The Enterprise DevOps Challenge

Explore the challenges and strategies for implementing DevOps in large enterprises through this comprehensive conference talk. Delve into the complexities of adopting continuous delivery and agile concepts across organizations with multiple dependencies, teams, and varying degrees of agility. Learn about key patterns and anti-patterns for implementing DevOps pipelines, addressing issues such as competing interests, security concerns, and policy gates. Discover the importance of people, processes, and tools in overcoming obstacles to DevOps adoption. Gain insights into effective approaches like starting with pilots, understanding bottlenecks, and implementing exception policies. Examine crucial metrics for measuring success, including Mean Time Between Failures and time between red and green states. Equip yourself with practical knowledge to navigate the enterprise DevOps landscape and drive successful transformations in large-scale organizational environments.

Introduction
Enterprise DevOps
Challenges
Guinea Worm
What is a huge challenge
What is the root cause
Personal motivation
Personal ability
Trust
Support
No Structural Motivation
Structural Ability
Influence
Change
Influence Factors
Transformations
Middle Management
Automation
Behavior Organization
Start with Pilots
Pilots provide two things
If this works
Knowledge sharing
We have no idea
Application pilots
Next steps
Endtoend view
Understand the bottleneck
Look at the overall time
Example
Two parallel pipelines
Policy
Tiger Teams
Exception Policy
What is a Policy
Measure the Opposite
Good Metrics
Mean Time Between Failures
Red vs Green
Time Between Red and Green
Other Possible KPIs