The Nitty-Gritty Practices of Agile Coaching for DevOps - PDF document

AW15 ¡ Agile/ ¡DevOps ¡Transformations ¡ Wednesday, ¡November ¡6th, ¡2019 ¡11:45 ¡AM ¡ The ¡Nitty-­‑Gritty ¡Practices ¡of ¡Agile ¡ Coaching ¡for ¡DevOps ¡ Presented ¡by: ¡ Allison ¡Pollard ¡ and Amit Bansal Improving ¡ Brought ¡to ¡you ¡by: ¡ 888 -­‑-­‑-­‑ 268 -­‑-­‑-­‑ 8770 ¡ ·√·√ ¡904 -­‑-­‑-­‑ 278 -­‑-­‑-­‑ 0524 ¡-­‑ ¡info@techwell.com ¡ https://agiledevopseast.techwell.com/ ¡

Allison ¡Pollard Allison ¡Pollard ¡helps ¡people ¡discover ¡their ¡agile ¡instincts ¡and ¡develop ¡their ¡coaching ¡ abilities. ¡As ¡an ¡agile ¡coach ¡with ¡Improving ¡in ¡Dallas, ¡Allison ¡enjoys ¡mentoring ¡others ¡ to ¡become ¡great ¡ScrumMasters ¡and ¡fostering ¡communities ¡that ¡provide ¡ sustainability ¡for ¡agile ¡transformations. ¡Allison ¡is ¡also ¡a ¡Certified ¡Professional ¡Cov Active ¡Coach, ¡a ¡foodie, ¡and ¡proud ¡glasses ¡wearer. ¡ ¡ ¡ Amit Bansal As a senior consultant with Improving, an agile software consulting company headquartered in Plano, Texas, Amit Bansal assists teams in making a successful transition to cloud technologies. He is a sports fanatic and believes in living life to its fullest. Amit recently went skiing for the first time in his life. When he is not daydreaming about traveling to different parts of the world, Amit enjoys watching movies with his wife and girls, working out at the gym, reading, and learning new technologies (yes, that is one of his passions).

The nitty-gritty practices of agile coaching

What is the goal of Agile? Move Quicker? Get more stuff done? Save Money? User Feedback! We want lots of it!

How often is your Scrum team releasing to production? Everyday? Weekly? Monthly? Yearly? I don’t know hopefully soon?

Allison Pollard As an agile coach with Improving in Dallas, Allison Pollard helps people discover their agile instincts and develop their coaching abilities. Allison is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach , a foodie , and proud glasses wearer .

Amit Bansal Amit Bansal assists teams in making a successful transition to cloud technologies . He is a sports fanatic and believes in living life to its fullest. Amit recently went skiing for the first time in his life. When he is not daydreaming about traveling to the different parts of the world, Amit enjoys watching movies with his wife and girls, working out at the gym, reading and learning new technologies (yes, that is one of his passions). 5

Companies adopt Agile to get better results—not for the sake of adopting Agile. How can I evaluate if my coaching is achieving better results? 6

Generative Culture

IT performance predicts organizational performance 2017 State of DevOps Report

The team scoreboard and the metrics of change Discuss: How does strong performance in this • Lead Time Deployment delivery capability help for Changes Frequency organizations? Imagine your team is a high • performer in this metric—you are deploying to production multiple Mean Time times a day. What does it feel like? Change Fail to Percentage Resolution What changes or practices could a • team experiment with to improve this metric? From Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren

Lead Time for Changes How long it takes to go from code commit to code successfully running in production for the primary service or application they work on From Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren

Deployment Frequency How often their organization deploys code for the primary service or application they work on From Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren

Mean Time to Resolution How long it generally takes to restore service for the primary application or service they work on when a service incident (e.g., unplanned outage, service impairment) occurs From Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren

Change Fail Percentage Percentage of changes for the primary application or service they work on either result in degraded service or subsequently require remediation From Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren

Continuous Improvement How can we get better? Version control Make flow of work visible Test data management Identify Empowered teams Opportunities Deployment automation Test automation Shift Left on Security Measure Plan for Results Improvement Trunk-based development Continuous integration Limit work in process Loosely coupled architecture Visual management Execute the Change Work in small batches Gather customer feedback

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Contact Us Allison Pollard allison.pollard@improving.com http://www.allisonpollard.com/ Amit Bansal amit.bansal@improving.com