Welcome to the year 2025! Check out our new pipeline!

By Ken Mugrage

Elevator Pitch

The year is 2025, and we’ve just launched our latest continuous delivery pipeline. It wasn’t easy, but using a balance of better management techniques and the newest technology we’ve finally got the whole company aligned to the same goals.

Description

It took a couple years, but we’ve finally done it. We’ve gotten rid of almost all of the waste in our process, automated the right things and stopped doing the wrong things. As always, getting the people aligned was the hardest part, but some of the technology advances in the last few years really helped!

In this talk we’ll go over what we learned after the great Kubernetes world domination tour of 2020. Some of the highlights without totally spoiling the surprise:

  • We’ve enabled the product teams to focus on products
  • We’re using machine learning and all kinds of other cool stuff to make our pipeline as self healing as our applications
  • We’re using real time customer metrics to automatically raise the profile of important items in our backlog.

And much more!

Notes

This talk might be fictional… or it might not.

What would our organizations look like if we found a magic fix to silos and broken communication? What if developers didn’t have to care if it’s a serverless function or a massive database? What if we used real business metrics to drive what we’re going to work on next?

Let’s forget about all the reasons it won’t work and talk about how it all magically did, in just a few years.