Delivering Devops at Sainsburys
- 1. Delivering DevOps Mike Dilworth – 8th October 2015
- 2. 2 Mike – brief introduction
- 3. 3 Sainsbury’s – some figures 24,000 161,000 3,000 23 1.2 million 707 215,000 597 24.5m 15.5m FTSE 100 A great place to work
- 4. 4 Market Changes • Underlying £681m profit is down 14.7%. • People shop more frequently. • Smaller basket sizes. • Customers seek convenience. • Less brand loyalty and greater use of discount stores. • Supermarkets sales are down. • Negative food inflation. • Smaller margins.
- 5. 5 Digital & Technology @ Sainsbury's Waterfall Own infrastructure Many functional silos Vendors & suppliers provide solutions and innovation OTS solutions highly customised No internal software development capability ITIL influence
- 6. 6 The observations Stuff gets delivered, but it takes a long time Delivery can not keep up with the speed of market change Processes are avoided resulting in shadow delivery methods Low levels of innovation Reduced technical capability D&T’s capability does not match Sainsbury’s market conditions
- 7. 7 Transformation ideas Outsource what you can’t add value too. Bring in-house things which when you do them well, or in which you innovate, can add value. Use utility computing. Build skills and competencies. Use autonomous self contained teams which are able to deliver end to end. Focus on small incremental changes and fast feedback loops.
- 8. 8 A DevOps strategy to support the transformation Increase throughput. Reduce WIP Deploy with zero down time Improve quality, predictability, validity & maintainability Culture of innovation
- 9. 9 Realisation of DevOps strategy design prod operatereleasetestbuildcode Agile development Continuous delivery DevOps Continuous integration Delivery pipelines 3 technical pillars of DevOps Infrastructure as code Monitoring and metrics
- 10. 10 Organisation and process Existing support team New DevOps design team Hiring and up skilling. Service transition. Incident & escalation. Release & change. Infosec. 3rd Party assurance. Full stack agile teams
- 11. 11 Where are we on the journey? DevOps generations Time Capability 2nd Gen DevOps, reusable tools, n- tier 3rd Gen DevOps, microservices 1st Gen DevOps, ad hoc 0
- 12. 12 End of presentation, but for Sainsbury’s its only the beginning We are hiring!
Editor's Notes
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