SPA Conference session: 10 Releases a Day and No Anguish - Continuous Delivery for Humans | |||
| One-line description: | Case study and interactive exercises showing how one team made the process and culture changes necessary to move to dramatically speed up the release cycle | ||
| Session format: | Case Study [read about the different session types] | ||
| Abstract: | Geckoboard's small dev team was making little visible progress and was full of strife, despite a carefully curated backlog, 4 standups/day, and long planning sessions. In two months, we dumped the meetings and moved to continuous delivery, with most tasks defined, coded, and released in one day. We used Elephant Carpaccio and Action Science methods to jointly design processes, divide our work into thin, user-facing slices, and achieve internal commitment to the new approach. I will explain how we accomplished this, with a chance for participants to try out some of the techniques during the session. Attendees will come away with new approaches to both continuous delivery adoption and - perhaps more important - approaching the people side of technological change. | ||
| Audience background: | Audience members should have been on at least one software delivery team (in any role, from tester to manager, developer to designer to devops). They don't need any other experience to benefit. | ||
| Benefits of participating: | Participants will come away with new approaches to both continuous delivery adoption and - perhaps more important - approaching the people side of technological change. | ||
| Materials provided: | Slides and further reading. | ||
| Process: | After an initial story-telling presentation by Squirrel, the group will do two exercises that let them experience some of the techniques used to achieve the changes at Geckoboard. | ||
| Detailed timetable: | 00:00-00:30 - Telling the story of Geckoboard's transformation 00:30-00:45 - First interactive exercise, story slicing using "elephant carpaccio" 00:45-01:00 - Second interactive exercise, designing a conversation about team change 01:00-01:15 - Questions and wrap-up | ||
| Outputs: | Squirrel will summarise the results of the session - including the Geckoboard story and any interesting experiences or results from the two exercises - on http://douglassquirrel.com . | ||
| History: | Not previously presented | ||
| Presenters | |||
| 1. Douglas Squirrel Squirrel Squared Ltd |
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