This case study was excerpted from the second edition of The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis and Nicole Forsgren, PhD. HMRC, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, is the tax collection agency for the UK government. In 2020, HMRC distributed hundreds of billions of pounds to UK citizens and businesses in an unprecedented financial support package that would eventually see around 25% of the entire UK workforce supported by public money. HMRC built the technology … [Read more...]
Shifting Security Left at Fannie Mae
This case study has been excerpted from the second edition of The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren, PhD. Fannie Mae has a more than $3 billion balance sheet and helps finance approximately one in four homes in the US as of 2020. At Fannie Mae, safety and soundness is part of their mission. They’ve experienced crises before. With a low risk tolerance, their challenge was ensuring that security strengthened everything they did. DevOps … [Read more...]
Biz and Tech Partnership toward Ten “No Fear Releases” Per Day at Capital One
This case study has been excerpted from the second edition of The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis and Nicole Forsgren, PhD. Over the last seven years, Capital One has been undergoing an Agile/DevOps transformation. In that time, they’ve moved from waterfall to Agile, from outsource to insource and open-sources, from monolithic to microservices, from data centers to the cloud. But they were still facing a big problem: an aging customer servicing platform. … [Read more...]
Creating a Win-Win for Dev & Ops at CSG
This case study has been excerpted from the second edition of The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis and Nicole Forsgren, PhD. After successfully improving releases between 2012 and 2015, CSG further evolved their organizational structure to improve their day-to-day operational stance. At the DevOps Enterprise Summit in 2016, Scott Prugh, Chief Architect and VP Software Engineering at the time, spoke about a dramatic organizational transformation that combined … [Read more...]
How to Integrate Operations Into the Daily Work of Development
In the Where to Start with DevOps series, we have explored a variety of ways to think about your DevOps transformations. We broke down the three key components to consider in choosing a starting place: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With. We covered how value is delivered to the customer and how to improve flow: Understand the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow. We learned about developing the habits and capabilities in people and the workforce as a means of facilitating these … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 3: How to Design With Conway’s Law in Mind
Over the past 2 blogs in this series, we have discussed the necessary steps to start your DevOps transformation. We covered the three key components to consider in choosing a starting place in this post: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With We covered how value is delivered to the customer and how to improve flow in this post: Understand the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow This week, based on the newly updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, we are … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 2: Understanding the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow
In our last post, we highlighted how to identify a value stream to which you can begin to apply DevOps principles and patterns in this post: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With Our next step in our DevOps transformation, based on the newly updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, is to gain a sufficient understanding of how value is delivered to the customer, by evaluating what work is performed, by whom, and what steps we can take to improve flow. In this blog … [Read more...]
Where to Start with DevOps Part 1: Selecting which Value Stream to Start With
Choosing the best value stream for your DevOps transformation deserves careful consideration. Not only does the value stream you choose dictate the difficulty of your transformation, but it also dictates who will be involved in the transformation, how you organize teams, and how you can best enable those teams and the individuals within them. In the first part of our Where to Start with DevOps series, adapted from the fully updated and expanded second edition of The DevOps Handbook, we'll look … [Read more...]
The Three Ways Revisited: The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition
Wondering if The DevOps Handbook is for you? First edition authors, Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis developed this book for anyone looking to transform their IT organization—especially those who want to make serious changes through the DevOps methodology in order to increase productivity, profitability and win the marketplace. In the newly released second edition, Nicole Forsgren has added new material, research, and statistics that prove DevOps really does work. It is … [Read more...]
DevSecOps Implementation at the US Navy: Not for the Weak of Heart
This case study was provided as a supplement to the second edition of The DevOps Handbook. It was written by Harold C. Young, Product Owner, and Brent Brockman, Senior Software Developer, U.S. Navy. --- The US Navy is in the middle of a massive information technology modernization, to include new hardware suites, software architectures, and continuous integration/continuous delivery software factories. To realize the full potential of the IT supporting Sailors and Marines worldwide, the Navy’s … [Read more...]
