Data DevOps Adoption Plan

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Contents

• Current Standings

• Adoption Plan

• How do we measure?

• Initial Steps

• Challenges

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Current Standings
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Continuous Business Planning Collaborative Continuous Testing Continuous Deployment Continuous Feedback
Development

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Adoption Plan

• Continue upskill and coaching of engineers to agile practitioners – with

minimum 10 coaches in Data Continuous
• Lead BT investigation and adoption of Database DevOps tool Business
Planning
• Innovate using containerisation where possible to improve development
and deployment practises
• Improve collaboration and code re-use across the platform
Continuous Collaborative
• Central logging & monitoring platform for use by Dev and Ops Feedback Development

6 C’s
of
• Teams DevOps maturity assessed on number of 6 C’s currently being
implemented – KPI’s to prove effectiveness on next slide Continuous
Monitoring
DevOps Continuous
Testing
• New projects to launch hitting minimum 2 of the 6 C’s – hitting 4 out
of 6 after 6 months
• Existing projects to implement minimum 2 of the 6 C’s by EOY
Continuous
Deployment

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How do we measure? X = Major Factor
o = Minor Factor

Continuous
Collaborative Continuous Continuous Continuous Continuous
KPI Business
Development Testing Deployment Monitoring Feedback
Planning

Time to Delivery from Requirements (Cycle Time) X X o X - -

Time to MVP deployment X X - o - -
Deployment Success Rate - X X - o -
Service Availability & Production Issues/Bugs - - X - X o
Deployment Frequency - X o X - -
Mean time to Recovery (MTTR) - - o X X -
Application Usage o - - - X X
Blue Optima Coding Efficiency - X X X - -

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Where do we get the data?

KPI Data Source

Time to Delivery from Requirements (Cycle Time) DCS Front Door (requires change)
SharePoint/Jira

Time to MVP deployment DCS Front Door (requires change)

Jira/Jenkins/SharePoint

Deployment Success Rate Jenkins/ABAD

Service Availability & Production Issues/Bugs Bridge Cases & Service Monitoring (Nagios/ELK)

Deployment Frequency Jira/Jenkins/HPSM

Mean time to Recovery (MTTR) Bridge Cases & Service Monitoring (Nagios/ELK)

Application Usage Service Monitoring (Nagios/ELK)

Blue Optima Coding Efficiency Blue Optima

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Initial Steps

• Pull out the required data in order to determine a suitable goal to work towards in the next quarter.
• If data isn’t currently readily or easily available call it out.
Data Baseline • Timeframes: Data collected by COP 7th December, Targeted Relative Change agreed by 12th December for Q4 to action.
and Targets

• Assess your delivery cycle and understand where most of your time is currently being spent – e.g. requirements
gathering, packaging deployments, deploying to prod etc.
Identify • Work on introducing new ways of working or tooling in order to reduce this time and hit the above agreed upon
Bottlenecks targets.

• In our push to a more Agile and DevOps oriented way of working we will have a lot of scope to bring in new toolsets
and processes. Actively try to learn what tools do and how you could look to bring them into your stack.
Upskill & • This could be tools like Jenkins, Docker, Rundeck, Ansible, Selenium, ELK…
Implement • Fortnightly Calls to track progress, Microsoft Teams set up for collaboration and issues, Acting Consultant

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Challenges
Lack of Experience
• Lot of inexperience across our workforce
in full Agile and DevOps practises
• Make sure you attend the IBM-led
coaching sessions for a solid base
understanding
• Reach out to other more experienced
colleagues or teams to see how they
have made progress
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Technical Stack
• Our choice of technologies is somewhat
difficult to implement a lot of the
DevOps principles such as testing, builds
and deployments
• We are looking at how we can use
Database DevOps tools to help with our
large Oracle DB estates with tools like
Flyway and Liquibase
• Look at how Docker might be able to be
used to improve dev and deployment
practises for some of our integrated
tools like OBI or RTD
Culture
• “We’ve tried Agile 5 times already”
• Change is difficult to manage and
encourage whilst also maintaining the
day-to-day
• Time investment must be made to both
upskill and implement these new ways
of working
• There needs to be understanding and
buy-in from all stakeholders to make this
a success
• Make your customers, ASG, DBA’s etc
aware of what changes your trying to
make and how it can benefit all parties
BT Toolchain (Latest)

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Targeted Data Toolchain Tools that Data can choose, define and drive for all BT

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