This session will provide the Persistent Systems view on DevOps. Persistent is one of the top 25 technology services company in India where we run around 1000 projects a year. All aspects that need to be thought through before beginning the DevOps journey will be discussed. The beginning of the journey starts with the initiation steps which will be briefly touched upon. Further the three Ways of DevOps which is the Flow, Feedback and Continual Improvement will be explained. The technical practices associated with Flow, Feedback and Continual Improvement will also be looked at. Telemetry aspects in a DevOps Journey will be touched upon.

Just having the tools will really not ensure the success of the DevOps Journey. Culture and Mindset go a very long way in the success of the DevOps journey. What are these mindset aspects that need to be adopted would be put forward to the audience.

This session will present the case study done at one of the top 25 technology services in India where we run around 1000 projects a year. As we embarked on our DevOps journey we did a study on the ground level realities in a products vs services sector and saw the challenges there. A comparative analysis between these sectors on the ease of DevOps Implementation will be showcased. We would look at Mindset, Technology, Tooling & Automation and Metrics aspects and how they vary within sectors.

The instrument used to analyse the DevOps behaviors in the various sectors An comparative study between a legacy vs greenfield development area would be explored here. Recommendations relevant to each of the areas presented.

Contract and Agile ? Doesn’t really sound correct, right ?

However, there is no escape from contracts in the service industry where we deliver projects for clients. In this context, the intent of this talk is to describe the limitations of traditional contracts and how contracts for Agile projects need to be different from the traditional contracts.

Overall the talk will emphasize on the key principles of Agile contracting and what are the points that need to be considered when penning down contracts in Agile projects.

Digital transformation is the key for most enterprises and what better than Agile as a methodology for execution of any Digital Transformation program.

However, it is seen predominantly that an overdose of doing more and more of Agile rather than incorporating the Crux of Agile and BEING AGILE is the pattern. More often than not this leads to “Agile did not work for us” phenomena.

Through this talk I will take the participants through some common Agile Antipatterns and how to watch out for these especially in the Digital Transformation journey.