Experiences joining Agile
and ITIL® for DevOps
Unicom DevOps Summit, 26th March 2015, London
#unicomdevops
Rob Thatcher, Skelton Thatcher Consulting
Agile (Scrum), ITIL®, DevOps
Aligning Scrum and ITIL®
Focus on feedback
Why?
• Building service management from scratch in Agile
organisation
• Digital transformation : software moving from on-
premise to Saas, building service management and
Operations approach
• Software delivery and operations strategy, Agile
with Service management and DevOps initiative
Terminology
Agile
Agile
Iterative, early delivery
Collaboration with stakeholders
Respond to changes
“Working software”
Agile
Commercial cannot specify all details
We do not know how users will react
Hypothesis-driven feature development
Agile
Allows us to explore a problem domain
Reduced need for analysis
Makes space for learning
Acknowledges that needs evolve
Gaps in Agile (?)
Operational features
Software as ‘service’ vs ‘product’
Secondary users
(as practised by many organisations)
IT Service
Management
ITSM
Effective management of IT services
Services, not products
Ongoing lifetime
ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of AXELOS Limited
ITIL
(?)
“service desk”
“enterprise”
“cumbersome”
“anti-agile”
ITIL®
A library of good practices for ITSM
Not a prescriptive framework!
Continual improvement
Ongoing services, not finished s/w
ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of AXELOS Limited
Agile, ITIL®
A shared focus on working software
Iterative improvement
Collaboration
Observations
Anti-ITIL sentiment seems
widespread
Perception of Bureaucracy
‘Belief’ that Agile will fix all..
ITSM Purpose Misunderstood
ALL or nothing ITIL approach
*Missing ‘Continual Service
Improvement
Aligning Agile and ITIL®
Feedback in Agile (Scrum)
Feedback in ITIL®
Feedback in ITIL®
Focus on feedback
Feedback
Improve output quality
Plan – Do – Check – Act
Agile and ITIL®
Mapping Agile & ITIL® to PDCA
DevOps feedback
Gene Kim, http://itrevolution.com/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/
DevOps feedback
Gene Kim, http://itrevolution.com/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/
DevOps feedback
Gene Kim, http://itrevolution.com/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/
Feedback
“A culture of continual
experimentation and learning”
– Gene Kim
Experiences joining Agile and ITIL for DevOps
Focus on feedback
Feedback is essential for effective software
Agile: feedback during dev
ITIL®: feedback during operation
DevOps: feedback during dev and operation
Experiences joining Agile and ITIL for DevOps
Recapitulation
Agile, ITIL®
Complementary, not conflicting
Iterative improvement
Focus on working software
Agile, ITIL®
Focus on feedback loops
Shorten the feedback cycles
Encourage collaboration
Further reading
Agile and ITIL: and how they integrate
[BCS]
http://bit.ly/BCSAgileITIL
Best practice in the cloud
[Axelos]
http://bit.ly/CloudITIL
Thank you!
http://skeltonthatcher.com/
enquiries@skeltonthatcher.com
@SkeltonThatcher
+44 (0)20 8242 4103
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