Cooperation and Communication

"The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation." -- The Agile Manifesto

Lesson 1: Release it!

For lesson 1, please read:
The flattening of the software release process

Lesson 2: Breaking down silos

For lesson 2, please read:
Breaking down silos
Breaking Down Silos with Cross-Functional Teams

Lesson 3: Using Slack

For lesson 3, please go through these Slack guides:

Other Readings
Quiz

    The DevOps dashboard...?

    1. shows how each change affects the entire system in every stage in the progression to deploying to production
    2. is another name for the kanban board
    3. provides real-time information on the software system
    4. both A and C

    Who should have "ownership" (be able to change) parts of a product in an agile team?

    1. only the creator of that part
    2. anyone on the team
    3. only the project supervisor
    4. only the system administrator

    "Chaos Monkey" is...?

    1. a tool Netflix developed to intentionally crash their servers
    2. a description of who is in charge of most software projects
    3. the state of infrastructure before DevOps
    4. none of the above

    Having a cross-functional team means...?

    1. every team member is responsible for the delivery process
    2. any person on the team can modify any part of the software system
    3. answers A and B
    4. having no project manager on the team

    We want to script our environment so that...?

    1. environments are always in a known state
    2. we lessen the chance that knowledge is locked in team members' heads
    3. deployments are more predictable and repeatable
    4. all of the above

    An advantage Slack has over email threads is

    1. people can join and leave threads as they need to
    2. people won't forget to include someone who needs to see a message
    3. it is easy to bring in a new person and have them pick up on the whole conversation
    4. all of the above

    Organizational functions which should be centralized are...?

    1. those that develop the platform services used by the rest of the software-delivery team
    2. those that perform system monitoring
    3. both A and B
    4. no organizational functions should be centralized

    What is our main tool for communication in our course?

    1. git
    2. Docker
    3. Kubernetes
    4. Slack

    In DevOps, "silos" refers to the fact that...?

    1. departments in organizations often seemed sealed off from each other
    2. good software should be divided into "silos"
    3. granaries are major users of software
    4. all of the above

    The most essential element of employing DevOps is...?

    1. making cultural change in an organization
    2. finding the right tools
    3. having as many operations people as developers
    4. building silos between the teams