The document outlines how applying DevOps and agile principles at scale can significantly improve enterprise operations, indicating a reduction in development costs from $100 million to $55 million annually and a 140% increase in product development. It also emphasizes enhancing feedback quality, improving deployment repeatability, and the importance of executive engagement in driving organizational transformation. Overall, the approach aims to foster continuous improvement and increase innovation capacity from approximately 5% to 40%.

1. Making the Enterprise Agile
“Applying DevOps and Agile Principles at Scale”
Gary Gruver
October 23, 2014

2.  FW no longer a bottleneck for
the business
 Development costs reduced
from $100M/yr. to $55M/yr.
 140% increase in the number
of products under development
 Capacity for innovation
increased from ~5% to ~40%

3. Planning & Prioritized
Backlog
Making the Enterprise Agile
Applying DevOps
Principles at Scale
Business
Objectives
Enterprise Level
Continuous
Improvement

4. Business Objectives
Increase the quality and frequency of feedback
Testing in an Operational like environment as close to dev. as possible
Reduce the time and resources between release branch & production
Improve deployment repeatability/env. stability

5. Ensuring the Architecture/Build System is Ready
Comp A v1 Comp B v1
v2 v12 Comp C v1
Comp D v2 v2
v2
v1 Comp E v1 Comp F v2
v1

6. Automated System Test Architecture
Component based approach to the automated test architecture
Data Magic
Navigation
Page Objects

7. Unique Considerations for Horses
Cost of Failure
Ease of Deployment
Test Env = Production
Architectural

8. Embedded SW/FW
Simulators
Emulators
Packaged SW
Upgrade
Compatibility
Patches
Web/SaaS
Continuous
Delivery
DevOps Unique Challenges

9. Finding the Offending Code
What Code? When?
Are you sure it wasn’t
Gene?

10. Building Up a Large SW System
Interface Test Simulator
Agile
Comp 1
Agile
Comp 2
Agile
Comp 3
Agile
Comp 4
Agile
Comp 5
Agile
Comp 6
Legacy
Waterfall
IT 1
Legacy
Waterfall
IT 2
Legacy
Waterfall
IT 3
Agile
Comp 1

11. Auto-revert/Gated Commits

12. Building up the Enterprise
Gating at the
Application or Artifact
Gating at the SCM
Interface Test
Simulator
Gating at the SCM
Interface Test
Simulator

13. CD - Picking the Right Tool for the Job
Orchestrator
Trigger Scripted
Env
Deploy
ment
EDD
Auto
Testing

14. Scripting Environments - Variances
Dev/QA PRE-PROD PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION
Environment descriptors
Common Script Common Script Common ScriCpotmmon Script

15. Evolutionary Database
 Add deprecate
 Lazy instantiation
 Don’t alter or modify
 It is like crossing the beams

16. Finding the Offending Component Quickly Improves Productivity
1 Configure Servers/Routing Device
:
2 Deploy Code
:
3 Run a System Test
:
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

17. Finding the Offending Component Quickly Improves Productivity
Configure Servers/Routing
1 Device and Validate Data
:
Deploy Code & Validate
2 Successful Deployment
:
3 Run a System Test
:
Code Validated

18. Release Branch

19.  FW no longer a bottleneck for
the business
 Development costs reduced
from $100M/yr. to $55M/yr.
 140% increase in the number
of products under development
 Capacity for innovation
increased from ~5% to ~40%

20. Where could I use help?
• How do we get executives to engage and
help lead the transformation of their
organizations?

21. Making the Enterprise Agile
“Applying DevOps and Agile Principles at Scale”
E-mail: gbgruver@gmail.com
Blog: largescaleagile.com
Twitter: @GRUVERGary