How Capital One put Quality in the Driver seat thru DevOps and other best practices

Abstract:

See how Capital One leveraged Quality Driven Delivery to improve time to market and maintain high quality.

In a highly integrated environment with Agile teams having many dependencies, Capital One faced many challenges that led to prolonged hardening sprints and no real improvements in time to market. We struggled with many facets of Agile implementation and were not getting any of the real benefits Agile provides. In order to solve this, Capital One leveraged DevOps, TDD and ATDD practices and branded them “Quality Driven Deliver” or “QDD”. QDD provided the foundation needed to deliver on the goals of being able to deliver high quality working code to production early and often.   This session will review the experience Capital One went through in order to implement these best practices. We will also cover the core principles of Quality Driven Delivery. We will review specific questions and assessments that can be done to evaluate where you are in each of these principles. We will talk about the common roadblocks that occur and some recommendations on how best to remove them from the environment.

Speaker:

Adam is currently a Director of IT at Capital One. He is leading the implementation and support of all the DevOps teams across the enterprise at Capital One.

Adam is also responsible for the Enterprise Release Management, Test Data Management, Test Automation and Performance Testing Teams. He has over 14 years’ experience in IT, most of which has been in a leadership role with a concentration on Quality.