GIULIO IANNAZZO | SOLUTIONS ENGINEER
A beginner’s guide to
scaling DevOps
Agenda
Common hurdles
DevOps level set
7 steps
DevOps
A culture where dev and ops
collaborate to build a faster, more
reliable release pipeline.
Agenda
Common hurdles
DevOps level set
7 steps
Disparate tooling
Commonly leads to
miscommunication, wasted time,
and mass confusion
Common
hurdles
Disparate
tooling
Mindset
Too many
changes
Security &
compliance
Mindset
“If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” mindset
and cultural silos can stop a DevOps
initiative in its tracks
Common
hurdles
Disparate
tooling
Mindset
Too many
changes
Security &
compliance
Analysis paralysis
Easy to get overwhelmed with the
amount of possible changes included
in “going DevOps”
Common
hurdles
Disparate
tooling
Mindset
Analysis
paralysis
Security &
compliance
Security &
compliance
Current “enterprise-ready” tooling
doesn’t support modern development
techniques
Common
hurdles
Disparate
tooling
Mindset
Too many
changes
Security &
compliance
Agenda
Common hurdles
DevOps level set
7 steps
7 steps to
scaling
DevOps
1. DON’T FORCE IT
Don’t tell them,
show them
LEADERSHIP
SERVICE
PROJECT
TEAM HEALTH MONITORS TEAM PLAYS
Team
Playbook
Roles &
Responsibilities
Define roles & responsibilities
and clarify team interactions
Rules of
Engagement
Collaboratively define your
team’s social norms
Pre-mortem
Prevent problems before they
come to fruition
Retrospectives
Reflect on where can improve
2. Do your homework
Search out teams who have already
experienced DevOps success and share it
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3. It’s a
journey, not a
destination
Process
Make small process changes, offer guidelines
and guardrails
Workshops
Get teams together and run mock Agile sprints
with new processes & tooling in place
Tooling
Get teams into the tools first, the mindset will
come shortly after
4. Fake it
till you
make it
Build a foundation
Share best practices, access
WIP, manage 1 stack of tooling
Customize where
needed
Customize workflows through
integrations
5. Create consistency
6. Plan for rapid
growth
Choose tools built to stay performant and
cater to other enterprise needs
7. When in doubt,
get some help
Get help from an
experienced DevOps
practitioner. Certified
Solution Partners &
Atlassian Technical
Account Managers
(TAMs) can help.
Set up guardrails
Make it easy to do the right thing and
harder to do the wrong. Set up
guardrails and lower your risk.
Change up your team
structure
Create cross functional teams to share
knowledge and speed up reaction times
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GIULIO IANNAZZO | SOLUTIONS ENGINEER
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A beginners guide to scaling DevOps