How to transform in a place where everyone says "cannot be done"?
summary
Claims a corporate R&D environment at AstraZeneca moves from months to repeatable deployments by cataloging 100s of components, standardizing templates, and automating releases. Implements Backstage scaffold templates, GitHub Actions that build images, run SonarQube and tests, and an Argo CD–style YAML-driven deployer that recreates clusters nightly. Adds automatic ServiceNow change creation tied to Jira fixed versions. Team scales from 2 to 8 in 7 months and adoption spreads by inner-sourcing and brown-bag demos.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and laziness
- 3:35Corporate world problems
- 7:43Tribal knowledge and obfuscation
- 10:15Journey to transformation
- 16:28Backstage and automation
- 27:26Overcoming 'cannot be done'
- 30:13Psychological safety and trust
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