Lowell Young discusses enabling self-service for developers through automation. He advocates automating approval processes, giving users ownership over access, and automating everything that can be automated to reduce overhead. He highlights tools like single sign-on, GitHub apps, messaging bots, and cloud infrastructure that can help achieve effective self-service and discusses clarifying user interfaces, empowering users, and automating on-boarding, authorization and other processes. The goal is to get out of developers' way and make everything easy through self-service.
4. 4
Submit a ticket
• What system?
• What type of ticket?
• What details?
Wait for it…
• Approval
• Processing
• Queue
• Time zone
• Minutes / hours /
days
Administration
• Owner approves
access
• Manager approves
access
• Admin grants access
Follow step by step
• Every step should be
a backlog item for
automation
• User interpreted
steps cause issues
How do you get what you need?
9. 9
Automate everything, backlog less frequent items
• Mine data regarding user and actions
• Automate approval touch points for ease of use
• Feedback, tell the user everything you did
Give users ownership over access
• Keep least privilege in mind
• Distributed overhead
• Backlog each item for an automated option
Automate, Automate, Automate…
14. 14
Document
• Dos & don’ts
• Share your code
• How to
• FAQ
Engage
• Office hours
• Social messaging
• E-mail
• Help others help themselves
Educate
• Lectures
• Videos
• Examples
• Help others help themselves
Traditional Self-Service Enablement
15. 15
Single Sign On
• Reduce
administrative
overhead
• Least privilege
access
• Integrated
authorization
• Ease of use
• Consistent user
experience
19. 19
Clarify the user interface
• Installation
• Authorization
• Notification
Empower while you enable
• Share the burden of
responsibility
• Empower business units to
take control of their own fate (if
they accept it)
Automate everything (you can)
• On-boarding
• Authorization
• Traceability
• Policy
Self-Service Summarized
20. Lowell Young, SAP Concur
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Editor's Notes
My name is Lowell Young
I have been in the industry for over 16 years
Background in software development
With a passion for automating repeat developer actions
Not just for managers
Your corporate culture is also reflected in how you enable devs
We trust customers for self service but in many cases have left internal services behind
What type of ticket do you use for requesting access to Slack?What? I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!