DevOps game marshmallow challenge

DevOps Game Marshmallow ChallengeMurughan Palaniachari

Who am I?Murughan PalaniachariRelease Manager & Heading DevOps @ EuromonitorWebsite/Bloghttps://elevate-org.com/LinkedIn https://in.linkedin.com/in/murughanTwitter@Murughan_P

Books influenced me towards DevOps Movement

Source: https://elevate-org.com/2016/12/14/top-10-devops-values/

What is DevOps by Gurus?

DevOps is not a goal, but a never-ending process of Continual Improvement.

Gene Kim’s 3 ways of DevOps

1. The principles of Flow 2. The Principles of Feedback3. The Principles of Continues Learning and

experimentation

Source: http://itrevolution.com/devops-handbookhttps://elevate-org.com/2016/11/28/what-is-devops-by-gurus/

DevOps Game – Marshmallow Challenge

To build the tallest freestanding tower with Spaghetti that will support the marshmallow.

Game was introduced by Peter Skillman.Tom Wujec has conducted this game in 70 work shops, he has conducted with the bigger group of 800 people.Source: https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower

Marshmallow Challenge – Kinder garden vs Business students

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Marshmallow Challenge – Winners

Marshmallow Challenge - Kinder garden vs Business students

Marshmallow Challenge– Kinder garden vs Architects & Engineers

Marshmallow Challenge - Architects & Engineers vs CEOs

DevOps Game Marshmallow Challenge – Mission & Goal

Product Owner Expectation: Build the tallest freestanding tower with Spaghetti that will support the marshmallow.

Supplies for each team

• 20 sticks of dry spaghetti• one yard of tape• one marshmallow

DevOps Game - Rules• Build the Tallest Freestanding Structure with just

20 spaghetti.• The Entire Marshmallow must be on top.• Each team should have a role of Development,

Database, QA, and Operations.• 18 min to build tower.• DevOps principles & practices have to be applied

while building.• At the end, one representative from each team

should talk about the Principles and Value of DevOps they have applied while building.• Evaluation is based on the DevOps Principles

applied and Product delivery.

DevOps Game Marshmallow Challenge with team

I have conducted this session @ Prowareness Bangalore through Software Architects meetup, around 90 team members participated and we had 9 teams.

DevOps Game Marshmallow Challenge – Sprint work We had 9 teams started to build tallest tower.

DevOps Game Marshmallow Challenge – Done stateBy 18 minutes teams have done with their product and getting ready for Retro.

DevOps Game Marshmallow Challenge - Retro time & WinnerA representative from each team Demoed quality product and shared the DevOps principles & practices they have applied while building.

The team who has applied most of the DevOps principles & practices and delivered quality product, they were the winners!

Learnings from game

• We need to be Agile.• Marshmallow is the “Assumptions” of a project. Assumptions play an important role

in development, assumptions has to be identified and analysed in the early stage of project.

• Everyone follows the same Culture.• Each team has members of Development, Database, QA, and Operations by this we

eliminating Silo teams.• Knowledge sharing happens among team members, this will enable Generalized

than Specialized team members.• Team members from DEV, Database, QA, Operations are involved from the start of

Project.• Everyone is responsible for delivering.• The team built trust with each other.

Learnings from game

• The team is communicating and collaborating at every point of a time.• Work is visible to everyone, the team has up-to-date information on the

status of the work so that if any WAIT is happening that can be addressed immediately and enable a fast flow of work from left to right i.e. Business to Customer.

• Valuing feedback as all the different department team members are in one team here, feedback from QA is being immediately incorporated.

• Reduced Batch size so that small work can be deployed quickly and frequently in order to decrease the overhead of QA testing at the end, Integration happens at the end and so on.

• The team is empowered to fail fast and continually learn from success and failure.

Thank youMurughan PalaniachariRelease Manager & Heading DevOps @ Euromonitorhttps://elevate-org.com/https://in.linkedin.com/in/murughan@Murughan_Pmurughan1985@gmail.com