Each year, the DevOps Research and Assessment group (DORA) publishes critical research revealing the impact of DevOps on organizations of all sizes. The findings show what makes some teams successful at DevOps, while others fall behind. Jez Humble, a founding member of DORA well known for his groundbreaking research on IT performance, and Redgate’s Microsoft MVP Steve Jones offer the latest insights from the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report – and what they mean for your organization and career.

2. Everything you need to know about
the 2019 DORA Accelerate State of
DevOps Report

3. About Redgate
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4. Our host
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sjones@sqlservercentral.com
@way0utwest
Steve Jones
www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest

5. Our guest speaker
@jezhumble
Jez Humble
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jez-humble/
Founder and CTO
Lecturer, UC Berkley
Cloud Advocate
https://continuousdelivery.com/

7. Agenda
• Key Findings from the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report
• Improvement
• Performance
• Productivity
• Culture

9. We have movement
● Look at the elite performers. Yay!
● Now look at the low performers. Yay!
● Check out medium performers…
● Now look at the medium vs. high.

11. How do Elite performers benefit?
Deployment frequency Lead time for changes
Time to restore service Change failure rate

12. Elite performers are
Technology delivers value
2xas likely
to meet or exceed their
organizational performance goals

13. Technology matters, so how do we improve?

14. ImprovingPerformance

15. Cloud
Cloud is a differentiator for elite
performance…
But only 29% of respondents met
all five characteristics of cloud
computing
Elite performers were 24 times
more likely to have met cloud
characteristics than low
performers
On-demand self-service
Broad network access
Resource pooling
Rapid elasticity
Measured service

16. Code maintainability
Contributes to CD and helps
reduce technical debt (stay
tuned!)
Change code maintained by other teams
Find code in the codebase
Reuse other people’s code
Add, upgrade, and migrate to new
versions of dependencies without
breaking code
Systems and tools that make it easy to:

17. ImprovingProductivity

18. What is productivity?
Productivity is the ability to get complex, time-consuming tasks completed with minimal
distractions and interruptions
This kind of productivity helps us
leave work at work and reduce
burnout

19. Technical Debt
Technical debt was
introduced in 1992 by Ward
Cunningham to describe what
happens when we fail to
maintain “immature code”
It is a problem for many of us
and includes code or systems
with:
Known bugs that go unfixed in favor of new
features
Insufficient test coverage
Problems related to low code quality or poor
design
Code or artifacts that aren’t cleaned up when
no longer used
Implementations the team doesn’t have
expertise in, and therefore can’t debug or
maintain
Incomplete migration
Obsolete technology
Incomplete or outdated documentation or
missing comments

20. Reducing Technical Debt
This helps us maintain a mental
model of our systems, something
Ward Cunningham suggested we
would need in his original article.
Maintainable code
Loosely coupled architecture
Monitoring

21. Culture

22. Culture is important
• A culture of trust and psychological safety has a positive impact on:
o Software delivery performance
o Organizational performance
o Productivity
• Accelerate finds that if you want to change your culture, you’re probably going to
need to get out of your silo.
• They asked respondents to share how DevOps and Agile is spread at their
organizations, and that found that…
o Low performers tend to favor Training Centers (also known as DOJOs) and
Centers of Excellence (CoE) – strategies that create more silos and isolated
expertise.”
o 57% of “Elite” performers were found to use Communities of Practice, the
heaviest concentration of any single strategy studied.

23. Key Takeaways

24. • DevOps drives business value: high performers at DevOps are 2 x more likely to meet
or exceed their organizational goals.
• Cloud is a differentiator for elite performance. Elite performers were 24 times more
likely to have met cloud characteristics than low performers
• Communities of practice are a common and successful tool to transform culture. 57%
of “Elite” performers were found to use Communities of Practice.
• Moving to DevOps means building a team that cuts across development and IT silos,
and whose success is measured on a ‘universal’ metric that accounts for both speed
and stability.
Key takeaways

25. Standardize
team-based development
Protect
and preserve data
Automate
database deployments
Monitor
performance & availability

26. Get in touch
Contact Redgate:
devops@red-gate.com
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