This presentation focusses on the challenges faced by the BBC Sport engineering team in order to continue to innovative and deliver high performing products while establishing sound, repeatable development practices. The presentation will discuss how our practices have changed and how we strive to continually improve our automated testing and development cycle. I’ll introduce and demonstrate a number of the Open Source tools we have established and show how both the “3 Amigos Process” and sweet confections (cake) helped us learn and improve without blame.

1. Keith Mitchell
Group Engineering Manager, Future Media Sport
t: @specialized
e : keith.mitchell@bbc.co.uk
How BBC Sport Scales Engineering

3. NEWS
LIVE
Radio
SEARCH
WEATHER
HOMEPAGE
ABOUT THE BBC
TRAVEL
MUSIC
Bitesize
ARTS
FOOD
NEWSBEAT
PROGRAMMES

4. SPORT

11. 96 million
Brazil World Cup - The Open Championship
(12 June - 20 July)

12. 77.6 million (June)
Biggest month in our entire history
bit.ly/BBCSportRecord

13. A New Start & Home - MediaCityUK

14. People & Process
Engineering Excellence
Build & Release Pipeline
Tooling

15. http://paulxwillis.wordpress.com

17. No blame just cake!
CI (improvement)

18. Wagile, Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan, WTF ?

19. The team
Communication (Tickets)
Ceremonies

20. The Dev Team
The Delivery Team

23. Pay Attention to the entire chain
What’s your cycle time ?
The value isn’t important, the journey will be !

25. People & Process
Engineering Excellence
Build & Release Pipeline
Tooling

26. BDD & TDD
Acceptance Criteria (ACs)
Moved ACs out of JIRA / Confluence
AC in version control
AC drives automated tests

27. Automated Tests
on every commit

28. Engineering Excellence and ‘4 Good Things’ (TM)
Meaningful code reviews
Developers being accountable for non-functional requirements
(DoD, NFR checklist)
Continuous integration
Automated acceptance testing

29. Common Language
(Gherkin Syntax -> Ruby step defs)
Communication
Easy to know when you are done
(Good spec = good tests)
http://cukes.info

30. The 3 4 Amigos
- Pre-Amigos
- Three Amigos
- Agree/Post Amigos

31. Ruby & PHP App
(pain in the ass)
Moving to more Client-side JS
Cucumber worked for a while...

32. BA (& dev) driven change
It Should over Given, When, Then scenarios

33. Should IT
github.com/bbc-sport/ShouldIT

34. People & Process
Engineering Excellence
Build & Release Pipeline
Tooling

35. Operations
as live production
Dev
int test stage live
sandbox
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer

36. Operations
as live production
Dev
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer

43. Hack Days & Innovation Time
Benefit to the business & the team
(less faff!)

44. People & Process
Engineering Excellence
Build & Release Pipeline
Tooling

45. Tooling
leads to
Practices & behaviours
leads to
Culture
(so important, we made a 5th team)

46. Operations
as live production
Dev
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer

47. Operations
as live production
Dev
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer

48. Operations
as live production
Dev
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer

49. Operations
as live production
Dev
pain !
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer
pain !
“works on my
machine”
Poor data
1 version of package

50. Operations
as live production
Dev
pain !
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer
pain !
“works on my
machine”
Poor data
1 version of package

51. Operations
as live production
Dev
pain !
Poor data
new platform
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer
pain !
1 version of package

54. sandbox live diff

59. Operations
as live production
Dev
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer
new platform

60. Operations
as live production
Dev
pain !
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer
pain !
new platform
magic faff reducing toolbox

61. Operations
as live production
Dev
pain !
Good data
int test stage live
sandbox
SPORT NEWS HOMEPAGE
shared platform
rpm rpm
A Sport
Engineer
rpm
rpm rpm
done
pain
barrier !
must be
stable &
trustable
Audience
bbc.co.uk/developer
pain !
new platform
magic faff reducing toolbox

62. trust
confidence
less faff
happy team
predictablilty

65. SOCHI

67. That’s the journey so far
Next: CD / Dev Ops / Data Driven / Lean Analytics / RUM . . .
. . . more chance for us to lower the faffage* !
* faffage may not be a real word

68. The tools are here :
github.com/bbc-sport/ShouldIT
github.com/bbc-sport/viewporter
github.com/BBC-News/Wraith
More coming soon. . .

69. Thanks for your time
Keith Mitchell
Group Engineering Manager
t: @specialized
e : keith.mitchell@bbc.co.uk