Panel Discussion on

“IT Ops for Continuous Delivery”

Tathagat VarmaVP, Strategic Process Innovations

[24]7 Innovation Labs

Chandra Elango Johnson Jose Ritendra Banerjee Sridhar Vijayraghavan Tathagat Varma (moderator)

Panelists

Chandra is responsible for Enterprise Applications Shared Services at VMware . In this role, he manages a global team of 300+ people that are responsible for UI/UX Development, Enterprise Applications Integrations Development, Performance Engineering, QA and Application Support.

Chandra joined VMware, Palo Alto in 2008 and relocated to start the IT Applications group in Bangalore 5 years ago. He has played a number of leadership roles within IT Applications group and has a strong track record of delivering key customer facing applications.

Prior to joining VMware, Chandra worked at Cisco Systems and The Gallup Organization and has over 16 years of IT industry experience. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, Seattle and an MBA from San Jose State University, San Jose. Chandra is based in Bangalore.

Chandra ElangoIT Director, VMWare

Johnson is responsible for Process, Systems and Datacenter for engineering and Engineering tools for Cisco’s R&D division. Johnson drives end to end product development workflow and architecture for Cisco development process, systems and software release which include Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid.

Johnson completed his Bachelor degree in Electronics and Communications from Mangalore University, MBA from University of Wales UK , and Venture Capitalist Executive from University of California Berkeley. 15 years of experience at Cisco Systems, Johnson has lots of credit for his work towards making development and testing workflows simple, productive and scalable with growing need for simplicity and flexibility.

His thought leadership and management has created paradigm shift in engineering organizations, that creates best quality products for customers of Cisco Systems, which is heading towards becoming #1 IT company in the world. Before Joining Cisco Systems Johnson was worked with Novell Inc. 

Johnson JoseDirector Engineering, Cisco

Riten is Co-Founder of a Global Finishing School, Founding President of Scientrix Asia, a strategy execution consulting established with the ex-CEO of Mercedes Benz.

His previous stints include being Head of ETE at Cathay Pacific Airlines; Sr.VP and Head-Asean for Maveric Systems; VP, Co-Founder and Global Head of Satyam’s Business Consulting Group. Prior to Satyam, Riten was involved with Connectivity (as Managing Partner), QAI (Co-Founder and Head of the Organization Practice that focussed on Strategy, Change and Knowledge Management issues with technology clients), Arthur D.Little (as Chief Consultant and Head Operations of their India networked entity, COSMODE) and KPMG (as Supervising Consultant) in Consulting Practice building roles. He has global experience of having worked in and consulted with clients across markets-300 plus clients in over 20 countries

Riten is an Advisory Panel member and speaker for Quality, Tech and Assurance events and conferences such as CII, NASSCOM, IQPC, ISB, Marcus Evans, On line Panel member for McKinsey Quarterly on assurance and technology, and Co-author of 2 globally best selling books business books on KM.

A past researcher with Profs at HBS (he is a member of the Harvard Club of India), Columbia and IIM, he is also the Awards Panel member of the global standards Board for Testing-ISTQB, as well as Global Online Alumni Coordinator at KPMG. He was recently featured as an Honored Member in the Stanford Who is Who Black Book. Riten's recent Life Book I AM LOSING SIGNAL has been a bestseller out of the US.

Ritendra BanerjeeCo-founder and CEO, SALT

Sridhar has been with IBM for over 6 years now, and in the IT field overall for 25 years. During this period, he has held key roles in leading the Sales & Marketing, Distribution and brand building across industry verticals and technologies.

In his current role, he is responsible for the business operations and growth of IBM Rational software in India/South Asia region. His team in Rational is focused on helping IT organizations and service providers accelerate software delivery by extending Lean and Agile practices across the entire software value chain.

Prior to joining IBM, Sridhar has had stints with organizations like Oracle, PeopleSoft, Ramco Systems and Digital. Sridhar is an engineering graduate from NIT Kurukshetra, and lives in Bangalore with his wife and two daughters.

Sridhar Vijayaraghavan Country Leader IBM Rational Software, IN & SE

The Challenge!

http://dev2ops.org/2010/02/what-is-devops/

The Result!

https://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/macvittie/Windows-Live-Writer/1024-Words-The-Operations-Butterfly-Effe_7AFE/devops%20effect_2.png

Development + Operations = DevOps “The practice of operations and

development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support.”

“Dev team supports operational requirements such as deploy scripts, diagnostics, and load and performance testing from the beginning of the cycle; and ops team provides knowledgeable support and feedback before, during, and after deployment.”

So, what is DevOps?

Dev + QA + Ops = DevOps

Extending agile thinking through the end…

http://blog.exoplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/06-Devops-Cycle.png

CultureAutomationMeasurementSharing

DevOps is all about CAMS…

https://www.getchef.com/blog/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/

It’s Not “NoOps” It’s Not (just) Tools It’s Not (just) Culture It’s Not (just) Dev and Ops It’s Not (just) a Job title It’s Not Everything!

What is NOT Devops!

http://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/

Is DevOps only for WebOps? What about SecDevOps? What’s next…?

Questions

DevOps Movement…

http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/devops2.png

http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-anyway/

http://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/ https://www.getchef.com/blog/2010/07/16/w

hat-devops-means-to-me/

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/what-exactly-is-devops/240009147

http://dev2ops.org/2010/02/what-is-devops/

References