Auspicious Agile State of Agile 2020

This week’s Auspicious Agile video blog takes a look at the VersionOne – Collabnet State of Agile Report for 2020. Lot’s of interesting developments. SAFe and Scrum continue to dominate Agile Scaling and Team level Agile. We will cover many other Agile and DevOps developments in the video.

Auspicious Agile – SAFe 5.0 Business Agility a practitioner’s perspective

Happy New Year! New Auspicious Agile video blog for 2020. Scaled Agile Framework 5.0 – A Practitioner’s Perspective. We look at the addition of Business Agility to SAFe along with other new additions.

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Agile, DevOps, and Business Agility Trends 2019 - 2020

This week's Auspicious Agile video blog covers trends in Agile, DevOps, and Business Agility for 2019 & 2020. Business Agility covers areas of Agility extending beyond traditional IT and Software and extending to all business functions like executive leadership, marketing, operations, finance, legal...

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Business Agility Institute - Business Agility Report 2019 https://businessagility.institute/learn/2019-business-agility-report-raising-the-bar/

Puppet Labs State of DevOps Survey 2019
https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-devops-report
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Do Agile & DevOps Work Together (part 2)

This question comes up a lot.  People ask if "now that we have DevOps do we still need Agile".  Or "Does Agile work with DevOps", "Should they be separate teams or initiatives"?  In this week's video blog we will try to answer these questions with a quick though exercise.

Scaled Agile (SAFe) DevOps

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Agile, DevOps and Blockchain Conference Season

For the past few months it has been conference season for me.  I have had multiple speaking engagements on the topics of Agile, DevOps and Blockchain for Singapore to Hong Kong and Thailand.  In today’s post I am going to share some of my favorite moments and photos from this nearly completed “Conference Season”.  I hope you enjoy, and that there are some though provoking nuggets as well.

Hubbis Digital Wealth Management Conference – Hong Kong

At this conference I spoke about “The 4 Waves of Agile”, DevOps and I touched on Blockchain as part of the “4th Wave” – Digital Innovation.  Here is a highlight video from the conference:

Hubbis Digital Wealth Management Conference Hong Kong Highlights.  My comments start around ~minute 3.

Blockchain Day Singapore

This was a great opportunity to share and network with blockchain enthusiasts in Singapore.  Below is the link to the Youtube playlist from my talk “Blockchain the Road Ahead” where I discuss the history, present and future of the blockchain, and why it matters.

DevOps 2018 Singapore

I participated in a Panel on “the DevOps Talent Pipeline” discussing DevOps talent and careers.  This was an interesting panel.  I was joined by several other participants from large companies that are running DevOps Initiatives.

I also presented a talk – “The Culture Change of Agile & DevOps”.  One of the highlights was a “Thought Exercise” I did with the audience on why Agile & DevOps need to work together.  Video clip below:

Here is a link to the full playlist from the DevOps 2018 Singapore Conference in Singapore.

Agile Tour Bangkok – Thailand

This is always a fun conference.  This is my third time speaking at the conference.  Thanks to Agile66 who organized the conference and took pictures and video.  My talk at the conference was titled “The 4 Waves of Agile & DevOps”.   The talk really focuses on how Agile and DevOps work together (a repeating theme this season) and also on the “4 Waves of Agile”.  Unfortunately, some of the video on the “4 Waves of Agile” was clipped from the beginning of the video.

More photos from the conference can be found on the Auspicious Agile Facebook page.

I also spoke at the Knowledge Hut Testing Automation Conference.  I spoke about “The Culture Change of DevOps and Test Automation”.

I also had a few more Agile, DevOps and Blockchain speaking engagements in the past few months.  You can find them of my YouTube Channel, and pictures + videos on the Auspicious Agile Facebook page.

Until next time – Stay Agile!

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Our Guide To Distributed Agile Framework eBook has Been Published on Amazon!

Our new Guide to Distributed Agile Framework eBook has just been published on Amazon!  We appreciate your support and feedback!  Our team has been working on the book for ~2 years now, and we are proud to present the product of this effort. We hope it helps many people to be more successful with Agile and distributed Agile teams.

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Agile “Growth” Mindset, Does it Really Matter?

What is Growth “Agile” Mindset, and does it really matter? Have you been involved in an Agile transformation or initiative. Was the “Growth” mindset present or missing? In today’s Auspicious Agile video we take a look at how important “mindset” really is to Agile and innovation.

Kanban Agile Method Update - (Kanban, Agile Scaling, and DevOps)

This week's Auspicious Agile video blog returns to the popular and evolving topic of Kanban.  We revisit this Agile method which continues to grow in popularity.  We will take a look at the basics of Kanban, along with how it is used with DevOps and Agile Scaling.

