I know that some of my readers are impatient to get their hands on the my new project: the Next Gen DevOps Transformation Framework. I’m as eager to release it as they are to play with it but it isn’t quite ready for it’s public debut yet. I have created a project in Github where I will release it but at the moment it just hosts a readme. If want to keep an eye the project you can find it here: https://github.com/grjsmith/NGDO-Transformation-Framework

With the framework I’m attempting something quite challenging. I don’t mean writing the framework, anyone who’s seen DevOps in action and read around the subject a little could create a framework for a DevOps transition. The challenge is presenting it for two audiences with two very different perspectives. I’m trying to create something detailed enough that engineers and managers can argue about it and contribute to it and yet something simple enough that budget holders can understand at-a-glance what they might be getting their organisations into.

Two months ago when I announced I had started work on the framework I mentioned that one of my goals was to create something that would have helped me while I was at EA. I failed to convince the central operations group to adopt DevOps, I was able to convince them of the benefits of DevOps but I couldn’t present them with an approach that they could plan and budget for. The framework successfully presents the scale and complexity of a DevOps transformation but I’m struggling with presenting the evolving benefits of the DevOps approach as the organisation progresses through the framework.

That’s where my secret weapon comes in. My girlfriend Kylie just happens to be a very talented Business Analyst. One of the things Kylie excels at is presenting complex data simply and effectively. Kylie’s working on the framework now and we hope to have the first version ready for release by the end of June.