Leading the Transformation (Applying Agile & DevOps Principles at Scale)

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An 800-person firmware org halves cost from $100M to $55M while releasing 140% more products and shifting capacity for new features from 5% to 40%, claiming a sustained 2–3x productivity gain. The approach centers on enterprise continuous improvement with monthly objectives, executive morning metrics, trunk-based development, build-and-test pipelines, scripted environments, evolutionary database practices, automated UI tests with page-object patterns, deployment post-validation and targeted service virtualization to localize failures and keep the build green.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:39HP LaserJet Embedded Firmware
3. 2:14Agile DevOps Principles at Scale
4. 5:20Scrum vs Agile
5. 6:41Leading the Transformation
6. 7:50Enterprise Level Continuous Improvement
7. 9:24Executive Lead Continuous Improvement
8. 14:45DevOps
9. 17:21Find the offending code
10. 18:36Develop on trunk
11. 21:50Fundamentals
12. 24:13Test Automation
13. 28:22Continuous Delivery
14. 29:19Common scripts
15. 30:25Schema changes
16. 31:04Automated deployment
17. 33:11Building a large complex system
18. 36:33Keeping a green build

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