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DevOps for Mobile Development

Continuing the Auspicious Agile DevOps series, this week's video blog takes a look at DevOps for Mobile.  We will take a look at differences from traditional DevOps, mobile DevOps tools, and challenges.

DevSecOps Putting Security at the Heart of DevOps

DevSecOps RSA Conference 2017 in San Francisco and DevSecCon in Singapore will both take place in February, and point to the trend toward merging DevOps and security, a combination called DevSecOps.

DevSecOps - the combination of DevOps and Security (or SecOps) - is a new trend making its presence known across the internet, industry and conferences.  With DevSecOps RSA Conference 2017 in San Francisco and DevSecCon in Singapore coming up in February 2017 we take a closer look at this new trend.

DevSecOps puts security squarely in the middle of DevOps.  No longer treating security as an afterthought, or as a one time review in a traditional or waterfall project context.  So what is DevSecOps?  

DevSecOps.org says that “The mindset established by DevSecOps lends itself to a cooperative system whereby business operators are supplied with tools and processes that help with security decision making along with security staff that enable use and tuning for these tools.”  

The DevSecOps Manifesto defines:

• Leaning in over always saying “no”
• Data & security science over fear, uncertainty and doubt
• Open contribution & collaboration over security-only requirements
• Consumable security services with APIs over mandated security controls & paperwork
• Business driven security scores over rubber stamp security
• Red & blue team exploit testing over relying on scans & theoretical vulnerabilities
• 24x7 proactive security monitoring over reacting after being informed of an incident
• Shared threat intelligence over keeping info to ourselves
• Compliance operations over clipboards & checklists

Shannon Lietz of DevSecOps.org also offers five foundational principles of DevSecOps:

1. Customer focused mindset
2. Scale, scale, scale
3. Objective criteria
4. Proactive hunting
5. Continuous detection and response

Are practitioners and voices across the internet and social media supportive of DevSecOps?  Here are some of the opinions about DevSecOps:

According to TripWire.com contributor Tim Prendergast security professionals are now becoming viewed more as peers than simply approvers at the end of a project.  This is giving security professionals a seat at the table so that security can be more proactively addressed by teams.

CSOOnline looks at the variations of DevSecOps found in the wild - SecDevOps, DevOpsSec.  Jamie Tischart of CSOOnline likes the SecDevOps variation better as it “puts security first”.  CSOOnline has this to say about DevSecOps:

“The last one is DevSecOps. Literally, you can expand this to completing development, then reviewing and automating for security, and then deploying and operating. This articulation hopes to catch the security concerns before they are deployed to the world but are not as incorporated into the overall process as SecDevOps. Certainly DevSecOps has the benefit of focusing on security before introducing a vulnerability to the the wild, but it is not security-focused in every activity.”

TechBeacon also speaks to the many names which apply with the addition of names like rugged DevOps.  Chris Romeo in his TechBeacon article speaks of a perceived need for a standard name.

“This gives us a hint as to the disconnect that exists within security in DevOps. It’s still the wild west. There is no standard that defines security for DevOps, and the chances of a standard ever developing is small because different organizations are doing things their own way, and can’t even agree on a standard name. And while there is a standard for the secure development lifecycle (ISO/IEC 27034-1), few organizations are ever validated against it .”

In his Sonatype blog Derek Weeks posits that there is strong evidence that DevSecOps has picked up significant momentum in 2016.  Derek points to the November 2016 Gartner release of its report on DevSecOps.  Gartner’s inclusion of DevSecOps indicates that the trend is becoming mainstream, as Gartner’s focus is on mainstream technology topics and not early adoption topics.

Other voices in the conversation on DevSecOps range from private sector, to the open source Community with many conferences.  In the private sector HP notes that the inclusion of security into DevOps is a hot topic.  HP notes that the different terminology indicates that security is an addition to DevOps rather than an integral part of it (at least in the current state).

In the open source community there are multiple meetups on DevSecOps including one in Singapore and another in the US in San Diego.  The Singapore meetup description indicates that:

“DevOps is a cultural shift for more and more organisations, bringing speed and innovation benefits that surpass other SDLC methods. But some of the principles of DevOps aren’t quite aligned with how companies of all sizes will need to incorporate and embed security into this shift. DevSecOps provides a path forward for the transformation and helps companies to shift security to the left so that everyone can take responsibility for it.”

The DevSecOps Dojo is another location on the Web for updates on what is happening in the world of DevSecOps including article updates and a DevSecOps Twitter feed.

A range of several recent (and upcoming) conferences also show how pervasive DevSecOps has become.  DevSecOps RSA Conference 2017 has support from DevSecOps.com, Sonatype, and RSA Conference. A previous DevSecCon recently took place in London, and will be held for the first time in Asia in February.  DevSecOps was also a featured topic at the recent 2016 IT Expo London.