Identifying, collecting and structuring data from multiple sources in the software delivery process to meet your Strategic (Management), Operational (Project) and Execution (progress in the SDLC) reporting purposes
Quantifying your value contribution to software delivery is the key to being successful in the DevOps journey.
The Software Delivery Challenge
Finding the answers to the questions of improvement, business value, risk and “shippable status” of the code.
What are the trade-offs?
What is the cost of decisions?
What we do
- Provides a customised approach to identifying what information you require for successful software delivery with Lean, Agile and DevOps
- Gathering the information required using the following two filters:
- A filter that aids in pinpointing what data, indicators and other information are most valuable to gather for any identified report
- The second filter helps you to respond as efficiently as possible to changing reporting needs
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- Formulate a decision framework
- Determine value criteria
- Evaluate and improve
Tools we use
We start with what you have
- Software Quality Engineering Dashboard (SEQD)
- Reporting tools
Deliverables and Artefacts
- A framework that allows for reporting changes
- Required reports – type and content
- Feedback loops to ensure that the information is continually utilised effectively
- Automated data collection and collation
WHY - the value we bring
- An understanding of the cause and effect of results in your software delivery
- Reporting only what is relevant to the stage of your project
- Optimises the effectiveness and efficiency of gathering information as only relevant information is collected
- Provides information that supports different levels of management decision making
- Provides easy assessment of the current situation
- Keeping the focus on the desired results and outcomes
- Enabling early corrective action.
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DevOps Personal Success Plan in action
An example of how value mapping is applied in the context of DevOps. Told as a story of a Quality Intervention for a feature team. This is a “live” example and represents the average situation we encounter.
Performance Appraisals to Personal Success Plans Why change for DevOps
The approaches to software delivery have changed, and will continue to change, with DevOps, Agile and Lean as key drivers of the HOW change will happen.
As a result, the IT skill requirements of 2018 will differ from the past 10 years.
We kick off our journey of Personal Success in the world of Lean, Agile and DevOps.
I will get to that as soon as I have this code live
An example of how value mapping is applied in the context of DevOps. Told as a story of a Quality Intervention for a feature team. This is a “live” example and represents the average situation we encounter.
From Performance Appraisals to Personal Success Plans
Is there value in Performance Appraisals? Our approach has delivered an unequivocal YES. This is a story of the evolution of our performance appraisals. By addressing the Why, How and What of performance management we are able to deliver on the culture change with DevOps, Agile and Lean.