Agile2013 Learning To See: The Practical Application of Lean in DevOps

Learning to See
The Practical Application of Lean in
DevOps
Robert Benefield
EvolveBeyond, Ltd
rbenefield@evolvebeyond.com

Business Outcomes
Make, Save, Protect
Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013

Release to market faster
Improve speed and responsiveness
Ensure a smooth, trouble-free service
Make – increase revenue

Lower costs for setting up &
maintaining services
Reduce infrastructure & people
needed to run services
Save – reduce costs

Eliminate Outages
High-performance, scalable service
Respond rapidly to problems
Protect – revenue & market

If you are going too fast and ops
can’t keep up, it won’t matter
Ops is essential, but…

High friction

Siloed thinking

Defensive and obstructive

Opaque

Align Ops Outcomes to
Business Outcomes
Create transparency
Make it flow
How do we fix this?

PERHAPS LEAN CAN HELP

War Manpower Commission
Training Within Industry (TWI)

MacArthur Brings
Deming and Lean to
Post War Japan
Do
CheckAct
Plan
Toyota autonomation

Visual
Management
Continuous
Flow
Just In Time
Continuous
Improvement
Collaboration Autonomation
Walking The
Gemba
Commander’s
Intent
Intuitiveness
Lean Principles

Learning to See
Walking the GembaRobert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013

OHM Energy

Who are they?
What is important to them
Risk appetites
Internal vs External
Understand the communities

Speed & Accuracy
Reliability & Safety
Community drivers

Within Ops
End-to-End
Alignment & transparency

Visualize Workflow
Employ Information Sherpas/Fire Wardens
Use A3 Problem Solving
Create Value Stream Maps
Exploit Information Radiators
Work Board
Accepted Scheduled
In
Progress
Blocked Done
How lean helps you see

GETTING ORGANIZED

Move from Fire Fighting to Fire Prevention
Understand proactive/reactive ratios
Make causes visible
Move towards prevention
Queuing theory

• Ringfence Fire Prevention
– Fires aren’t a desired business outcome!
– Keep focus (and disruptions to a minimum)
• Make fires and their sources visible
– Firemen can become unintentional arsonists
– Expedite means it is a fire!
• Reduce flammable fuel
– Reduce batch sizes
– Big batches can become all-engulfing infernos!
Create the fire line

QUEUE MASTER AND WORKFLOW

Team
Team
Team
Team
Unscheduled
Queue
Queue Master
Clarification
Queue
Prioritized
Queue
Task
Task
Task
Task
Work Board
Accepted Scheduled
In
Progress
Blocked Done
Visualize the workflow

Incoming to Workflow
Makes sure that tasks are clear, correct, and
sized appropriately
Makes sure tasks have the right priority
Unscheduled
Queue
Queue Master
Clarification
Queue
Prioritized
Queue
Task
Task
Task
Task
Queue master

Looks for bottlenecks in queues
Facilitates
Notes patterns for discussion
Can take on tasks if idle, but lower priority
Queue master

All work goes into flow
via the Queue Master
Work is prioritized
by the Queue Master
Rules

Week long iterations (at most!)
Queue Master position should
rotate at regular iterations
Iterations

Review queues and workflow
Go through blocked tasks
Review flow problems
Archive Done
Team iteration review
Great place to go over A3s!
Retrospective

Handover of Queue Master hat
Choose which improvement items to
action
Review any key upcoming/scheduled
activities
Sort out any change alignment challenges
Planning

INFORMATION SHERPAS AND
FIRE WARDENS

Move from reactive
to proactive and predictive
Align Organizational Focus
Alignment at speed

Schwerpunkt
John Boyd
Intuitiveness

Fire Warden
Spot arsonists and fire
hazards
Coordinate cross
functional fire prevention
Embedded Ops Leads

Information Sherpa
Ensures information flow
Aligns tools, processes and
outcomes
Embedded Ops Leads

IMPROVE THE FLOW

DevOps and Service Engineering
Continuous Delivery
Continuous
Integration
Automated
Deployment
Environment
Configuration
Management
Workflow and Service
Transparency
Kanban/
Scrumban
Dashboarding
and
Instrumentation
Cross
Functional
Working
Elastic
Services
Architecture
Loose
Coupling
Design
Building
Resilience
In
DevOps Ecosystem

Total Cost of Ownership
People Intensity
Risk
Metrics that matter

A3 thinking

Find information gaps and bottlenecks
Prioritize automation & architectural targets
Improve agility & alignment
Value stream mapping

Information radiators

Source Code
Information sources

Build trends
Test trends
Information sources

Ops
• Workflow
• Incidents
• Performance
Accepted Schedule
d
In
Progress
Blocked Done
T12
T12
T12
T12
T34 T19 T9
T16
T1
2 T2
2 T4
4 T5
4T6
2 T72
Information sources

Information is powerful
Information brings focus & alignment
Information helps decision making
Information wants to be free

Automate to improve flow and transparency
Automate to reduce people intensity & friction
Automate to instrument & find defects early
Don’t hide problems
Don’t lose touch with reality
Autonomation

THE TALE OF THE BILLING DATABASE

Walk the Gemba and understand the
ecosystem
Visualize the flow
Instrument and let information go free!
Get Intuitive
Continuously improve
Learn to see!

QUESTIONS?
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