Presented at DevOpsDays Atlanta 2013
DevOps has proven itself across many smaller organizations but large enterprises are usually slow to change. It can be a daunting task even identifying where to make changes since there are so many processes and organizational silos to get in the way. As a veteran employee of small, medium, and large enterprises I have figured out ways to drive organizational change based upon getting results. In this presentation I will describe my methods for creating change within and across organizations and provide specific examples of how to begin a meaningful shift towards making DevOps a standard practice within your organization. I'll detail some of the roadblocks to making DevOps a reality and explain how to overcome these obstacles.
Moving the DevOps Needle in Enterprise Organizations
1. Moving the DevOps Needle In
Enterprise Organizations
DevOps Adoption Business Value
2. About Me: Jim Hirschauer
@HirschOnAPM
• I’m a Performance Geek!!!
• Designed and Implemented Monitoring
Architecture for Wachovia Investment
Bank and Wells Fargo Managed Services
• Initiated cultural shift to proactive
monitoring.
• I’ve used many of the enterprise class
monitoring tools in existence.
• I currently live, work, and play in Idaho. 2
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This is Iowa, I don’t live here.
This is Idaho, I do live
here.
Right Here!
4. The DevOps movement is an attempt to
bring Development and Operations
together so that they can achieve the
effectiveness and efficiency that the
business deserves.
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9. Top Down
Pros
• Corporate
commitment
• Easier to implement
• Funded
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Cons
• Resistance to
change without
passionate
supporters
• Hard to get executive
mandate
• Lots of executive
mandates already
• Executive input
(Usually not good in
technical matters)
• Requires business
11. Bottom Up
Pros
• Passionate
supporters help
remove barriers
• Bypass road blocks
• Better end results
• Ability to change
and adapt.
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Cons
• Starts slower
• Lack of executive
support
• Lack of funding
• Fragmented without
strong leadership.
12. In my experience, the bottom up
approach yields better results over
time.
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14. Figure Out Who’s Interested
• Show
– How it will make their life better
– Benefits to company
– Tactical and Strategic
• Methods
– Lunch and Learn
– Social Media
– Intranet
– Staff Meetings
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38. Document your success
We successfully deployed XYZ tool and
were able to automatically deploy our new
code.
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39. Document your success
By automatically deploying our new code we
were able to eliminate risk of human error
during deployment and increase speed of
delivery by 50%. This will reduce
customer impact and increase speed of
delivery.
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DevOps has proven itself across many smaller organizations but large enterprises are usually slow to change. It can be a daunting task even identifying where to make changes since there are so many processes and organizational silos to get in the way. As a veteran employee of small, medium, and large enterprises I have figured out ways to drive organizational change based upon getting results. In this presentation I will describe my methods for creating change within and across organizations and provide specific examples of how to begin a meaningful shift towards making DevOps a standard practice within your organization. I'll detail some of the roadblocks to making DevOps a reality and explain how to overcome these obstacles.
Almost everyone in the US thinks that Idaho is Iowa. This slide is just to raise awareness of where my home state is and have a little fun to start things off. To be honest, I didn’t know where Idaho was before I moved there a couple of years ago.