Agile-Driven DevOps Workshop

1. The Case for Agile-Driven DevOps

• The heritage of Agile and DevOps
• The business case for DevOps
• Common Agile and DevOps principles
• Goals of Agile and DevOps
• Understanding the overall value chain
• Exercise: Defining your goals

2. Critical Principles of Agile & Scrum

• Effective and quick response to change
• Feedback loops
• Adaptation of work
• Cross-functional roles
• Continuous Integration
• Timeboxing
• Velocity tracking
• Linking work to end value
• Mindset and culture
• Exercise: Agile maturity

3. Transforming to Agile Culture

• Principles as foundation
• Principles translated to practices
• The critical role of culture
• What is a DevOps culture?
• Top practices for transforming culture
• A new way to fail
• Exercise: Assessing cultural profile

4. Sprints: Agile Practices Applied

• Planning
• Vision
• Roadmaps
• Running a sprint
• Maintaining a backlog
• Grooming a backlog
• Retrospectives
• Velocity and velocity tracking
• Stakeholder roles
• Exercise: An operational sprint simulation

5. Agile roles in DevOps

• Ownership
• Change management
• Operations
• Application owners
• Product owners
• Architects
• Administrators
• Executive sponsors
• Exercise: What's your agile role?

6. Agile Infrastructure

• Iterating operational work
• Scrum teams in Ops
• Unified IT retrospectives
• Designing infrastructure goals
• Matching infrastructure to application goals
• Cloud engineering: a primer
• Reducing skills-based silos
• Tools for implementing agile infrastructure

7. Kaizen and Continuous Improvement

• Schooling teams on entropy
• Common organizational goals
• The incremental approach to Kaizen
• How to drive the ethic into the team
• Signs of success and failure
• Exercise: Kaizen components: true or false

8. Kanban: Tracking Operational and Project Work

• The Kanban system
• Kanban roots: gaining perspective
• Visualizing work
• Push vs. pull stimulus
• Lean principles
• Work in Progress (WIP)
• Queues and buffers
• Bottlenecks
• Blocked Work

9. Waste and Application of Lean Principles

• Overproduction
• Work in Progress (WIP)
• Overburdening of teams
• Time available (idle states or waiting)
• Processing
• Inventory, stock, unused assets
• Handoffs and movement of work
• Defects
• Latent skill
• Exercise: Identifying waste

10. Scalability

• Linking business value to operational work
• Scaled Agile principles for increased capacity
• Automation and scaled infrastructure
• Prioritization
• Throttling operational work
• Dissolving operational silos

11. Going Back to Work with a Plan

• Identifying your goals
• Next steps
• Open forum and real-world discussion