Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand Case Study - Itai Mendelsohn

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The CloudBand Journey (so far…)

Itai Mendelsohn

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CLOUDBAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Orchestrates, automates and optimizes vNFs

across distributed clouds and network

CLOUDBAND NODE Pre-configured turnkey node that includes

compute, storage and networking with software

designed for remote operation

CLOUDBAND™ IS THE

FIRST

NFV PLATFORM

INHERENTLY

DESIGNED FOR

CARRIER APPS

NFV APP

Cloud Management and Orchestration

NETWORK

NFV APP NFV APP NFV APP

DISTRIBUTED CLOUD NODES

APIs

APIs

NODE

NODE

NODE

NODE

NODE

CloudBand Node

NFV

INFRASTRUCTURE

CloudBand™ – the platform for NFV

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We are building that…

Multiple technology

layers

~85 people team

This is our Journey…

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Structure - Culture

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Larman’s “laws” for org structure

Status Quo Culture Follows

Structure

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De-centralized control

Well, we don’t do submarines… but we do believe

that:

• We need to give control (we never used that

term though)

• Our developers know better than “us”

• Management layers = complexity

• Developers rule! – That’s the new market

• We need to filter the “noise” (aka corporate tax)

We need a simple, flat and empowered

organization

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Moving quality attention to the “left”

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At the end it’s all about the Culture

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Culture – or what is agile for us?

people accountability

friendship

trust transparency

togetherness

Hands-on

business goals

contradictions

simplicity

context

people motivation

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Right, but how???

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Let’s review the goals first

• No sync/dependencies meetings

• Less cycles between dev and QA

• Less people in the room

• Simple decision making

• Happy people

• People making decisions

• People taking initiatives

• Developers with “context”

At the end... Velocity and innovation that is

people (engineers) driven

people process

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How - or the things we did

Make it

Flat

Shift

Left

Our

“Spotify”

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Nice but…. (or the bad and the ugly)

Attrition Quality

?

Lost people

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It’s the first step…

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In retro…

We don’t have sync meetings (between teams)

We see more features initiated by developers (or QA)

Easy to make decisions…

More people with more initiatives (but still not all over the place)

❌Quality and velocity … we are not there yet

❌People are happy…? you will need to ask them

☀As always, there are tons of things to improve

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Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand Case Study - Itai Mendelsohn