Agile Organizational aspects forDevOps and Continuous Delivery

1. Robbrecht van Amerongen, AMIS
Agile Organizational aspects for
DevOps and Continuous Delivery

2. Wie ben ik?

3. Improving Organizational Agility
1. Tools
2. Competencies
3. Agile decision making
4. Know your process
5. Delegation
6. Resilience
7. Learning

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DevOps / Continuous Delivery
• Is essential for being Agile in IT
• Not only tools..
pay attention to organization / culture/ structure
• Goals:
– Reliable
– Predictable
– Shorter time to market

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6. People who break stuff
“developers” “ops team”
People who deal with the consequences

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People who break stuff less and deal with the consequences
“Devops team”

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1. Technology and Organization

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Use a tool for Agile?
• Focus on learning Agile process instead of the tool
• Tools create needs you don’t have
• Tools add costs to your team
• Tools can be intimidating
It all depends:
Is your organization ready to use a tool?

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Mismatch ?

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2. Competences
• Cross functional team
• Hidden competences?
• Focus on team collaboration
Do work based on existing competences
or
Form team on required competences?
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Required Existing

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“Use the force (of your team)”, Luke
Leverage hidden competences
• Product videos
• Design artwork
• Social media expertise
• Facilitation
• Training
• Documentation

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3. Agile thinking
• Cynefin Framework and Agile
• Sense making framework for team decisions
• Think different depending on domain
Complicated or Complex
Legal procedures = Complicated
New business development = Complex
Production issues = Chaos
Predictable work = Simple (mind this part…)

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4. Know your process

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Visit the place where the magic happens

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5. Delegate, self organizing teams
Team Manager
“Planning the future / vision ”“creating business value”

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Manager and Impediments

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6. Build in Organizational Resilience
• Standardize Continuous change
 Build resilience within your organization.
 Make sure you’re ready for changes.
 Expect frequent changes.
 Build reliable stuff.
 If the process doesn’t work, fix it and improve it.

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Be prepared to be amazed, stay colorful

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7. Consolidate learning

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7. Consolidate learning
• If anything, keep the retrospectives
• Learning
• Reflection
 Challenge people to become curious
 Learn fast, and you’ll become better
 Learn from outside your expertise, and
you’ll understand more
 Learn faster than your competitors!

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Learn and consolidate
T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 T 6
Learning
Give them a
break
Give them a
break
Learn
Learn
Learn

25. Practical Agile
1. Tools
2. Competencies
3. Agile decision making
4. Know your process
5. Delegation
6. Resilience
7. Learning

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