DevOps and Innovation at USAA and IBM
summary
USAA describes cutting time to market from 158 to ~90 days with agile and now aims to drop releases from 28 to 7 days using layered fixes: a self-service test data system built on Optum, a common automation framework standardized on Selenium, virtualization of third‑party services, and a nightly “daily release regression” that runs 540 tests and ties failures to recent merges. IBM explains a scaled delivery pipeline (14 concurrent instances), reduces environment setup from 30 to 3 hours, and experiments with Watson on sprint data (562 tests, 1,106 work items).
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:26USAA DevOps Journey
- 1:28About USAA
- 1:54USAA Claims
- 2:21Fortune 150 Company
- 3:32Why is DevOps simple
- 3:44What problem are you solving
- 5:53Elevator pitch
- 6:23Release process
- 7:19Test data
- 8:22Optum
- 9:28Virtualization
- 10:30Daily Release Regression
- 12:22Developer Driven Testing
- 14:35All Day Dashboard
- 16:29Test Data Management
- 24:26Test
- 26:34Delivery Pipeline
- 29:11Sprint Data
- 30:38What Dibbe is most worried about
- 31:52IBM Garage Method
- 32:12Top 5 takeaways
- 32:38Need help
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