How to form a DevOps team?

Abstract:

Did you ever worked within an operations team that was overwhelmed by firefighting? And late deployments and no time for improvements? Well, there is good news for you. You are not the only one. And it can be changed to the better.

Based on my experience at Nokia I show what might help; how an emerging DevOps approach succeeded to overcome a situation like this.

We will take a look on the 2-year journey of my DevOps team, and how it improved the delivery frequency and platform availability significantly. For us "Baby Step" improvements played a very crucial role.

We will see how the team changed over time, and take a look at its forming-storming-norming-performing cycle. Furthermore the interactions, tensions with the other teams are worth a glimpse, as well as the (positive) impact of the DevOps team on the organization around.

This talk will also cover how the interpretation of roles, responsibilities and job profiles changed notably over time

Speaker:

Alex' bread and butter comes from helping software companies to deliver to production faster.

Since 2011 he leads a DevOps/Delivery team at Nokia L&C in Berlin, and fosters Continuous Delivery, Agile, Kanban/Lean and Agile Testing.