Agile Evolution: An Enterprise transformation that shows that you can too

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Azure DevOps goes from multi-year waterfall to three-week sprints, opensourced the Azure DevOps task library and the Git Virtual File System, and scales to ~183,000 deployments per day with 96,000 engineers and 6.3M builds/month. A branching model uses a short-lived release branch per sprint, fixes land in master and are cherry-picked, and rollouts use a ring-based canary plus feature flags. End-to-end test time falls from ~48 hours to 3.5 minutes by shifting to unit-first automation and continuous delivery, boosting yearly production features from ~22 to ~300.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:26DevOps
3. 7:11What is DevOps
4. 9:45Epic failures
5. 10:08Poor quality products
6. 11:15How Microsoft became agile
7. 11:34Microsofts journey into DevOps
8. 13:18Trade off features for productivity
9. 14:38Azure stats
10. 15:26Change the story
11. 15:57Key habits
12. 18:05Listening to customers
13. 19:46Customer feedback
14. 22:09Visual Studio
15. 23:00Measure important KPIs
16. 26:37Iterating over pain
17. 27:13Twoyear cycles
18. 28:22Safety net
19. 28:42Stabilization phase
20. 29:23Technical debt
21. 29:47Threeweek sprints
22. 30:52Paying back technical debt
23. 32:22Technical debt is risk
24. 32:48Release vs Sprint
25. 34:13Feature Flags
26. 35:15What could go wrong
27. 35:34Microsofts policy
28. 36:07Production mindset
29. 37:08Transparency
30. 37:53Automation
31. 38:52Automate everything
32. 39:15Traditional model
33. 39:49Azure Devops
34. 41:04Big environments
35. 41:18Speed vs control
36. 41:55Alignment vs autonomy
37. 42:23Autonomy mastery and purpose
38. 43:49Team structure
39. 44:54Team size
40. 46:53Team forming exercises
41. 47:22Proportional representation
42. 47:50consort cadence
43. 49:42focus
44. 50:16alignment
45. 50:37stay in sync
46. 51:04Questions
47. 51:37Quality
48. 54:28Test plans
49. 55:43Test matrix
50. 56:19Cloud first
51. 56:54Incremental rollout
52. 57:57Learn from failure
53. 58:17One sprint a time
54. 58:28Progress always follows the J curve
55. 58:41What changed for the Azure DevOps team
56. 59:27One step at a time

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