D2-5 Michele Vuerich, Andreas Renggli - Improving Time to Market: The New Speed of DevOps in a Corporate Environment

SIX has started the transformation to DevOps in 2015, being one of the first larger businesses in the Swiss financial sector to do so. The presentation will show the journey of one of the DevOps teams – the approach, the results and the learnings on the way from traditional “silo’ed” organization with waterfall methods to a new cross-functional, agile team, with a focus on improving speed by eliminating waste and through automation.

About our Company: SIX operates a competitive infrastructure for the Swiss financial center, catering to a broad, international client base. Its four business areas provide a comprehensive range of services in the areas of securities transactions, financial information processing and cashless payment transactions.

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1. Improving Time to Market The New Speed Of DevOps In A Corporate Environment Michele Vuerich & Andreas Renggli DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 1
2. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide We are…. 2 Head Application Support Market Data, with over ten years of experience in Market Data Sector as Linux Engineer, Software Tester and Application Support Head Automated Input System, with over ten years of experience in agile software development Michele Vuerich DevOps Pioneer Application Development Andreas Renggli DevOps Pioneer Application Support
3. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide We are not …. 3
4. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide We are SIX 23.7 million financial instruments are covered in the SIX data universe. 10 million transactions with credit and debit cards are processed by SIX every day. 3,150 billion francs is the amount SIX manages as central securities depository for Swiss securities. 2000 times faster than the blink of an eye. SIX Runs the fastest Trading Platform 4
5. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide SIX - For a stable and efficient financial market infrastructure 5 4000 people working for SIX in 36 locations in 25 countries. 3,100 billion francs is the amount SIX currently manages as central securities depository for Swiss securities. 160 billion francs flow backwards and forwards in interbank payments each day. 20 million financial instruments are covered in the SIX data universe. 700 engineers and operators are providing the software applications to run the business of SIX. 1930 the company was founded to provide a stock exchange ticker.
6. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide DevOps Travel log 6 We love to deliver yesterday what impresses our customers tomorrow. We collaborate in cross functional teams and help each other to improve Teams take ownership for their products over the whole lifecycle We automate repetitive tasks wherever possible We have working software on every stage any time, incl. monitoring We do software-architecture We use one repository We won't rest until we haven’t eliminated all unnecessary things We inspire and motivate our colleagues We employ scalable infrastructure we created a vision we defined our principles we wear our shirts It’s all about mindset and attitude! we started a movement to convert all 700 engineers and operators into a DevOps organization.
7. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide Start of the MD DevOps journey 7
8. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide Our Mission 8
9. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide Results and Goals after one Year 9 ​Joined Functional Teams into one that now works together even closer and on the same Floor ​Business gets additional value out of one Team ​Simplified End2End Change Process ​Automated Software Deployment ​Increased speed by factor 2.5. From 60d -> 20d throughput.
10. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide Dev & Ops on one Floor 10
11. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide New DevOps-MD Process 11
12. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide Success Stories 12
13. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide Impediments 13 Cultural Change is not Easy Leaders could easily fall back into old behaviors Establish Self organized Teams Business needs to follow the Agile way Stop thinking in roles Reward the step out of their comfort zone
14. DevOpsDays, 4. Mai 2017 Slide Success factors and Tools 14 Full support from our Management Dev and OPS Nominate strong Leaders as DevOps Pioneers Make it easy for people to do the right thing Give room for evolvement and trust Decide locally (team decides) Recurring retrospective Handle conflicts directly and in an open way Celebrate success Have fun
15. ​We build it – we run it – we love it ​«culture eats strategy ​for breakfast, ​we are hungry» Peter Drucker