What team configuration is right for DevOps to work? Devs doing Ops? Ops doing Dev? Everyone doing a bit of everything, or a special new silo doing Docker and Jenkins in the corner of the room? In this talk, Matthew Skelton joins speculation with practical in-the-trenches experience to arrive at some working 'team topologies' for effective DevOps.

1. Long live the DevOps team!
(effective team topologies)
Matthew Skelton
@matthewpskelton
Skelton Thatcher Consulting, skeltonthatcher.com
Tues 26th May 2015,
DevOps Exchange meetup group, London #DOXLON

2. http://devopstopologies.com/

4. Anti-Type A – Separate Silos
Dev Ops

5. Anti-Type B – Separate DevOps Silo
Dev OpsDevOps

6. Anti-Type C – “We Don’t Need Ops”
Dev OpsDevOps

7. Anti-Type D –
‘DevOps’ team as another Dev team
Dev Ops
DevOps

8. Anti-Type E –
DevOps as the new SysAdmin team
Dev OpsDevOps

9. Anti-Type F –
Ops embedded in a Dev Team
Dev
Ops
HT: Matt Franz
(@seclectech)
DevOps

10. Anti-Type G – Dev-DBA gap!
Dev OpsDBA

11. Financial services
Online payments
Software tools
Publishing
Car hire
Legal software
Where?

13. Type 1 – Smooth Collaboration
Dev Ops[DevOps]

14. Type 2 – Fully Embedded
Dev Ops

15. Type 3 – Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Dev Ops[DevOps]

16. Type 4 – DevOps-as-a-Service
Dev Ops[DevOps]

17. Type 5 – Temporary DevOps Team
Dev OpsDevOps

18. Type 6 – ‘Facilitating’ DevOps Team
Dev OpsDevOps

19. Type 7 – SRE Team (Google)
Dev Ops
[DevOps]
SRE
HT: @kwdhinde

20. Type 8 – ‘Just run my Containers’
Dev Ops[DevOps]
HT: @jascbu

21. Type 9 – DB capability in Dev
Dev OpsDBA
[DevOps]
DB Dev

22. Type 9 – DB as a Service
Dev OpsDBaaS
[DevOps]
DB Dev

23. Enterprise – multiple types
HT: @EricMinick, IBM

24. https://twitter.com/EricMinick/status/517335119330172930

25. There is no ‘right’ team topology,
but several ‘bad’ topologies for
any one organisation

26. http://devopstopologies.com/

27. team transformation
systems thinking
operability
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~10 years’ experience
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28. Matthew Skelton
@matthewpskelton
Skelton Thatcher Consulting
skeltonthatcher.com
Thank you