Director of Ecosystem Development
Docker, Inc.

Agenda
• Gartner Say’s
• Long live “Loose” Taxonomies…..
(CAMS and ICE)
• Devops Survey
• Devops in the Enterprise
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• a.k.a. John Willis
• 35 Years in IT Operations
• Exxon, Canonical, Chef,
Enstratius, Socketplane
• Devopsdays Core Organizer
• This is my 37 Devopsdays
• Devopscafe on iTunes

Loose Taxonomies
• CAMS
• Culture
• Automation
• Measurement
• Sharing
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What Devops Means to Me
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Culture
Automation
Measurement
Sharing Continuous
Improvement
Learning
DeliveryCollaboration
Cybernetic Feedback Loop

• ICE
• Inclusivity
• Complexity
• Empathy
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ICE - Inclusion
• Devopsdays
• Devops Survey
• Diversity
• Enterprise
• Security
• Network
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Devops Enterprise
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ICE - Inclusion
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ICE - Inclusion
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ICE - Complexity
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Complexity - Cynefin
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ICE - Empathy
• Dev … Ops
• Embedded
Engineers
• Blameless
Postmortems
• Safety Culture
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Empathy
ComplexityInclusion
ICE - Empathy
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Empathy
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Empathy - Burnout
• Work Overload
• Lack of Control
• Insufficient Reward
• Breakdown of Community
• Absence of Fairness
• Conflicting Values
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Empathy - Burnout
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Devops Survey 2015
• Better code quality.
• Better testing.
• Building apps with
testability and
deployability in mind.
• Creating a culture of
continuous
improvement.
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Devops Survey 2015
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Devops Enterprise Forum
2015
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Devops Enterprise
Case Studies
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• Target
• Devops Dojo
• Internal Devopsdays
• Reduced Stack Builds (Months->Minutes)
• Lean Enterprise Focus

Devops Enterprise
Case Studies
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• Verizon
• Deploys Up
• Cycle Time Down
• Defects Per Feature Down
• Financial Impact Up

Devops Enterprise
Case Studies
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• Nordstrom
• Implemented Toyota Kata Methods
• Twenty Percent Lead Time Reduction
• Cosmetics From Seven Days to Immediate
• Changed Leadership From ROI to Speed

Homework Assignment
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Links
• http://devopscafe.org/
• https://www.chef.io/blog/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/
• http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/devops-keeps-it-cool-with-ice.html
• https://www.ruggedsoftware.org/
• http://gauntlt.org/
• http://www.slideshare.net/joshcorman/continuous-acceleration-devopsdaysaustin2015corman
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin
• http://blog.ingineering.it/post/72964480807/empathy-the-essence-of-devops
• https://puppetlabs.com/blog/2015-devops-survey-here
• https://vimeo.com/101229409
• http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADP010445
• http://www.slideshare.net/botchagalupe/devopsdays-austin-2015-guns-germs-and-microservices
• http://www.lean.org/Bookstore/ProductDetails.cfm?SelectedProductId=9
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