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- 1. Changing a culture to a culture of change Joseph.mckevitt@ig.com Follow us on https://twitter.com/lifeatig https://www.linkedin.com/company/igcom Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 2. The butterfly effect • A couple of book suggestions…. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 3. Agenda • The journey of CD adoption in a highly regulated financial institution • A few stories (40 mins) • Q & A (10 mins) Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 4. This is not a talk on • Introduction to Continuous Delivery • Selling Continuous Delivery • Continuous delivery engineering practices • Test automation Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 5. Take away Strategies for CD adoption in your organisation Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 6. World’s No.1 spread betting provider Established global markets lead over 40 years FTSE 250 company Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 7. Place Order Order Confirmation Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 8. Reality • Complex Architecture • Large Workforce • Highly regulated Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 9. Faster Time to Market Better Quality More Efficiency Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 10. Fear of change Act 1 – Summer 2011 A bad system will defeat a good person every time – Deming Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 11. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 12. Monthly Releases • 8 week release cycle • 4 weeks development cycle • 4 weeks regression cycle • Release out of hours Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 13. Positive aspects of release trains • Monthly deliverables • Clear delivery alignment • Good team collaboration Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 14. Problems with Release Trains Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 15. Problems with Release Trains Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 16. Culture is how we do things around here in order to succeed Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 17. A couple of book suggestions.. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 18. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 19. Yes we can! Act 2 – November 2011 In dreams begins responsibility - Yeats Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 20. Focused on solving a single problem Get our Friday nights back! Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 21. Zero Downtime Deploys http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 22. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 23. Campaign for change Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 24. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 25. Our first CD practitioners Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 26. Zero Downtime Deploys http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 27. Piece of cake! Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 28. Promote our success - Friday nights are back! Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 29. The reaction “Sounds great, but its unlikely we can apply it to our critical workflows” [Development] “Doubling up your infrastructure. What a waste of resource!” [Operations] “Releasing during core hours…cowboys!” [Development & Operations] Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 30. The business reaction Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 31. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 32. Lets get Serious Act 3 - 2013 Don’t waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade - Brown Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 33. Focused on solving a single problem Can we do zero downtime deploys on mission critical apps? Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 34. Trading API Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 35. Impediment - Motivation Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 36. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 37. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 38. Trading API Practising Continuous Deployments In 9 months…1750 deploys to test Around 9 times a day Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 39. Taking CD one step further Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 40. Deploy pipeline
- 41. Done means in Production Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 42. Promote our success – Releasing every 2 week on the core flow Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 43. The Reaction “Okay this is cool, tell us how we can do it” [Development] Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 44. Internal Meetups Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 45. The Reaction “Okay this is cool, tell us how we can do it” [Development] “What can we do to help you guys scale this?” [Operations] “The guys don’t murder me for asking for late changes” [Trading API Product owner] Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 46. The business reaction Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 47. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 48. The Tipping point Act 4 – Jan 2014 All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride - Deming Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 49. Focused on solving a single problem How can we move our trading platform onto a CD workflow? Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 50. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 51. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 52. Impediment - Technical Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 53. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 54. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 55. Impediment – Culture Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 56. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 57. Moved from Monthly releases, to weekly releases to daily releases over a few months The more confidence, the more aggressive the release cadence Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 58. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 59. Quality improvements Before CD 55 Man days of regression – 10,000 test cases After CD 6 Man days of regression – tailored to each release Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 60. Team Culture • I feel empowered [QA Lead] • Forces close collaboration • Time to think Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 61. Promote our success – Releasing every day Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 62. The Reaction “You deploy 3 or 4 times a week…seriously?” [IT department] “Why can’t all the teams do this?” [Operations] Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 63. The business reaction Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 64. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 65. a lot done, more to do Act 5 - Today Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends - Tracy Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 66. Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 67. Business Agility http://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense- of-mvpChanging a culture to a culture of change
- 68. Scaling our mind set Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 69. Summary • Started with a simple Pilot • Practised on more simple Pilots • Migrated Trading API • Migrated the Web Trading Platform Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 70. Focus on one problem at a time • Introduce zero downtime deploys to non-critical flows • Introduce zero downtime deploys to critical flows • Done means in Production • Greenfield CD projects – One click releases • Migrating the crown jewels onto a CD friendly architecture • Releasing WTP outside the release cycle (every 2 weeks) • Releasing WTP 3-4 times a week Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 71. Transparency - Alignment from the start Respect People Tell everyone what you are doing and why Keep everyone updated Share the lessons (good or bad) Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 72. Build on your results • CD enables better quality software • CD practisers will help CD adoption • Successful adoption cannot be mandated • Incremental improvements and a clear vision over detailed upfront planning • Target your adoption strategy towards uncertainity Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 73. References Online Content • Continuous Delivery with Jez Humble • http://www.meetup.com/London-Continuous-Delivery/ • Spotify engineering culture Audio Content • SE Radio • Episode 221: Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery • Episode 234: Barry O’Reilly on Lean Enterprise Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 74. References Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 75. Culture is how we do things around here in order to succeed Changing a culture to a culture of change
- 76. Questions Help us go further with Continuous Delivery… http://www.iggroup.com/careers/teams/technology https://labs.ig.com/blog Follow us on https://twitter.com/lifeatig https://www.linkedin.com/company/igcom