Build a DevOps Culture - Microsoft's Journey to Adopt an Agile Mindset and DevOps Culture

Explore Microsoft's transformative journey to DevOps in this conference talk from NDC Conferences. Discover how 90,000 engineers at Microsoft adopted an Agile mindset and DevOps culture, revolutionizing their approach to software development and service delivery. Learn about the challenges faced during cultural change, the implementation of a sharing-focused environment, and the strategies employed to manage multiple feature teams while maintaining a unified, continuously integrated source of truth. Gain insights into Microsoft's five key habits for success, including customer-centric approaches, strategic measurement, embracing failure as a learning opportunity, and prioritizing transparency and automation. Delve into topics such as Agile at scale, aligned autonomy, efficient planning methods, and effective pipeline management. Understand the importance of trunk-based development, comprehensive testing strategies, and maintaining a security-first mindset. Acquire valuable lessons from Microsoft's DevOps journey and learn about their future focus areas in this informative presentation.

Intro
What is Tupelo, MS world-famous for?
Accelerating Delivery with DevOps
Azure DevOps
The journey so far
Five habits we've learned so far
Listen to our customers
You get what you measure Don't measure what you don't wan
Build-Measure-Learn
Failure is an opportunity to learn
Be Transparent
No such thing as 'partial automation
Automate completely
Security Mindset - Assume Breach
Agile at Scale with Aligned Autonomy
Teams
Planning
How do you stay in sync?
Sprint Mail – Per Epic (Current Practice)
Managing the pipeline
Do Not Incur Debt
Release Flow Using Trunk Based Development to avoid Merge Debt
Tests against pull request
CI: Green Means Green, Red Means Red
Created a "Non-Denominational" Test Taxonomy
Test portfolio over time
What's next?