Digital transformation in large organisations: A real-life journey to devops in a French bank
Channel: Paris Open Source Summit
Date: 26/11/2014

Fabrice Bernhard (Co-founder, CTO, Theodo) 

The two main examples will be Société Générale and BNPP IP, where different startups have united to bring a devops and Lean Startup culture in traditional organisations, starting with small quick-wins and then spreading them slowly to everything digital. In today's digital economy, it is not the big that eat the small, but the fast that eat the slow. Traditional IT project management has led to spectacular failures in terms of delays and risk management, on the other hand web leaders like Amazon, Netflix or Google have reached incredible velocity through disruptive implementation of agile principles. Traditional organisations are aware of this but stuck with their traditional IT culture, they feel unable to change and become agile before a Google or Amazon start attacking their market. All of them? No! Some organisations of indomitable Gauls try to hold out against the web giants. Let me tell you the story of how different large organisations are trying to fight against the inertia, with examples of how partnering with startups can help change the IT culture profoundly in some places and how these changes can spread. The focus will be on devops, the main way to create great quick-wins in an IT organisation by realigning in an agile way devs, ops and secs around their common business goals. Recommended reads before or after: The Innovator's dilemma ; Lean Startup ; The Phoenix Project.

http://www.openworldforum.paris/fr/tracks/devops-alm