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Applied Industrial DevOps

By Josh Atwell, Ben Grinnell, Suzette Johnson, Harry Koehnemann, Dean Leffingwell

Practical Guidance for the Enterprise

As DevOps continues to challenge the status quo and improve business outcomes for software systems, many of the world’s larger enterprises are working to identify how to scale these practices across large, complex systems composed of hardware, firmware, and software.

In this follow-up to the 2018 paper Industrial DevOps, we take the original guidance eight supporting principles and the subsequent definitions one step further by applying the principles in the context of a hypothetical example using autonomous cars and then relating it back to those governing principles.

Our intent is to help readers better understand the applicability and need for Industrial DevOps in different solutions beyond those that are strictly software

  • Publication Date 2019
  • Pages 30

Features

  • Debunks Myth

    This paper debunks the myth that DevOps-style rapid iteration and improved flow only apply to software systems, not software + hardware systems.

  • Expert Authors

    This paper is written by experienced practitioners who have worked developing modern cyber-physical systems.

  • Clear Guidance

    Provides eight recommendations (principles) to bring DevOps principles and practices into complex cyber-physical systems.

  • Case Study

    This paper illustrates its theories through a clear case study of a fiction company building cyber-physical systems in the automotive industry.

About the Resource

As DevOps continues to challenge the status quo and improve business outcomes for software systems, many of the world’s larger enterprises are working to identify how to scale these practices across large, complex systems composed of hardware, firmware, and software.

In this follow-up to the 2018 paper Industrial DevOps, we take the original guidance eight supporting principles and the subsequent definitions one step further by applying the principles in the context of a hypothetical example using autonomous cars and then relating it back to those governing principles.

Our intent is to help readers better understand the applicability and need for Industrial DevOps in different solutions beyond those that are strictly software

Josh Atwell
Ben Grinnell
Suzette Johnson
Harry Koehnemann
Dean Leffingwell
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Josh Atwell

Josh Atwell

Multi-disciplined marketing and technology leader who has moved from hands on technology to leading marketing and advocacy teams to improve customer enablement and engagement.

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Ben Grinnell

Ben Grinnell

Evangelist for modern IT practices that help organisations use their technology to learn & act fast, safely and at scale

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Suzette Johnson

Suzette Johnson

Dr. Suzette Johnson is an award-winning author who has spent most of her career in the aerospace defense industry working for Northrop Grumman Corporation. Suzette was the enterprise Lean/Agile transformation lead. In this role, she launched the Northrop Grumman Agile Community of Practice and the Lean/Agile Center of Excellence. She has supported over a hundred enterprise, government, and DoD transitions to and the maturation of Lean-Agile principles and engineering development practices. She has also trained and coached over four thousand individuals on Lean/Agile principles and practices and delivered more than one hundred presentations on Lean/Agile at conferences both nationally and abroad. Her current role is as Northrop Grumman Fellow and Technical Fellow Emeritus, where she continues to actively drive the adoption of Lean/Agile principles with leadership at the portfolio levels and within cyber-physical solutions, specifically within the space sector. As a mentor, coach, and leader, she launched the Women in Computing, Johns Hopkins University Chapter; the Women in Leadership Development program; the Northrop Grumman Lean-Agile Center of Excellence; and the NDIA ADAPT (Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams) working group. She received a Doctorate of Management at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focused on investigating the impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and Agile engineering environments. She am also a Certified Agile Enterprise Coach and Scaled Agile Program Consultant/SPCT

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Harry Koehnemann

Harry Koehnemann

Harry Koehnemann, Scaled Agile Inc., is a methodologist and SAFe Fellow. He helps organizations build and deliver large, complex systems faster, more predictably, and with high quality using SAFe. He has spent the past two decades working with large system builders in aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries to apply Lean/Agile principles to their engineering practices, including systems engineering practices, quality management, and compliance.

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Dean Leffingwell

Dean Leffingwell

Cofounder and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile, Inc.

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