DevOps is a set of lean development principles, delivery automation tools, and cloud practices that helps technology teams solve challenges around delivery speed and cost containment. DevOps provides visibility, enhances productivity, improves quality, and increases delivery cadence. DevOps touches every aspect of IT delivery including architecture, continuous deployment, delivery, operations, testing, integration, infrastructure, security, culture, and planning. For testers, DevOps presents opportunities to contribute to increased velocity through automation skills and incremental testing approaches, while being ready to take on more testing responsibilities.

1. DevOps: The Big Picture
For Testers

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The Forgotten Generation

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Dow Jones Stock Market 1972-1982
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US Unemployment Rate 1972-1982
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Crude Oil Prices 1972-1982
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Survival

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When it Comes to Job Security…

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Current State

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You can't just ask
customers what they want
and then try to give that to
them. By the time you get
it built, they'll want
something new.
- Steve Jobs, Apple

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We now live in a rapidly
changing technology world
#ITChangesEverything
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In the last 20 years, 52% of the Fortune 500
companies have disappeared.
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Average Company Life Expectancy
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Some companies are adapting
and thriving
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Some Companies Adapt and Thrive

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New Forms of Competition Have Arrived

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What is the common thread?
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They understand software delivery speed matters
Deliver more value faster
than your competitors or
risk extinction.
- Modern Application Playbook 2017 Forrester

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They are faster and more stable
•They deploy during the business day
•They realize business value in weeks, not months
•They have self-healing architectures
•They resolve incidents minutes, not hours or days

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They have lowered key costs
•Automated release reduce costs by 90%
•Automated tests reduce long term testing costs
by 72%
•Infrastructure and operational costs are reduced
by 40%

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They have improved relations
•4x customer engagement
•3x employee retention
•2x productivity

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They have increased Velocity
While containing Costs
And maintaining Quality

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And they did it with DevOps
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What Is DevOps?

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What Others Say DevOps Is…
The end goal of infrastructure as code is to
perform as many infrastructure tasks as
possible programmatically. Key word is
“automation.” – Wikipedia

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What Others Say DevOps Is…
DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies,
practices, and tools that increases an organization’s
ability to deliver applications and services at high
velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster
pace than organizations using traditional software
development and infrastructure management
processes. This speed enables organizations to
better serve their customers and compete more
effectively in the market. – AWS

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What Others Say DevOps Is…
DevOps is the union of people, process, and
technology to enable continuous delivery of
value to customers. – Microsoft

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What Others Say DevOps Is…
DevOps is a cultural and professional
movement – Adam Jacob

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What Others Say DevOps Is…
No one can tell you what exactly it is, but you
know it when you see it work” – Botchagalupe

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What I Say DevOps Is…
DevOps is a set of lean development principles,
delivery automation tools, and cloud practices
that helps your technology teams and
executives solve their delivery speed and cost
containment challenges.
– Joseph Ours

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DevOps provides visibility, enhances productivity,
improves quality, and increases delivery cadence.
DevOps is a set of lean development principles, delivery automation tools,
and cloud practices that helps your technology teams and executives solve
their delivery speed and cost containment challenges.

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ARCHITECTURE
Facilitates rapid deployability through modularity and loose coupling
CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT
Automatically promotes proven code to aa production ready state
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
Demonstrates the code is always in a deployable state
CONTINUOUS OPERATIONS
Operates applications and features in a
manner that results in zero downtime
for users.CONTINUOUS TESTING
Provides feedback on the business risks
associated with a release candidate
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
Integrates small changes frequently to
ensure code is always in a known state
INFRASTRUCTURE
Provides ubiquitous, proven, computing resources
CONTINUOUS SECURITY
Integrates security needs into the pipeline and the core fabric of an organization
LEAN PRACTICES
Improves visibility, quality, and velocity
CULTURE
Promotes learning and collaboration to create the ability to respond to change
CONTINUOUS PLANNING
Expedites business driven
technology needs in a world of
rapidly changing market
And DevOps Touches Every Aspect of IT Delivery
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
Allows for continual evaluation of productivity, velocity, and quality

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DevOps isn’t about
delivering software.
It’s about delivering a
pipeline that can deliver
software continuously.

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How does this affect me?
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In every area, there are testing and quality impacts
#QAChangesEverything

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What are our opportunities?
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Velocity
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You can contribute to velocity
or, rather, to increasing velocity
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Learn some automation skills
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Office Macros
Robot Process Automation
Learn Programming Skills

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Embrace Incremental Testing
•Make test suites parsable
•Be your team’s MacGyver
•Dig into layers of testing
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Be Ready for More Testing
• Rapid Testing Techniques
• Eager Acceptance
• Concise Feedback
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You are speed
Automate what you can
Embrace incremental testing
Be ready for more testing
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Value
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Individual commitment to a
group effort--that is what
makes a team work,
a company work,
a society work,
a civilization work.
--Vince Lombardi

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Testing Needs to Inform
•Provide information to stakeholders so
they can make informed decisions.
•Information over data
•Facts over speculation
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Lean in to the Team
•Testing will become more technical,
embrace new skills
•Leverage the team skills to get the job
done
•Ask them, how you can help
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Continually Improve
•Learn New Skills
•Find Ways to Improve Your Processes
and Practices
•Embrace Exploring Tools
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You are valuable
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Be an information
broker
Lean in to the team
Continually improve

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Never Let Them Forget About You

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Thank You
CentricConsulting.com
Joseph Ours
National Modern Software Delivery
Practice Lead
joseph.ours@centricconsulting.com
614-668-2306