Josh Atwell (Splunk), Ben Grinnell (Newton), Suzette Johnson (Northrop Grumman), Harry Koehnemann (Scaled Agile) & Dean Leffingwell (Scaled Agile)
As DevOps continues to challenge the status quo and improve business outcomes for software systems, many of the world’s larger enterprises are working to identify how to scale these practices across large, complex systems composed of hardware, firmware, and software.
In this follow up to the 2018 paper <i>Industrial DevOps</i>, we take the original guidance eight supporting principles, and the subsequent definitions one step further, by applying the principles in the context of a hypothetical example using autonomous cars and then relating it back to those governing principles.
Our intent is to help readers better understand the applicability and need for Industrial DevOps in different solutions, beyond those that are strictly software
What's inside
Debunks Myth — This paper debunks the myth that DevOps-style rapid iteration and improved flow only apply to software systems, not software + hardware systems.
Expert Authors — This paper is written by experienced practitioners who have worked developing modern cyber-physical systems.
Clear Guidance — Provides eight recommendations (principles) to bring DevOps principles and practices into complex cyber-physical systems.
Case Study — This paper illustrates its theories through a clear case study of a fiction company building cyber-physical systems in the automotive industry.
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Ben GrinnellBoard Member Capabilities and AI, Newton▼▲
Ben Grinnell is Managing Director and Global Lead of the Technology and Digital Service Line at North Highland, where he has spent over twenty years specializing in digital transformation for large organizations across public and private sectors. With extensive experience in next-generation IT, DevOps, Agile, and Lean methodologies, Grinnell has led major technology initiatives spanning government, health, education, and transport industries. He previously served as interim IT Director at the UK Border Agency, where he built internal IT capabilities and restructured major outsourced contracts. Grinnell holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computing from Loughborough University, completed PhD-level research in predictive control algorithms, and currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at Decentenergy.io.
Dr. Suzette Johnson is an award-winning author who has spent most of her career in the aerospace defense industry working for Northrop Grumman Corporation. Suzette was the enterprise Lean/Agile transformation lead. In this role, she launched the Northrop Grumman Agile Community of Practice and the Lean/Agile Center of Excellence. She has supported over a hundred enterprise, government, and DoD transitions to and the maturation of Lean-Agile principles and engineering development practices. She has also trained and coached over four thousand individuals on Lean/Agile principles and practices and delivered more than one hundred presentations on Lean/Agile at conferences both nationally and abroad. Her current role is as Northrop Grumman Fellow and Technical Fellow Emeritus, where she continues to actively drive the adoption of Lean/Agile principles with leadership at the portfolio levels and within cyber-physical solutions, specifically within the space sector. As a mentor, coach, and leader, she launched the Women in Computing, Johns Hopkins University Chapter; the Women in Leadership Development program; the Northrop Grumman Lean-Agile Center of Excellence; and the NDIA ADAPT (Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams) working group. She received a Doctorate of Management at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focused on investigating the impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and Agile engineering environments. She am also a Certified Agile Enterprise Coach and Scaled Agile Program Consultant/SPCT
Harry KoehnemannSAFe Fellow and Senior Consultant, Scaled Agile▼▲
Harry Koehnemann, Scaled Agile Inc., is a methodologist and SAFe Fellow. He helps organizations build and deliver large, complex systems faster, more predictably, and with high quality using SAFe. He has spent the past two decades working with large system builders in aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries to apply Lean/Agile principles to their engineering practices, including systems engineering practices, quality management, and compliance.
