advice.json

{
	"//" : "Copyright 2018 Atos SE and Worldline",
	"//" : "Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/atosorigin/DevOpsMaturityAssessment/blob/master/LICENSE)",
	
	"Team Agility" : {
		"Advice" : "A great place to start is by reading the Agile Manifesto. Scrum is a popular Agile software development framework which is a great approach when setting up a new team if there isn't already an existing way of working. Kanban is an evolutionary method for improving a team's agility, and works well when the team already has an existing way of working in place.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Agile Manifesto",
				"Href" : "http://agilemanifesto.org/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Explaining Agile - Martin Fowler and Neal Ford at USI (0:43)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE6lbPLEAzc"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "The Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban - David Anderson(1:31)",
				"Href" : "https://vimeo.com/46272041"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "The Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland",
				"Href" : "http://www.scrumguides.org/index.html"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Succeeding-Agile-Software-Development-Using/dp/0321579364",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David Anderson",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Kanban-Successful-Evolutionary-Technology-Business/dp/0984521402",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			}
		]
	},
	"Collaboration" : {
		"Advice" : "Consider whether you have the tools necessaary to enable effective communication within and outside of the team. Also think about how effective the team's interpersonal habits are for enabling a fast, low-friction and precise exchange of ideas and emotions.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "Cultivate Communities of Practice by Mike Cohn",
				"Href" : "https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/cultivate-communities-of-practice"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "DevOpsChat: Collaboration Tools Interview with Ryan Bryers and Adrian Hepworth (0:22)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF8Y4amhBtA"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "DevOpsChat: Team = Product Interview with Jim and Michele McCarthy (0:39)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs1tdql6Hb0"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Software For Your Head by Jim and Michele McCarthy",
				"Href" : "https://liveingreatness.com/software-for-your-head-book/"
			}
		]
	},
	"Automation" : {
		"Advice" : "Some advice on how to do automation",
		"Links" : [

		]
	},
	"Architecture and Design": {
		"Advice" : "Navigating the many and various options for optimising architecture for DevOps can be bewildering! It is important to bear in mind that there are no \"right\" answers. The agility and functionality of Public Cloud environments make them ideal for building DevOps focused architectures and a good starting point for reading matter is the Cloud Providers’ own guides. Beyond that there are various books, videos and vendor tool documentation that are useful sources of information.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Google Site Reliability Engineering Books",
				"Href" : "https://landing.google.com/sre/books/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "DevOps and AWS",
				"Href" : "https://aws.amazon.com/devops/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Microsoft Azure DevOps Checklist",
				"Href" : "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/checklist/dev-ops"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Microsoft Azure for Architects",
				"Href" : "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/azure-for-architects/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "The Twelve-Factor App",
				"Href" : "https://12factor.net/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-Practices/dp/032194318X/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Practical DevOps: Implement DevOps in your organization by effectively building, deploying, testing, and monitoring code",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Practical-DevOps-organization-effectively-monitoring/dp/1788392574/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Rethinking enterprise architecture for DevOps, agile, & cloud native organizations - Michael Cote (0:48)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UquXJsbr9M"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices - Josh Evans (0:53)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3wIuvmHeM"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Ansible: Up and Running: Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/_/dp/1491979801",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Puppet: Infrastructure as code",
				"Href" : "https://puppet.com/solutions/infrastructure-as-code"
			}
		]
	},
	"DevOps Practices" : {
		"Advice" : "There are a number of technical practices that are core to DevOps: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Test Driven Development, Refactoring, and Code Review. The resources here are good overviews. For more in depth results see the detailed report for DevOps Practices.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Article",
				"Text" : "Enterprise DevOps: Building a Service Oriented Organisation (Atos Whitepaper)",
				"Href" : "https://atos.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/DevOps_Building_a_Service_Oriented_Organization-White-Paper-web-FINAL-281116.pdf"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler",
				"Href" : "https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Continuous Delivery",
				"Href" : "https://continuousdelivery.com/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
					"Text" : "Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble (0:46)",
					"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skLJuksCRTw"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "TestDrivenDevelopment by Martin Fowler",
				"Href" : "https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestDrivenDevelopment.html"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "The Art of Agile Development: Test-Driven Development by James Shore",
				"Href" : "https://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/test_driven_development.html"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Refactoring.com",
				"Href" : "https://refactoring.com/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "Code Reviews: Just Do It by Jeff Atwood",
				"Href" : "https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-reviews-just-do-it/"
			}
		]
	},
	"Org Structure, Culture and Incentives" : {
		"Advice" : "Org Structure, Culture and Incentives",
		"Links" : [
			
		]
	},
	"CI" : {
		"Advice" : "Some advice on CI",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale by Gary Gruver",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leading-Transformation-Applying-Devops-Principles/dp/1942788010/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			}
		]
	},
	"CD" : {
		"Advice" : "Some advice on CD",
		"Links" : [
			
