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Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide
Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide

Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide: Start your journey to successful adoption of CD and DevOps , Third Edition

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Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide

Understanding Your Current Pain Points

In Chapter 1, The Evolution of Software Delivery, you were introduced to ACME systems and given an insight into how it realized that there were problems with its software delivery process (severely impacting its ability to meet the expectations of its customers and deliver value to them), how it identified and addressed these problems, evolved, and after some hard work, determination, and time, adopted CD and DevOps ways of working to overcome them.

The story based upon a fictional business is pretty simplistic and linear to make it easier for you the reader to follow. Real life is never that simple, but there are a number of key points that were raised during the storytelling that do apply to real-life businesses. The most important of these for any business considering—or actively pursuing—the adoption of CD and/or DevOps...

Elephant in the room

Some of us have a very real and worrying ailment that blights our working lives, elephant in the room blindness—or to give it its medical name, Pachyderm in situ vision impairedness. Those inflicted are aware of a big problem or issue that is in their way, impeding their progress, efficiency, and willingness to engage and draining their morale. What do these poor souls normally do? They normally choose to either simply accept it or worse still, ignore it—depending on the size of the problem. Those that don't bury their heads in the sand, so to speak, then find ingenious ways to work around, circumvent, or avoid said problem by making very localized changes to how they work. Sometimes, at the detriment to others. In fact, they normally invest a lot of effort, time, and money in building these ingenious solutions and then convince themselves...

Defining the rules

With any examination, expose, investigation, or inspection there will be, to some degree, dirt that will need to be dug up—figuratively speaking. This is inevitable and should not be taken lightly or treated flippantly. The sort of questions that will be asked will include the following:

  • Why are things done in certain ways?
  • Who came up with this process in the first place?
  • Who makes the priority decisions to do one thing over another and what right to they have to make the decision?
  • When exactly are these decisions made?
  • Who owns the overall product delivery process?
  • Who owns the various steps within the process?
  • Has anyone previously questioned the process? If so, what happened?
  • Does anyone actually know how the process works end to end?
  • Why can't the management see the obvious issues and why don't they listen to us?

These types of questions...

Including (almost) everyone

What you need is information and insight from individuals who can actively contribute, are engaged, are ideally open to change (or at least would like to see things change for the better) and understand and agree to the aforementioned rules. These engaged contributors should come from all parts of the business—if they are involved in product creation and delivery, they should be considered. You will need a broad set of information and data to move forward, therefore you need to get a broad set of engaged contributors involved.

To ensure you can identify as many people as possible, you will need to establish a good network across the organization or at the very least access to those who already have one—especially if your organization is sizable as it's not practical to identify and be on speaking terms with everyone. You will normally...

Openness, transparency, and honesty

To truly get to the bottom of a given problem, you need to gather as much information and data about it as possible, so that you can collectively analyze and agree the best way to overcome or address it—you need to know how big the elephant truly is before you can expose it and remove it. The natural reaction of most senior management types—especially those in the higher MBA educated echelons—will be to then enlist a costly business change consultancy agency to run a closed-session top-level investigation with a handpicked select few from middle management to take part to produce a management report.

Although this well-trodden approach may provide some information and data, I would argue that it will not give you or the business what you need. In addition, during these types of investigations the environment is normally...

The great elephant disclosure

Let's presume at this point that you have overcome all of the challenges of getting people in the same location (physically and/or virtually), you have obtained buy-in from the various management teams, have agreed some downtime, and have a safe environment set up in a neutral venue. You're almost ready to embark on the elephant disclosure—almost. What you now need to do is actually pull everyone together and run the workshop(s) to capture the data you need.

To make things a little less daunting it may help to consider your overall end to end process as four distinct stages:

Four distinct phases of a typical end to end software delivery process

Breaking the overall process into these smaller stages can assist in mapping out the flow and structure of the workshop(s) you'll be facilitating. For example, if you decide to run an...

Summary

Throughout this chapter, you have been given an insight into the following aspects: how to expose problems within your product delivery process (what we're calling the elephant in the room), the challenges and benefits of using collaborative and engaging approaches to identify these problems, and some effective tools and techniques to help you break down the problems into easily identifiable chunks of work.

Now, you know how to obtain valuable information and data about your problem(s) and have some much-needed actions to work with. You also now know how to inspect. Let's presume these problems revolve around the waste created through long release cycles and a siloed organization. That being the case, you have a very clear objective that will almost certainly address the problems and deliver what the entire business needs. All you now need to do is pull together...

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Key benefits

  • Identify and overcome the issues that stifle the delivery of quality software
  • Learn how Continuous Delivery and DevOps work together with other agile tools
  • Real-world examples, tricks and tips that will help the successful adoption of CD & DevOps

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Over the past few years, Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps have been in the spotlight in tech media, at conferences, and in boardrooms alike. Many articles and books have been written covering the technical aspects of CD and DevOps, yet the vast majority of the industry doesn’t fully understand what they actually are and how, if adopted correctly they can help organizations drastically change the way they deliver value. This book will help you figure out how CD and DevOps can help you to optimize, streamline, and improve the way you work to consistently deliver quality software. In this edition, you’ll be introduced to modern tools, techniques, and examples to help you understand what the adoption of CD and DevOps entails. It provides clear and concise insights in to what CD and DevOps are all about, how to go about both preparing for and adopting them, and what quantifiable value they bring. You will be guided through the various stages of adoption, the impact they will have on your business and those working within it, how to overcome common problems, and what to do once CD and DevOps have become truly embedded. Included within this book are some real-world examples, tricks, and tips that will help ease the adoption process and allow you to fully utilize the power of CD and DevOps

Who is this book for?

Whether you are a software developer, a system administrator, an agile coach, a product manager, a project manager, a CTO, a VP, a CEO or anyone else involved in software delivery, you will have a common problem which is delivering quality software. This book has been written for anyone and everyone who wants to understand how to regularly deliver quality software to their customers without said pain.

What you will learn

  • Explore Continuous Delivery and DevOps in depth
  • Discover how CD and DevOps fits in with recent trends such as DataOps, SecOps, pipelines and CI
  • Understand the root causes of the pain points within your existing product delivery process
  • Understand the human elements of CD and DevOps and how intrinsic they are to your success
  • Avoid common traps, pitfalls and hurdles as you implement CD and DevOps
  • Monitor and communicate the relative success of DevOps and CD adoption
  • Extend and reuse CD and DevOps approaches
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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
The Evolution of Software Delivery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding Your Current Pain Points Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Culture and Behaviors are the Cornerstones to Success Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Planning for Success Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Approaches, Tools, and Techniques Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Avoiding Hurdles Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Vital Measurements Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
You Are Not Finished Just Yet Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Expanding Your Opportunity Horizon Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
CD and DevOps Beyond Traditional Software Delivery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Some Useful Information Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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