Paving the road to effective software development

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sarahwells.dev Paving the road to effective software development Sarah Wells

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sarahwells.dev Paving the road to effective software development Sarah Wells

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sarahwells.dev We needed DevOps

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sarahwells.dev DevOps DevSecOps DevSecTestOps …

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sarahwells.dev Autonomous, cross- functional teams https://martinfowler.com/articles/talk-about-platforms.html

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sarahwells.dev DORA Core V2 (proposal), https://dora.dev/research Represents the most firmly established findings from DORA’s research

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sarahwells.dev https://dora.dev/devops-capabilities/process/ loosely-coupled-architecture/

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sarahwells.dev https://dora.dev/devops-capabilities/technical/ teams-empowered-to-choose-tools/

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sarahwells.dev Autonomy is great!

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sarahwells.dev Benefits of autonomy Can release on demand Can choose optimal tools Happier teams

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sarahwells.dev Autonomy is great! … but so is Standardisation

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sarahwells.dev Benefits of standardisation Lower complexity Lower risk Lower cost Easier to move between teams

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sarahwells.dev Paving the road Principles Going off- road

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sarahwells.dev Why you need to pave the road

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sarahwells.dev 2011: Mandatory platform, manual handoffs

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sarahwells.dev Introducing automation and DevOps

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sarahwells.dev No room for innovation

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sarahwells.dev Autonomous teams doing their own thing

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sarahwells.dev Too much autonomy, too much risk Security Cost control Operability

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sarahwells.dev Guardrails

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sarahwells.dev What happens when another team has to take over a service?

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sarahwells.dev If everyone works differently, moving people is hard

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sarahwells.dev Cognitive load is high

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sarahwells.dev Team Topologies: Designing an organisation for fast flow

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sarahwells.dev Paving the road

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sarahwells.dev Not mandatory

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sarahwells.dev https://charity.wtf/2018/12/02/software-sprawl-the-golden-path-and-scaling- teams-with-agency/

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sarahwells.dev Principles for building the paved road

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sarahwells.dev Build what people need

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sarahwells.dev Valuable Solves a problem they have Build what people need

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sarahwells.dev Own and support things long term

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sarahwells.dev Don't make people wait

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sarahwells.dev Discoverable: engineers can find out it already exists

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sarahwells.dev Documented: in a consistent way

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sarahwells.dev Self-service Most of the time, people don't need any help

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sarahwells.dev Make things easy to use

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sarahwells.dev Allow people to extend and adapt

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sarahwells.dev Help people do the right thing

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sarahwells.dev Build tools that are Safe: sensible defaults, small blast radius Secure and compliant Reliable

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sarahwells.dev Principles for building the paved road • Build what people need • Own and support things long term • Don't make people wait • Make things easy to use • Allow people to extend and adapt • Help people do the right thing

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sarahwells.dev CNCF Platforms white paper ● Platform as a product ● User experience ● Documentation and onboarding ● Self-service ● Reduced cognitive load for users ● Optional and composable ● Secure by default https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platforms/

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sarahwells.dev Going off road

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sarahwells.dev Save innovation for the stuff that’s unique to you

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sarahwells.dev “You have three innovation tokens” https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

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sarahwells.dev If the capability doesn't exist

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sarahwells.dev If the capability doesn’t meet the team’s requirements

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sarahwells.dev Make sure there’s a place to discuss tech changes with wide impact

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sarahwells.dev Must comply with the guardrails

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sarahwells.dev Wrapping up

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sarahwells.dev Paving the road helps balance autonomy and standardisation

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sarahwells.dev https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/02/21/what-is-developer-experience-a- roundup-of-links-and-goodness/ “organisations want developers to spend more time coding and less time thinking about and working on infrastructure”

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sarahwells.dev https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/02/21/what-is-developer-experience-a- roundup-of-links-and-goodness/ “Why would a developer put up with a poor developer experience when they can likely find a job that better aligns with their needs and preferences?”

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