ScalingDevOps

Scaling DevOps
We will explore-unlearn-relearnDiscuss consideration of DevOps Maturity,Compliance & Evolution
Canada DevOps Community of Practice
***What are the first 3 steps towards DevOps at scale?***
Gunjan Syal
Start with small teams
encourage skill development with a culture of fail fast fail often - then fix it
Support from leadership
As you approach scaled part: clarity across organization on what they want to achieve from DevOps
SteveZheng
Pilot Team, start small, technical practice first.
William Szepesi
automation is required for any DevOps implementation and more is needed when scaling
Peter Maddison
Remember the basics: Clarify your outcomes and define your indicators. Start small. Celebrate your wins.
William Szepesi
@pgmaddison Good approach Peter - and this would include starting with initial, achievable goals, so that there will be wins to build on
Garima Bajpai
Create a north star - Value , Assess the Challenge , Enact Change
Vishnu Vasudevan
adopt and adapt to cultural change, empower the team with the tools they need and managing risks at the individual level.
Canada DevOps Community of Practice
***When do you think is the right time to scale DevOps or optimize DevOps?***
Garima Bajpai
Right time to scale, don’t get caught up in complexity before the value
Gunjan Syal
To understand that we need to talk about what does a successful devOps project look like and then consider conditions for scaling it up- To me it’s not so much the right time but
knowing what conditions are needed for success and then,
what you need to get there
Peter Maddison
DevOps as a transformation of how your organization delivers value will scale naturally as the organization begins to understand and adopt new ways of working.
Vishnu Vasudevan
There is no such thing as right time. Optimization is a continuous process and scaling is done via feedback loops within the organization on what is working and what is not. when there is continuous feedback scaling becomes organic.
Peter Maddison
Start small and use those initial wins to drive communication across the organization. It is not just an "IT" change. How the organization organizes around technology delivery needs to change too.
SteveZheng
You need to tall enough to implement some of the DevOps practice.
Vishnu Vasudevan
optimization is otherwise fail fast, take smart risks.
Garima Bajpai
@vishnube continuous optimization
William Szepesi
Scaling DevOps should happen when there is potential for it to pay off, providing value that other solutions can not
Peter Maddison
Optimizing DevOps is intrinsic to the practices. Continuous learning and optimization is a part of growing your DevOps practices.
William Szepesi
Welcome everyone to the Scaling DevOps Crowd Chat!
Garima Bajpai
Right time to scale, don’t get caught up in complexity before the value
Canada DevOps Community of Practice
Good Morning Everyone!

Hope you brought your DevOps Game!
Here is the first question.


What do you refer to as DevOps?
Garima Bajpai
DevOps is a collective journey towards evolution of software practices
Gunjan Syal
Agreed with Garima. This is especially important during the pandemic because customer needs and regulations have been changing quickly and the businesses must be nimble to pivot and serve those needs.
Vishnu Vasudevan
it's a combination of cultural philosophies, practices,process governance, automations, tools that increases the ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity and better software and at the same empower the development and operations teams
Garima Bajpai
Its not to tool/job title or a specification .. from the grass root journey perspective
Peter Maddison
Generic answer: People, processes and tools working
together to enable rapid and continuous
delivery of value to customers.
SteveZheng
The tools chain and practice which can ensure the delivery.
William Szepesi
Good question! Agreement has not been found so I go Wikipedia:.
DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle & provide continuous delivery with high SW quality
Garima Bajpai
Welcome all!
Vishnu Vasudevan
Thank you! good morning & welcome everyone!
Peter Maddison
Morning! Welcome
Gunjan Syal
Good morning everyone - excited to be here to discuss #ScalingDevOps!