		]
	},
	"TDD" : {
		"Advice" : "Test Driven Development (TDD) is an approach to developing software where automated tests are written before production code. This ensures that an up-to-date automated tests are always maintained and makes it easier and less risky to make changes to software.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "TestDrivenDevelopment by Martin Fowler",
				"Href" : "https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestDrivenDevelopment.html"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide by David Astels",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131016490/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Existing-Addison-Wesley-Signature/dp/0134757599/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			}
		]
	},
	"Code Review" : {
		"Advice" : "Code reviews are a very effective way of increasing software quality and also spreading knowledge accross the team.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "Code Reviews: Just Do It by Jeff Atwood",
				"Href" : "https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-reviews-just-do-it/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Construction/dp/0735619670/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			}
		]
	},
	"Refactoring" : {
		"Advice" : "Refactoring is the technical practice of improving the internal quality of code without changing its external functionality. It is a way of reducing technical debt and enabling new functionality to be added more easily. It is also an integral part of Test Driven Development (TDD).",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Refactoring.com",
				"Href" : "https://refactoring.com/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "What is refactoring?",
				"Href" : "https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/refactoring"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Online catalog of refactorings by Martin Fowler",
				"Href" : "https://refactoring.com/catalog/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Code Refactoring: Learn Code Smells And Level Up Your Game! - Sandi Metz (0:36)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4auWwMsEnY"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Workflows of Refactoring - Martin Fowler (0:27)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqEg37e4Mkw"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Existing-Addison-Wesley-Signature/dp/0134757599/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			}
		]
	},
	"Environments" : {
		"Advice" : "Some advice on automating environments",
		"Links" : [
			
		]
	},
	"Testing" : {
		"Advice" : "Automated testing enables tests to be run quickly and frequently. It enabled new features to be added with a high degree of confidence that existing functionality will not be broken. As such it is a key enabler for delivering software frequently in smaller increments.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "TestPyramid by Martin Fowler",
				"Href" : "https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Article",
				"Text" : "The Practical Test Pyramid by Martin Fowler",
				"Href" : "https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Automation Testing Tutorial for Beginners (0:07)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbSlW8jZFe8"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Netflix Automation Talks - Test Automation at Scale (1:16)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrBN94gUn_I"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide by David Astels",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Development-Practical-Guide/dp/0131016490",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			}
		]
	},
	"Static Analysis" : {
		"Advice" : "Static code analysis is the analysis of software without executing the compiled program. In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code, and in the other cases, some form of the object code. Static analysis helps to improve code quality by reporting possible code bugs, code smells, memory leaks, software metrics and security vulnerabilities.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Static Code Analysis: Scan All Your Code For Bugs - Dr. Jared DeMott (0:19)",
				"Href" : "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heor8BVa4A0"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "SonarQube",
				"Href" : "https://www.sonarqube.org/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Coverity Scan",
				"Href" : "https://scan.coverity.com/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Website",
				"Text" : "Klocwork",
				"Href" : "https://www.roguewave.com/products-services/klocwork"
			}
		]
	},
	"Organisation Structure" : {
		"Advice" : "For successful DevOps, the organisation needs to be structured into teams that are both cross-functional and autonomous.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "The Benefits of Feature Teams by Mike Cohn",
				"Href" : "https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/the-benefits-of-feature-teams"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Article",
				"Text" : "Enterprise DevOps: Building a Service Oriented Organisation (Atos Whitepaper)",
				"Href" : "https://atos.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/DevOps_Building_a_Service_Oriented_Organization-White-Paper-web-FINAL-281116.pdf"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Video",
				"Text" : "Spotify Engineering Culture",
				"Href" : "https://vimeo.com/85490944"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures by Matt Stine",
				"Href" : "https://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2015/downloads/oreilly-cloud-native-archx.pdf"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			}
		]
	},
	"Culture" : {
		"Advice" : "Some advice on culture",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Tribal Leadership Revised Edition: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Leadership-Leveraging-Thriving-Organization/dp/0061251321/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture by Em Campbell-Pretty",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Unity-Getting-Creating-Culture/dp/1537347578/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "The Open Organization by Jim Whitehurst",
				"Href" : "https://www.amazon.com/Open-Organization-Igniting-Passion-Performance/dp/1625275277/",
				"Paid" : "Yes"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Book",
				"Text" : "The Open Organization Field Guide",
				"Href" : "https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/field-guide"
			}
		]
	},
	"Incentivisation" : {
		"Advice" : "Some advice on incentivisation",
		"Links" : [
			
		]
	},
	"Standardisation" : {
		"Advice" : "The arguments for standardisation versus flexibility are complex and multi-dimensional, as are the related decision points of utilising SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS. In truth, there is no \"correct\" answer and the overall benefit of standardisation will vary. The key to success is to gain a good understanding of the relative merits and disadvantages, which can then be applied to any particular situation. Below are some excellent guides to help develop greater understanding of this.",
		"Links" : [
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "Challenges in DevOps Standardization by Lavanya Subbarayalu",
				"Href" : "https://devops.com/challenges-devops-standardization/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "DevOps Survey Results: The Case for Standardized Continuous Delivery Tools by Heidi Gilmore",
				"Href" : "https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/devops-survey-results-case-standardized-continuous-delivery-tools"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "Centralized vs. decentralized CI / CD strategies for multiple teams by Adrian Oprea",
				"Href" : "https://oprea.rocks/blog/centralized-vs-decentralized-ci-cd-strategies-for-multiple-teams/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "When to use SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS by Eamonn Colman",
				"Href" : "https://www.computenext.com/blog/when-to-use-saas-paas-and-iaas/"
			},
			{
				"Type" : "Blog",
				"Text" : "SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS: What’s The Difference and How To Choose by Stephen Watts",
				"Href" : "https://www.bmc.com/blogs/saas-vs-paas-vs-iaas-whats-the-difference-and-how-to-choose/"
			}
		]
	}
}