Home Depot's October 2015 meetup presentation on their adoption of Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

1. Cloud Foundry &
The Home Depot
What tools can teach us about our people and processes.

2. greetings
the mission
a plan
the reality
the challenges & lessons
Agenda

3. Greetings
14 years
Anthony McCulley
Manager, App Platforms & Dev Tools
The Home Depot
anthonymcculley
Startups

4. The Mission
Build better software.

5. A Plan
how do I build better software?

6. A Plan
Do some research

7. A Plan
Drink from the hydrant

8. A Plan
Get some help

9. A Plan
Get some tools

10. The Reality – In the Beginning
We turned this…

11. The Reality – Going to Production
… into this! #facepalm

12. The Challenges & Lessons
What Cloud Foundry is
teaching us about our
company.

13. Challenge #1
cf push == deploy in minutes
DISCUSS: Why do you think it took us 4.5
hours?!?

14. Oh yea – these people.

15. Lesson #1
Get all the players involved early on.
Use new things as a catalyst to question
everything. Nothing is sacred.
5 Whys.
Let teams think. Don’t control via
crippled tools.

16. Lesson #2
Apply new processes to old things.
Look for low-hanging fruit.

17. Challenge #2
So teams can push quickly now.
DISCUSS: Why don’t teams push more
frequently?

18. Lesson #3
Drive deployment costs down until
going to prod is free.

19. Lesson #4
Come up with a ToS for “going fast”.
Approve a process for auto-approving
frequent change instead of manually
approving all changes.

20. Lesson #5
Personify your software – think of
Facebook for Apps.
What does it mean to:
• Interact with an app’s wall
• Like an app
• Friend request an app
• See an app’s friends list

21. Lesson #6
Store meta data about your software.
Be able to query and filter.
DISCUSS: What are some interesting
data points? To deploy? To support?

22. Challenge #3
We now have the means to push quickly and
frequently… but some are scared to do so.
DISCUSS: Why are teams scared of pushing to
production? How do we build confidence?

23. Lesson #7
Make small changes and push
frequently.
Go from “don’t make mistakes” to
“recover very quickly”
Use blue / green deployments.
Pilot with low risk applications and
ramp up.

24. Lesson #8
Have good leaders. Get them onboard.
Celebrate learning what doesn’t work – aka
saving money.
Don’t overreact to first production issue under
new processes. Avoid new “operational scars”.

25. Challenge #4
Users can create new orgs or sign up
for Pivotal Tracker in minutes online.
DISCUSS: Why does this take days at
The Home depot?

26. Lesson #8
Remove all barriers to entry for
collaborative tools.
Enable self-provisioning.
Running out of licenses is a good thing!

27. Thanks! Any questions?