Doubling Engineering Productivity at eBay Through DevOps

Discover how eBay doubled engineering productivity through DevOps in this insightful conference talk from YOW! 2022. Learn about eBay's cross-organizational Velocity initiative, which focused on improving software delivery across the board. Explore strategies for breaking down silos between product engineering and infrastructure, measuring software delivery performance using the Four Key Metrics from Accelerate, and continually reducing build time, startup time, PR validation time, and deployment time. Gain actionable insights on relentlessly focusing on removing individual teams' impediments to fast flow and embedding experts directly in product teams to share learnings across the entire organization. Understand how eBay's approach, inspired by the Lean and DevOps community, led to doubling engineering productivity and fostering a collaborative culture. Discover the future plans for scaling this initiative and how other organizations can apply these lessons to their own DevOps journeys.

Intro
Problem statement
Why are we here?
Assessment
Measuring software delivery
Measuring eBay
Velocity initiative
Future
Outro