The document provides an overview of DevOps from the perspective of Magnus Hedemark. It discusses that DevOps means different things to different people as it is still evolving. To Hedemark, DevOps is about addressing the inefficiencies in the software industry through cultural, process, and organizational changes, sometimes leveraging technology. The document also discusses the concepts of CAMS (Culture, Automation, Measurement, Sharing), Theory of Constraints, Deming Cycle, Toyota Production System, Agile Manifesto, and Kanban as they relate to DevOps.

1. What DevOps Means to Me
Magnus Hedemark
DevOps Instigator
magnus@yonderway.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/hedemark
http://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/
@Magnus919 on Twitter

2. Who am I?
● I'm not Gene Kim.
● Usually Systems Engineer,
sometimes a people
manager, always a geek.
● Transitioning from an
Engineering Manager role
at Amplify Education to
Principal Systems Engineer
role at Red Hat (Aug 2013)
● Stirring the DevOps pot
wherever I go.

3. Who are you?

4. DevOps Snowflakes
● DevOps means different things to different
people.
● Sometimes it even means different things to
the same person.
● This is work in progress, it's new, and we're
still figuring it out.
● Wikipedia has a very well-tended page on
DevOps.

5. What does it mean to me? Today?
● “DevOps is not about a technology; DevOps is about
a business problem” – Damon Edwards
● The software industry is still rather nascent, and
doesn't operate effectively yet. DevOps seeks to
address this problem, mostly through cultural,
process, and organizational changes.
● Sometimes technology is leveraged to succeed at
these other more important things.

6. CAMS (John Willis)
● Culture
● Automation
● Measurement
● Sharing

7. Culture
“People and process first. If you don’t have
culture, all automation attempts will be
fruitless.”

8. Automation
“This is one of the places you start once you understand
your culture. At this point, the tools can start to stitch
together an automation fabric for Devops. Tools for
release management, provisioning, configuration
management, systems integration, monitoring and
control, and orchestration become important pieces in
building a Devops fabric.”

9. Measurement
“If you can’t measure, you can’t improve. A successful
Devops implementation will measure everything it can as
often as it can… performance metrics, process metrics,
and even people metrics.”

10. Sharing
“Sharing is the loopback in the CAMS cycle.
Creating a culture where people share ideas
and problems is critical.”

11. Eli Goldratt
● Israeli physicist,
business process
guru
● Theory of
Constraints
● Author of “The Goal”

12. Theory of Constraints (The Goal)
● Identify the system's constraint(s) (that which prevents the
organization from obtaining more of the goal in a unit of time)
● Decide how to exploit the system's constraint(s) (how to get
the most out of the constraint)
● Subordinate everything else to the above decision (align the
whole system or organization to support the decision made
above)
● Elevate the system's constraint(s) (make other major changes
needed to increase the constraint's capacity)
● Warning! If in the previous steps a constraint has been
broken, go back to step 1, but do not allow inertia to cause a
system's constraint.

13. William Edwards Deming
● American statistician
● Major influencer in rise of
Japan as an industrial
powerhouse
● Plan-Do-Check-Act

14. Deming Cycle

15. Taiichi Ohno
● Japanese
businessman
● Father of Toyota
Production System
(TPS)
● Just In Time (JIT)
● Lean Manufacturing

16. Toyota Production System (TPS)
● Design out overburden and inconsistency
● Eliminate waste
● Deliver the required results smoothly
● Process is as flexible as necessary without
stress or overburden
● Overburden generates waste
● Tactical improvements of waste reduction or
the elimination of waste are very valuable

17. Seven Kinds of Waste
● Waste of over production (largest waste)
● Waste of time on hand (waiting)
● Waste of transportation
● Waste of processing itself
● Waste of stock at hand
● Waste of movement
● Waste of making defective products

18. Continuous Improvement
● Challenge (We form a long-term vision,
meeting challenges with courage and
creativity to realize our dreams.)
● Kaizen (We improve our business
operations continuously, always driving for
innovation and evolution.)
● Genchi Genbutsu (Go to the source to find
the facts to make correct decisions.)

19. Respect for People
● Respect (We respect others, make every
effort to understand each other, take
responsibility and do our best to build
mutual trust.)
● Teamwork (We stimulate personal and
professional growth, share the opportunities
of development and maximize individual
and team performance.)

