Delivery of Things World 2016 - Day 2

... continuing with my notes from the second day:

• From oil tankers to speedboats by Jonathan Smart, Head of Development Services at Barclays (keynote):
• They had 400 internal standards (lots of regulation) and used waterfall.
• They are currently in the process into an agile organization. 800+ teams working with agile practices, 3x more stories finished than a year before. He showed a graph indicating a strong correlation that apps being deployed more often lead to less production incidents.
• Cultural changes may take years.
• Don't scale agile. Descale the work first.
• Shu Ha Ri.
• Disciplined Agile used as scaling framework (here and here you can find more information about this framework).
• Implement communities of practice.
• Story telling, training and coaching are essential.
• Leadership training.
• Head for technical excellence.
• Agile architecture (no monolithic architecture).
• DevOps is a practice, not a product.
• They implemented a simple control tool: Answer 20 questions (before: hundreds), the number of control points were reduced from 7 to 2.
• Blending not clashing (one size does not fit all): Be agile in adoption, sometimes different speed in adoption is required.
• Embrace continual change.
• Transforming application delivery for Continuous Innovation by Jonny Wooldridge, CTO at The Cambridge Satchel Company (keynote):
• "It's all about the code."
• Heavily invested in increasing excellence & craftsmanship with their move towards agility.
• Legacy applications can impede moving towards agility.
• Define and decouple your "pace layers".
• Watch out for corporate equilibrium: Enterprise equilibrium (wrong technology, wrong people, wrong frameworks, wrong 3rd party suppliers) tends to drive DevOps adoption backwards.
• Build new initiatives the right way (reduce complexity, reduce legacy code).
• Kill dependencies.
• Focus on APIs.
• Don't create new legacy (i.e. don't use legacy approaches just because they are quickly available, you have to actively invest into agile). 
• Accelerating DevOps adoption: Patton and Gandhi by Stephen Fishman, Senior Director, Platforms & Services at Autotrader (keynote):
• Never be ashamed to ask for excellence.
• Religiously strive for collegiality.
• How to persuade people being skeptic about agile transformations:
• Step 0: Assume positive intent.
• Step 1: Empathize.
• Step 2: Point to higher ground.
• Step 3: Wait.
• Step 4: Repeat.
• World Café Sessions (smaller groups of about 20 people discussed a certain topic for about 30 minutes; we had some good discussions about the integration of developers and ops people, the introduction of continuous delivery and agile methods):
• Analyzing Continuous Delivery: What are the advantages - big and small - that you can look forward to once you have Continuous Delivery in place? by Lars Bendix, Professor of Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science at Lund Institute of Technology.
• Ericsson Eurolab: World of DevOpsCraft by Almudena Rodriguez Pardo, Senior Scrum Developer, ICT Development Center Eurolab Aachen at Ericsson and by Norma Acevedo, Product Deployment Manager at Ericsson.
• Don’t build a golden prison – Dos and Don’ts for working with DevOps by Udo Pigorsch, DevOps System Manager at Axel Springer SE.
• Continuous Quality and Continuous Delivery: How to have both by Tobias Kutzer, Senior Solution Architect at Worksoft.
• Data-Driven DevOps to Improve Velocity, Quality, and Impact / Using Continuous Delivery to build products customers actually use by Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk.
• Screwing Up For Less by Stephen Hardisty, Director of Engineering at Rocket Internet (keynote):
• If people feeling comfortable, they get careless (see "risk homeostasis", also here).
• Embrace feature toggles.
• Make problems more obvious (i.e. visibility, wall screens).
• Automate all the things.
• Managers: No shouting! (I.e. no blaming.)
• Reduce risk by using technologies that are already established in your organization.
• Balancing the 3 pillars of DevOps - Managing people, process, and technology change to grow a DevOps culture with Stephen Hardisty, Director of Engineering at Rocket Internet, Jonny Wooldridge, CTO at The Cambridge Satchel Company and Dave Nolan, CTO at AppearHere (panel discussion):
• Topics addressed:
• Hire people with the right mindset.
• Establish culture and mindset.
• The right tools.
• Trust in the change.
• Gain speed and reduce time to market.

Panel discussion