T-Minus-15: Secrets of an Elite DevOps Team

The T-Minus-15 Methodology gives specific implementation details for development teams that want to apply the principles of Agile (specifically Scrum) and DevOps.

Whilst you can read about DevOps and Agile framework (at the time of writing, over 600 and 8,000 results respectively for books on these topics exist on Amazon), what an IT Manager and his team really want to know are specifics to hit the floor running. This includes knowledge such as what roles you need in the team, how to create estimates, what meetings are needed, the metadata for your work items, and other secrets from an Elite DevOps team.

This book is specifically aimed at my team members and customers to know how we implement projects in order that they are successful. However, the book has now been made available for other teams to learn from.

PLEASE NOTE: This book is still very much draft and subject to change.

Issues, Errors, Comments, Contributions

To suggest changes, please submit a pull request. The format of this book uses AsciiDoc.

If you submit a pull request, please feel free to add your details to the Thanks section.

If you submit in the region of 25+ pull requests (dependent on size of the pull request and that includes new content and insight), you have the option to become a co-author.

Sponsors of the project will be added to the Sponsors page (see link above to become a sponsor of the project).

Presentations

We'll be adding various presentations to this repository for resources to use for training and education of team members, product owners, stakeholders alike.

Reading this book

To read this book, see book.asciidoc. Click on each of the chapters to read in your browser. Or, when available, purchase the book from Amazon.

Chapters

• About the Author
• Foreword
• Sponsors
• What's this all about?
• Chapter 1: Decoding the client's wants and needs
• Chapter 2: Crafting great user experiences
• Chapter 3: Let's get Agile!
• Chapter 4: So what about DevOps?
• Chapter 5: The Avengers of Agile: Assembling a Cross-Functional Squad That Delivers Results
• Chapter 6: Raising the Bar: The Pursuit of Quality in Agile Projects
• Chapter 7: Delivering value
• Chapter 8: Happy customers
• Chapter 9: 15-steps to success
• Appendix 1: Epic metadata
• Appendix 2: Feature metadata
• Appendix 3: User Story metadata
• Appendix 4: Task metadata
• Appendix 5: Bugs and Enhancements metadata
• Appendix 6: WIP limits
• Appendix 7: Proposals
• Appendix 8: Reports
• Appendix 9: Meetings
• Appendix 10: Azure DevOps Process Template Setup
• Thanks

Source

This repository will act as the source for the printed version of the book that will be published to Amazon Kindle Publishing.

Relevant links

TBC

License

This book is made available under the creative commons terms of license.

Proceeds

All proceeds of the printed version of this book will be gifted to Bitcoin Smiles.