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Design a DevOps Strategy

Greenfield & Brownfield

Greenfield projects
- Brand new, lacks any constraints imposed by prior work.
Brownfield projects
- Development and deployment of new software systems within the immediate presence of existing (legacy) software applications/services

Greenfield vs Brownfield Ops

Brownfield	Greenfield
Slow change, but reliable & scalable	Fast change, innovative and more tolerant of bugs
Maintaining workloads across on-premise data centers	Maintaining workloads across externally sourced infrastructures
Not cloud platform enabled	Cloud platform enabled
Waterfall release cycles	Agile development cycles
Legacy, monolithic tools	New, composable tools
Legacy, serial processes	New, collaborative processes

Project Metrics and KPIs

Faster Outcomes
- Deployment Frequency
  - Increasing the frequency of deployments is often a critical driver in DevOps projects.
- Deployment Speed
  - As well as increasing how often deployments happen, it’s important to decrease the time that they take.
- Deployment Size
  - How many features, stories, and bug fixes are being deployed each time?
- Lead Time
  - How long does it take from starting on a work item, until it is deployed?
Efficiency
- Server to Admin Ratio
  - Are the projects reducing the number of administrators required for a given number of servers?
- Staff Member to Customers Ratio
  - Is it possible for less staff members to serve a given number of customers?
- Application Usage
  - How busy is the application?
- Application Performance
  - Is the application performance improving or dropping? (Based upon application metrics)?
Quality and Security
- Deployment Failure Rates
  - How often do deployments (and/or applications) fail?
- Application Failure Rates
  - How often do application failures occur, such as configuration failures, performance timeouts, etc?
- Mean Time to Recover
  - How quickly can you recover from a failure?
- Bug Report Rates
  - You don’t want customers finding bugs in your code.
  - Is the amount they are finding increasing or decreasing?
- Test Pass Rates
  - How well is your automated testing working?
- Defect Escape Rate
  - What percentage of defects are being found in production?
- Availability
  - What percentage of time is the application truly available for customers?
- SLA Achievement
  - Are you meeting your service level agreements (SLAs)?
- Mean Time to Detection
  - If there is a failure, how long does it take for it to be detected?
Culture
- Employee Morale
  - Are employees happy with the transformation and where the organization is heading?
  - Are they still willing to respond to further changes?
- Retention Rates
  - Is the organization losing staff?
Lead time vs. cycle time

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