Enterprise DevOps - The Challenges of Scaling DevOps to Fortune 500 Companies

Abstract:

Implementing DevOps principles is challenging enough on its own. But large IT enterprises bring a unique set of challenges and roadblocks that make implementing DevOps principles even more difficult. This presentation will discuss those challenges that are prominent in large IT enterprises and discuss some solutions.

At IBM, we often encounter Fortune 500-sized customers that want to realize the perceived benefits of DevOps principles yet have many obstacles to overcome that they frankly do not anticipate. And many of these challenges are not technical in nature but fall into the organizational or regulatory categories. A few case studies will help illustrate these approaches.

Speaker:

Darrell Schrag is a software development lifecycle consultant with IBM. Darrell has spent his 25 years of software development in numerous industries including DoD/Aerospace and Finance. For the past 18 years, Darrell has been with Rational Software and subsequently IBM Rational Software helping clients improve their software development practices.

Darrell currently is part of the IBM Rational Emerging Technologies team focusing on all things DevOps. He spends his time helping IBM clients get measurable value from adopting DevOps tools and practices.

Darrell is a Computer Engineering graduate of the University of Michigan. He lives in the greater Chicago area with his wife and two daughters.