© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Enter Your Presentation Title HereSubtitle - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elitNameDate

Building Brilliant TeamsHow we used the Spin/Merge to start, sustain, lead DevOps Teams

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.2

Agenda

• Separation and Merger Story

• Expanding the Culture

• Building DevOps Talent

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Spin-Merge Challenge

3

$4.1B*Public Sector

$8.2B*Commercial

Public Sector Financial Software

Corporate Software, Hardware,

Data Centers,Networks

IT SYSTEMS

Public Sector Administrative

Minimal IT

CorporateTax

TreasuryContractsHuman

ResourcesFinance

(CFO, Controller)

IT

Business Functions

$4.1B*Public Sector IT

Services Company

SPINCO

$5.5B* Public Sector IT

Services Company

TransitionServices

Agreements

$1.4B*SRA

* TTM revenue heading into spin/merge

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Migration Targets, Approach

4

• Physically move workloads to 2 new Data Centers

• Build New CSRA Software Defined Network

• WAN cutover• Build IT Staff & Capability,

Interim Policies• Build a new Security

Architecture• Resolve Underlying

Architecture Issues

• Move all x86 Workload to Amazon Cloud

• Extend CSRA Network to AWS

• Use Racemi to Perform Server Image Copies

• Use IBM for Lotus Notes Hosting

• Replicated 38 Subscription/ SaaS Instances

CSRA IT Capabilities Cloud

• Minimum Viable Capability• Shadow IT Discovery (40+)• Lotus Notes Applications• Negotiate ~500 Vendor &

License Agreements• 16 Releases• Immovable SEC Deadline!

Application Migration

Once in a lifetime opportunity to rethink and rebuild everything

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Two-Part Move to Integrated Architecture

5

Legacy Final

Shared: Resources, Services, Trust

Interim

Legacy CSC (now CSRA)

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Challenges

• How to build the new culture of DevOps• How to build a talent pipeline• How to grow the skillset

6

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.7

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Who you hire

Hiring Questions:• Tell me how you learn new skills?• Talk about a recent problem or defect

you had to troubleshoot?• What on your current program do you

wish you could automate? How would you do it?

8

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Incubator

Leverage CIO to build delivery Teams Talent Pipeline

University Partnerships

InternalCIO Projects

Go To Market

External Delivery

One Team, One Goal, One Mission for:• Training and Development• Consolidated Management• Work Allocation

Building expertise

Careergrowth

• Senior Developer• Developer• Developer• Tester• Sys Admin/DevOps

• Solution Architect• Technical Architect• Developer• Sys Admin/DevOps

• Senior Developer• Developer• Developer• Tester• Sys Admin/DevOps

Learning Pods

Hackathon Events

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Space to Learn

• Using Free/Cheap Vendor/Tools Training • Access to AWS & Azure Sandbox• Self-Building Tool Pipeline

– All Open Source: RedMine, Git, Jenkins/Maven, Vagrant, Selenium• University and Community College Partnerships• Slack time in schedule for learning• Mentorship/Coaching/Peer Learning• CEO Recognition for obtaining new skills

10

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Example: The CSRA Agile Cohort Group

• Training DevOps minded leaders

• Nominated existing team leaders

• Group of 5 + Agile Coaches

• Variety of roles and diversity of thinking

• Build the connections across roles

• Geographically diverse group (virtual meetings)

• Learn through training others

• Asked for deeper dives, reading and research

• Content outside the usual boundary of ‘Agile/DevOps’

• How to Motivate, How to lead change, How to coach

• Borrowed idea from Agile Alliance 2015 Workshop – Leveraged what was already built by others

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Credit: Agile Passionfruits

• Thanks and credit to Renee Troughton who not only presented this at Agile 2015 but spent time with us to share her program

• We hope to pay it forward here at DOES16# !

12

Renee Troughton (@AgileRenee)

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

CSRA Cohort AgendaWeek Content

1 What it is to be me/How I got to be MeLearning models (Shu-ha-ri, 70/20/10, Unconsciously incompetent quadrant), champion modelAssignment allocation – Pick an Agile/DevOps Foundations Book

2 Discuss book first impressions“What Agile/DevOps mean to me”

3 Training: Problem & solution analysis models (Mind mapping, fishbone, A3, 5 whys, 6 hat thinking, ritual dissent, force field analysis)Root cause on a teammates problem

4 Assignment 1 Book Report OutSelect Assignment 2 Focus area (Topic Deep Dive)

5 Training: Effective Change Management/Facilitation

6 1:1 Coaching time for Assignment 2

7 Training: Visual Management (Gemba time)Assignment 3: Make an update to your current visualization

8 Assignment 2 Brown Bag peer reviews

9 Visual Learning Wall Assignments: Brief what you changed on your wall, best visualization improvementValue Stream Mapping Techniques

10 Conduct Topic Brown Bag/Coach Feedback

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

What environment you provide

Architecture Purpose built for DevOps• Watched Agile/DevOps teams work• Work anywhere• Re-configurable for teams growth• Room for standups• Sharable common areas (encounter space)• Respect unique roles spaces (SOC/NOC)

14

Jim N

oetzel,The Forum N

ews

http://theforumnew

s.com/

© 2016 CSRA. All Rights Reserved.

Questions?