Chicago CD Summit: 3 Pillars of Continuous Delivery
1. Three
Pillars
of
Continuous
Delivery
Culture,
Processes
and
Tools
Andrew Phillips, VP Products | 19 Nov 2014
2. Three
Pillars
of
Continuous
Delivery
Culture,
Processes
and
Tools
“Lightning
Edition”
Andrew Phillips, VP Products | 19 Nov 2014
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About
Me
▪ VP Products for XebiaLabs
▪ Lots of enterprise software development on high-performance
systems
▪ Been on both sides of the “Dev…Ops” fence
▪ Active open source contributor and committer:
jclouds, Akka, Gradle and others
▪ Cloud, PaaS & JVM language fan (mainly Scala, Clojure)
▪ Regular meetup, conference etc. presenter
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About
XebiaLabs
▪ Leading provider of delivery automation software focused
on helping companies deliver higher quality software
faster.
▪ Reduce development applications costs
▪ Accelerate application time to market
▪ Bridge the gap between Development and Operations
Global
Customers,
Global
Success
and
more…
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Agenda
▪ Lightning Continuous Delivery Recap
▪ Tooling, Practices, Culture…how do they relate?
▪ Bootstrapping a CD Culture
▪ Crossing “Quick Win Chasm”
▪ Practical Examples
▪ Getting Started
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What
Is
Continuous
Delivery?
“Continuous delivery is a set of patterns and best practices that can
help software teams dramatically improve the pace and quality of
their software delivery.”
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What
Is
Continuous
Delivery?
▪ A delivery pipeline?
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What
Is
Continuous
Delivery?
▪ A delivery pipeline?
▪ A type of release process?
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What
Is
Continuous
Delivery?
▪ A delivery pipeline?
▪ A type of release process?
▪ An IT methodology?
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What
Is
Continuous
Delivery?
▪ A delivery pipeline?
▪ A type of release process?
▪ An IT methodology?
▪ A different way of doing business?
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Why
Continuous
Delivery?
▪ Competitive pressure
▪ Hot trend
▪ Clear business values
− Accelerate time to market
− Increase application quality
− Increase customer responsiveness
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Aside
1:
Continuous
Delivery
&
Agile
“Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early
and continuous delivery of valuable software.”
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Aside
1:
Continuous
Delivery
&
Agile
“Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early
and continuous delivery of valuable software.”
Principle #1 from the Agile Manifesto
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Aside
2:
Continuous
Delivery
&
Devops
▪ Flood of overlapping messaging in this space right now
▪ Analysts and new vendors piling on to the bandwagon
▪ Rather difficult to parse it all at present, especially if you’re coming at this now
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Aside
2:
Continuous
Delivery
&
Devops
▪ Flood of overlapping messaging in this space right now
▪ Analysts and new vendors piling on to the bandwagon
▪ Rather difficult to parse it all at present, especially if you’re coming at this now
▪ Key point: Whatever you call it, make sure you have some defined goals that
are intended to provide some measurable business value
▪ Happy to debate and discuss definitions over lunch!
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" Culture: set of values, beliefs and
traditions
" Practices: behaviours and actions that
derive from these values and beliefs
" Tooling: instruments used to carry out
the behaviours and actions
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Three
Pillars
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Three
Pillars
Culture
is
expressed
through
Prac<ces
carried
out
using
Tooling
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A
Bit
About
Culture
▪ Once it’s reached a cultural level: extremely resilient to problems
− If the tooling breaks, people will fix it
▪ Internal motivation to carry out the practices and make them work
▪ (Risk of groupthink, so tolerance of open minds is important
− Something for a lunchtime discussion)
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A
Bit
About
Culture
▪ Problem: culture is hard to impose from the top down
− Look at history!
▪ And most organizations are not at the point where a culture is in place
− They’re just starting out on their CD journey!
▪ So...what can we do about this?
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Bootstrapping
a
CD
Culture
▪ Let’s look at those three pillars a different way
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Bootstrapping
a
CD
Culture
Culture
is
expressed
through
Prac<ces
carried
out
using
Tooling
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Bootstrapping
a
CD
Culture
Culture
is
expressed
through
Prac<ces
carried
out
using
Tooling
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Bootstrapping
a
CD
Culture
Culture
whose
effects
give
rise
to
Prac<ces
enables
Tooling
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Bootstrapping
a
CD
Culture
▪ Key point here: inverting the causal relationships!
▪ Why start with tooling & practices?
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Bootstrapping
a
CD
Culture
▪ Easy to get up and running
− Certainly compared to culture!
▪ Low risk
− Largely free or low-cost tools
− “Skunkworks-able”
▪ Quick, demonstrable effects
− Go after the low hanging fruit!
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“Quick
Win
Chasm”
▪ A story…
− ACME Inc. has heard of this amazing tooling that can help automate their software delivery process
− Consultants come in a build a delivery pipeline
− Runs fine for a while
− Not easy to adapt to new projects, as the consultants have moved on
− Then some parts of the pipeline start to fail, and are switched off or bypassed
− …
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“Quick
Win
Chasm”
▪ Lesson: Tooling by itself only goes so far
− Even if it’s very reliable!
▪ Resilience comes from making this part of your DNA
▪ This Is Not Easy!
− Especially since the temptation is to see the initial improvements and stop there
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Crossing
Quick
Win
Chasm
▪ Five key points
− Get management buy in
− Find someone who’s “been there”
− Create champions
− Make things visible
− Communicate, communicate, communicate
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Practices
− Keep changes small
− Quality before functionality
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Practices
− Keep changes small
− Quality before functionality
− Put the test up front
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Practices
− Keep changes small
− Quality before functionality
− Put the test up front
− Everyone involved early
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Practices
− Keep changes small
− Quality before functionality
− Put the test up front
− Everyone involved early
− No more (code) than necessary
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Practices
− Keep changes small
− Quality before functionality
− Put the test up front
− Everyone involved early
− No more (code) than necessary
− Ongoing user dialog
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Practices
− Keep changes small
− Quality before functionality
− Put the test up front
− Everyone involved early
− No more (code) than necessary
− Ongoing user dialog
− Delivery tooling = serious tooling
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Culture
− We can always do better
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Culture
− We can always do better
− Our service, our features, our users
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Culture
− We can always do better
− Our service, our features, our users
− ‘Us’ includes the business
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Culture
− We can always do better
− Our service, our features, our users
− ‘Us’ includes the business
− Tools work for the team
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Let’s
Get
Practical
▪ Culture
− We can always do better
− Our service, our features, our users
− ‘Us’ includes the business
− Tools work for the team
− Nobody goes home if the build delivery system is broken
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Getting
Started
▪ Get a baseline: Value Stream Analysis
− Open mind: We Can Do Things Differently
▪ Define incremental goals
− No Ocean Boiling!
▪ Start with tooling
− Go after low-hanging fruit
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Getting
Started
▪ Testing and quality
− More investment and backfilling required
− Requires buy-in
▪ Adapt your architecture to allow for smaller changes
− Greenfield? Lucky you!
− Otherwise, will need to tackle this eventually
▪ Full-time business focus
− It’s about putting the business at the wheel!
− Often need some persuasion to actually drive…
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More
Info
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Get
In
Touch!
▪ Andrew Phillips
aphillips at xebialabs dot com
▪ Talk over lunch or at the XebiaLabs table
▪ Don’t forget to stop by the table for more information (& swag)
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Get
In
Touch!
▪ Andrew Phillips
aphillips at xebialabs dot com
▪ Talk over lunch or at the XebiaLabs table
▪ Don’t forget to stop by the table for more information (& swag)