DevOps phase 2: Building some more

- We started our next phase … of building our new organization. … The first thing we needed to do, … was get some more process in place. … - A lean approach to process, … indicates you have as much as you need, but not more. … Some people confuse agile with being cowboys … and not having any process. … But in reality, lean and agile … require more discipline not less to be successful. … - But the discipline they require is not some big process … requiring VP approval to do anything, … it's every team member … doing what they agreed to do, every time. … - Our new release manager … told us we needed to do a couple of things, … and the first was put more process around releases. … She implemented a per ticket sign-off … and a go/no-go release meeting. … She talked the team into peer reviews on pull requests … and on writing automated tests for every ticket. … The QA people pivoted from performing, testing … to writing automated tests in the new framework. … These were hooked into our CI system, …