Our 1st DevSecOps Hackaton!
Eugene Brockman
Talent Mobility & Employee Brand Specialist | Tech Talent Problem Solver | Digital innovation enthusiast for an inclusive future | Kindness Practitioner
Our dev teams were abuzz this week for our Dev teams across MMI Holdings. We converted our auditorium into a hub of DevOps innovation to stimulate the creative and problem-solving juices and allow for risk-taking to enable continuous delivery by allowing our dev teams to rise above their day-to-day job.
To kick things off everyone was given a bag of swag including a T-shirt that pretty much gave the guys ownership of their craft by being “AWESOME”.
Ernst one of our Site Reliability Engineers and fellow-organizer was excited because he believed that the benefit is three fold:
- "the time limit of hackathons forces participants ideas to action by giving various business areas the chance to bring fresh ideas to the fore."
- "Furthermore it allows every participant a chance at learning and gaining hands-on experience in using the tools (new or existing). "
- "We think that Hackathons will make our Business Areas more comfortable with taking Responsibility and Accountability of their environments and able to provide continuous delivery - "Agile is not agile without continuous delivery". At MMI's grouping of companies we have a big drive for Agile and applying the RACI stakeholder model (R=Responsible, A=Accountable, C=Consulted, I=Informed) .
On the day our DevSecOps Chapter lead co-sourced the objectives to:
1. Have Fun
2. Get our Golden pipeline of development projects into the trunk and into production
3. Define and assign ownership of devops tools in MMI.
Overall the hackathon was a success. In essence we were able to get all three pipelines executed and the amount of work we got done more than the collective had expected from the day.
We also believe they we now have a good start to really consolidate continuous delivery practices so that the DevSecOps chapter can start to decouple from the Change Advisory Board and run fairly autonomously , depending on meeting basic criteria.
So watch this space for more hackathons, more cool T's and more continuous delivery.
