foundational structure of an Agile program is: Release - Capability delivered to users, composed of multiple sprints Sprint - Priority capabilities developed, integrated, tested, and demonstrated (aka: iteration) A large user story often defined for a release that spans multiple sprints Theme – A grouping of user stories or epics that may span multiple releases Teams often capture requirements in user stories span multiple sprints and form a release, while user stories should be implemented within a single sprint. Some teams add a third level: themes, which group epics or user stories and span multiple releases

Decision Making FrameworkCynefin Ku-nev-in Welsh word - habitat or place Signifies the multiple factors in our environment and our experiences that influence us in ways we don’t understand Developed

of events, must take place before another can begin ● Statistical fluctuations - most of the factors critical to running your plant successfully cannot be determined precisely ahead of time The

Causality” 2. Used disciplined approach to solving problems using telemetry to understand contributing factors and focus problem-solving. ii. Telemetry – An automated communications process by which measurements

Blameless Post-Mortem – Actions: 1. Construct a timeline and gather details of the failure from multiple perspectives2. Empower all engineers to improve safety by allowing them to give detailed accounts these 3rd party components ii. Examine dependencies for known vulnerabilities and consolidate multiple versions of the same library iii. 2014 Verizon PCI Data Breach Investigation Report – studies

becomes a business decisions, not a technical decision v. Environment-based Release Pattern – multiple environments available, only one is receiving live traffic. Release performed by moving traffic i. Enables deployments during normal business hours ii. Blue-Green Deployment 1. Strategy a. Multiple environments with only 1 serving traffic b. Deploy to inactive environment, test, c. Swing traffic

products into production.  Thought I would get over there fix “their” problems.  Discovered, multiple teams involved in snowflake environment support.  The practice team wasn’t the same as the game