How to Scale Cloud Adoption whilst building a world class Developer Experience

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1. How to Scale Cloud Adoption
   whilst building a world class
   Developer Experience (DevEx)
   Presented by: Hibri Marzook • Principal Consultant
   Ruchir Sanghavi• Account Principal
   

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   Hibri Marzook
   Principal Consultant
   Helps teams using ideas using technology.
   Likes the challenge of using Public Cloud and
   Continuous Delivery to help teams deliver at a sustainable
   pace. Likes to use systems thinking to navigate the
   challenges of complexity
   @hibri
   www.hibri.net
   

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   Ruchir Sanghavi
   Account Principal
   Helps build a great engineering culture.
   Has a passion for how Developer Experience can
   accelerate Public Cloud Adoption to help teams adapt.
   Advocate for adopting best engineering practices and
   enabling transformation with a DevOps, Agile and Lean
   approach
   @ruchirsanghavi
   

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4. What is DevEx?
   Developer Experience (DevEx) point-of-view forces the organisation to focus on the
   developer journey to optimise software delivery, and tackle productivity.
   

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5. Look Ma! No hands
   

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6. Who are the Devs in DevEx?
   ● Do you build the platform?
   ● Do you build on top of the platform?
   ● Do you operate the platform?
   ● Do you build/run/own things that run on the
   platform?
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7. The Wall of Confusion
   

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8. Impact of a poor DevEx
   Cochran (2021)
   

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9. Developers will find a workaround to help them deliver
   Make it easier for devs to do the right thing, safely
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10. 1. Understand boundaries
    and interactions
    

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13. Understand the boundaries
    

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14. Understand Team Interactions
    

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15. Build your shared responsibility model
    

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16. Shared responsibility in action
    

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17. 2. Enable Continuous
    Delivery by default
    

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18. The Walking Skeleton
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/liverpoolhls/
    “A Walking Skeleton is a tiny implementation of
    the system that performs a small end-to-end
    function. It need not use the final architecture,
    but it should link together the main architectural
    components. The architecture and the
    functionality can then evolve in parallel”
    Alistair Cockburn
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    Deploy all the way
    to a Production
    environment
    

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20. Get to Real Users Quicker. Only Prod Matters
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    https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/974530841190608897
    

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21. Pay attention to ..
    ● Time spent on-boarding
    ● Time spent waiting between transitions to environments
    ● Cycle times
    ● Number of times a team has to interact with another team
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22. 3. Pay attention to
    feedback loops
    

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24. The Simplest Feedback Loop is a Conversation
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25. Optimize Feedback Loops, Not Pipelines
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27. 4. Enable discovery,
    visibility and self-service
    

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28. Give Developers Visibility
    ● Don’t lock developers out of the Cloud Portals
    ● Provide sandboxes for devs to play around
    ● Read only access to production environments
    ● Access to metrics, alerts and non-sensitive logs
    ● Allow teams to make their own dashboards
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29. Leverage RBAC
    

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30. Use developer portals
    

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31. Scaling Cloud Adoption
    and DevEx
    

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32. What makes a Good DevEx?
    ● A good DevEx reduces the friction in using Cloud (and entire route-to-live!), in the context
    of your org
    ● Encourages exploration of Cloud features
    ● Developers bring what they learn outside, into the org
    ● There is always a safe, fast path to deliver business value for end customers
    

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33. Enabling Developers -The important bits
    ● Add guardrails - not roadblocks
    ● CI/CD - faster feedback loops
    ● Safe innovation space - trial and fail-fast
    ● QE Strategy - automation in testing
    ● Communities of Practice - culture of learning
    ● Start small - State of DevOps 2019: Templating methodology is one of the most
    successful in Transformation
    

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34. A good Developer Experience
    creates an environment of
    psychological safety
    

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35. A good Developer Experience
    reduces the cognitive load for a
    team
    

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36. References
    Cochran, T. (2021) Maximizing Developer Effectiveness. Available at:
    https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.html (Accessed: January 11, 2021)
    

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37. Questions?
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