20. Long-Term Philosophy
● Base your management decisions on a long-
term philosophy, even at the expense of short-
term financial goals.

21. The right process will produce the right results
● Create continuous process flow to bring problems to the
surface.
● Use the "pull" system to avoid overproduction.
● Level out the workload (heijunka). (Work like the tortoise, not
the hare.)
● Build a culture of stopping to fix problems, to get quality right
from the first.
● Standardized tasks are the foundation for continuous
improvement and employee empowerment.
● Use visual control so no problems are hidden.
● Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your
people and processes.

22. Add value to the organization by
developing your people and partners
● Grow leaders who thoroughly understand
the work, live the philosophy, and teach it to
others.
● Develop exceptional people and teams who
follow your company's philosophy.
● Respect your extended network of partners
and suppliers by challenging them and
helping them improve.

23. Continuously solving root problems
drives organizational learning
● Go and see for yourself to thoroughly
understand the situation (leave your desk!)
● Make decisions slowly by consensus,
thoroughly considering all options; implement
decisions rapidly
● Become a learning organization through
relentless reflection and continuous
improvement (Kaizen)

24. Gene Kim – The Three Ways
● Systems Thinking
● Amplify Feedback Loops
● Culture of Continual Experimentation and Learning

25. First Way
Systems Thinking
● emphasizes the performance of the entire system, as
opposed to the performance of a specific silo of work or
department
● never pass a known defect to downstream work centers
● never allow local optimization to create global degradation
● always seek to increase flow
● always seeking to achieve profound understanding of the
system (Deming)

26. Second Way
Amplify Feedback Loops
● create the right to left feedback loops
● shorten and amplify feedback loops
● necessary corrections can be continually made
● understand and respond to all customers, internal and
external
● embedding knowledge where we need it

27. Third Way
Culture of Continual Experimentation and Learning
● continual experimentation
● taking risks and learning from failure
● understand that repetition and practice is the prerequisite to mastery
● allocate time for the improvement of daily work
● create rituals that reward the team for taking risks
● introduce faults into the system to increase resilience

28. Agile Manifesto
We value: Over:
Individuals and
interactions
processes and tools
Working software comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration contract negotiation
Responding to change following a plan

29. Agile Principals (1-6)
● Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of valuable software.
● Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile
processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
● Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a
couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
● Business people and developers must work together daily throughout
the project.
● Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the
environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job
done.
● The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to
and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.

30. Agile Principals (7-12)
● Working software is the primary measure of progress.
● Agile processes promote sustainable development. The
sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a
constant pace indefinitely.
● Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
enhances agility.
● Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is
essential.
● The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from
self-organizing teams.
● At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more
effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

31. Paths to Agile
Scrum
● Full-Time ScrumMaster Identified and Team Members Available to Do Work
● Team Agrees to Demonstrate Working Software in No More Than 30 Days
● Stakeholders Invited to Demonstration
● Full-Time Product Owner (with Expertise and Authority) Identified
● Product Owner Works With Team and All Other Stakeholders
● Product Backlog Created and Managed by Product Owner
● Daily Scrum Meeting with 3 Questions (Completed? Will Complete? Obstacles?)
● Daily Scrum Meeting Same Place and Time and Less Than 15 Minutes
● Regular Sprint Length (no more than 30 days)
● Sprint Planning Meeting to Create Sprint Backlog of Estimated Tasks
● Sprint Burndown Chart
● Team Room with All Needed Equipment and Supplies
● Retrospective Meeting for Process Improvements
● Definition of Done
● Commitment Velocity Calculated (from Sprint Backlog Estimates)
● Team Size 7 +/-2, Maximum of 12
● Cross-Functional Team Including ScrumMaster and Product Owner
● Team Self-Organization – Team Members Volunteer for Tasks
● ScrumMaster Tracking and Removing Obstacles
● - Team Safety – No Interruptions to Team’s Work During Sprints
Kanban
● Visualize your
workflow
● Limit your work in
progress

32. Kanban

33. Kanban – Six Core Practices
● Visualise
● Limit WIP (Work In Progress)
● Manage flow
● Make policies explicit
● Implement feedback loops
● Improve collaboratively, evolve
experimentally