Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, Lego and Scrum Game
In this workshop we will share a role-based simulation of DevOps culture using the scrum framework. This is a large scale activity that will include all attendees split into 2 to 4 scrum teams and will have team members adopt common scrum and operational team personas in a fun and interactive game.
Credit must be given first and foremost to the originator of this game Dana Pylayeva, this is a culture simulation that can be shared with any scrum team!
The outcomes for the players will include an understanding of DevOps, its roles and their inter-dependencies, the acquisition of T-Shaped skills, and the scrum teams journey of operational inclusion.
Oh and did I mention you get to play with Lego and eat Chocolate?
Outline/Structure of the Workshop
- Welcome and Introduce the topic - 10mins
- Game Setup, Rules & Role Selection - 15mins
- Sprint 1 Event (demonstrate scrum) - 10mins
- Sprint 1 Debrief - 5mins
- Sprint 2 Event (optimise scrum) - 10mins
- Sprint 2 Debrief - 5mins
- Introduce DevOps - 5mins
- Cross-training - 5mins
- Sprint 3 Event (devops evolution) - 10mins
- Final Aha! Moments - 5mins
Learning Outcome
- Learn to address a traditional common misalignment of goals of the 3 major groups in product development - customer, development and operations
- Experiment with decoupling of a sprint from a release by minimising batch size, increase release frequency, amplify feedback loops and move towards continuous flow of value
- Understand how widening individual skills within a development team to span all necessary work to get the job done as well inclusion of business and operational members can have a positive impact on the overall delivery process and help eliminate constraints
Target Audience
This workshop is for anyone working in an organisation that: use agile practices and principles, experiences upstream or downstream issues with collaboration, have issues with delivering working product, or the discovery of new work such as cyber vulnerability creates major disruption.
Prerequisites for Attendees
No pre-requisites
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Round 2 submissions must be submitted (not in draft) by 5pm AEDT on Tuesday the 15th of November.
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- Stepping stone to speak at another Regional Scrum Gathering or a Global Gathering.
About Scrum Australia
If you are not familiar with previous Scrum Australia events and what we envisage for the 2023 event, see the Scrum Australia website.
Session formats
- Experience report with Q&A 40 mins
- Interactive presentation 40 mins
- Interactive workshop 40 or 80 mins
Interactive presentation may be primarily a talk with slides or live drawn material. Our hope is that you will include at least a small amount of interaction e.g. anonymous poll, pair discussion.
Open Space sessions do not require submission through this process. Please bring your topics to the Open Space opening circle at the event.
Audience level
You can expect there to be a mix of experience levels at Scrum Australia from people starting out with Scrum and agile to experienced practitioners with many years of experience.
We encourage you to select the most advanced level that you believe would comfortably understand the material in your session from the following options. The assumption is that your session will be accessible to people with less experience than the level advertised.
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Breadth of topics welcome
We welcome topics that are far broader than Scrum and application context beyond software development. The material presented should however be compatible with a Scrum based agile environment and we encourage an explicit description of how participants could apply what they are learning to a Scrum based environment. For example, in a talk about the Kanban method you could spend a minute or two explaining how Kanban could be used within Scrum Sprints or be used as a portfolio wrapper for Scrum.
Tracks
There are four tracks to select from.
- Leadership and Culture
- Practices
- Agile Everywhere
- Product
Rowan Bunning
Sally Sloley
Jess Bates
