Building A Cloud Foundry Dojo A Model For Open Source Communities

Brian Gallagher, EMC Corporation

Building A Cloud Foundry Dojo

Cloud Foundry Gaining Momentum in Enterprise

Scaling Contributors Primary Goal

Scaling OSS Too Fast = Stability, Quality ⬇

The Dojo Approach Works A Model For All OSS!

Follow The ‘Way’ Learn By Doing

CF Best Choice for Cloud Native Enterprise Apps

Cloud Native Apps

Architecture

Technology

Methodology

Brand Consumer

Service

Organization

You !

Building A Dojo 7 Months In 15 Minutes

People Selecting The BEST Talent

Java, Ruby, Go

XP, TDD, Agile

Collaborative

Open minded

Change World!

2300+ 120+

Phone / Skype

Skill validation

120+ 60+

In-person / Skype

Programming test

Speed, aptitude &

empathy

Must score >92

60+ 30+

Full day on-site

2 half day pairs

30+ 15+

RPI >92

Pairing: •Yes / Yes = Yes

•Yes / Maybe = Yes

•No = No

15+ 11+

6 week onsite Dojo

Daily pairing

The 3rd Day

3/6 wk retrospective

People EMC Cloud Foundry Team

Yu Xuebin Victor Thinh

Scott Paul Nancy Megan Luke

Jeff Idit CTO

Eric Recruiting

Emily Finance

Marie H HR

Brian R Brian G

Yuval

People EMC Team Experience

Main reason to join team? • Fell in love with DevOps culture • Cloud native is the future • Test driven team = high quality product • Executive support for XP, finally

First impressions of Labs? • So loud. How can work get done? • Wow, I'd love to work here!. • Like walking into a dream. • Looked like an agile startup

How do you like your job? • Revolutionary coding culture • Best experience to date. • Sets bar for now & future • Like it a lot, Areas to improve

NPS

33

How was interview experience? • Best ever, Really loved it. • Felt motivated and alive • Actually *LEARNED* in interview • Committed code in interview

NPS 100

People Building A Collaborative

Environment A Tale Of Two Cities

Toilet paper Rearview Mirror

BeeHive of Energy

Creative Messaging

Anatomy Of A Dojo – Cambridge, MA

PAIR PROGRAMMING STATIONS 96 Developers

COLLABORATION SPACE

COLLABORATION SPACE

TEAM ROOMS

TEAM ROOMS

TEAM ROOMS

TEAM

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MS

HIPPO OFFICES

HIP

PO

O

FFICES

HIP

PO

O

FFICES

HIPPO OFFICES

MEETUP & SOCIAL

AREA

FOOD !!

PING PONG !!

Process Combining The Best Of The Best

CI CD

Xtreme Software Innovation

Process Methodology Built In Daily

PAIR PROGRAMMING

Productivity / Innovation / Quality ⬆

Regular pair / team rotations

Risk of attrition ⬇

Rapid scale up / down of teams

Density / Communication ⬆

TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

Shorter bug cycles

Improves quality - lower CoPQ

Decreases capital & inventory

Improved QA : Dev ratio

DevOPS CI/CD

Rapid release cycles

Reduces technical risk

Increased customer adoption / c-sat

Facilitates ‘fail fast’

Risk

Time between releases

LEAN / AGILE

Improves backlog – 90% features

Decreases sustaining costs

Real time retrospectives

Continual improvements

Improved morale – small chunks

Technology How Did We Contribute?

E M C C L O U D F O U N D R Y T E C H N I C A L C O M M U N I T Y

CLOUD FOUNDRY CONTRIBUTORS

CLOUD FOUNDRY CONTRIBUTIONS

DOJO OUTSIDE OF PIVOTAL ANNOUNCED 19 MAR 2015

MAIN AREAS OF CONTRIBUTION

SPONSORED CF MEETUPS

8 900+

3

1st

BOSH / CPI UAA / CC

Technology Areas Of Future Contribution

E M C C F C O M M U N I T Y

C H A N G I N G T H E W O R L D C L O U D N A T I V E I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

PERSISTENCE

BARE METAL

DATA PROTECTION

SECURITY

Building A Cloud Foundry Dojo

Cloud Foundry Gaining Momentum in Enterprise

Scaling Contributors Primary Goal

Scaling OSS Too Fast = Stability, Quality ⬇

The Dojo Approach Works A Model For All OSS!

Follow The ‘Way’ Learn By Doing

CF Best Choice for Cloud Native Enterprise Apps