Steven Acreman's slides from our first DevOps Exchange event in London with his personal view on what the goal of DevOps really is. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaBjLwxfkE You can join our future events by signing up here: http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Exchange-London

1. THE GOAL OF DEVOPS
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2. A BIT ABOUT ME
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Entire career working alongside developers as a sysadmin
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Implemented ‘DevOps’ practices on several projects at Pitney Bowes
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Moved to Alfresco and helped launch their cloud service
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Now CTO at
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Likes: Computers doing work for me, anything python, beer and
sysadmins
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Dislikes: Curly braces, people who don’t adhere to PEP8 and being cold

3. WHAT IS DEVOPS?
Lean
build the
right thing
BIZ
Agile
build it
quickly
DEV
DevOps
release it
quickly
OPS

4. COMPONENTS OF DEVOPS

5. SPLIT INTO LAYERS

6. THE GOAL OF DEVOPS?
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Reduce risk
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Faster time to market
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Increased agility
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Putting control back into the hands of the business
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Increased time efficiencies

7. THE REAL GOAL
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Increase net profit
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Increase return on
investment
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Increase cash flow

8. HOW?
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Identify bottlenecks
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Eliminate bottlenecks where possible
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Manage remaining bottlenecks carefully
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Work as a team. No silos.

9. FOR OPS
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Automate your entire job
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Create self-service tools for any
touch points
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Embed yourselves in development
sprints
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Monitor everything!
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Recognise that your goal is to
make the company money

10. FOR DEV
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The Service > The Product
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Building inventory of unreleased code is
pointless
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If you get ahead of the release then do nonfunctional dev to help remove / mitigate
bottlenecks
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The feature isn’t done until it has been working
in prod forever
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Recognise that your goal is to make the
company more money

11. SUMMARY
Idea
Release

12. Q&A
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