Learning to Scale Agile-DevOps for Agricultural R&D
summary
Syngenta moves a fragile R&D portfolio into cloud-hosted adaptive platforms by upgrading the legacy portfolio system (no heavy customisation), adding a data warehouse and QlikView, and running a supplier-hosted CI/CD pipeline with ~11 web-service integrations. Outcomes: releases go from every six months to every six weeks, 50% improvement in speed and quality, defects drop below 5%, and manual ops work falls ~30%. Key practices: single product owner, same supplier team, and reserving 20% of story points for technical debt.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:37About Syngenta
- 3:36About me
- 4:07What is RD in agriculture
- 7:32RD Portfolio Management
- 9:33Context
- 14:35Value
- 17:21DevOps
- 22:12Other Use Cases
- 25:48Remarks
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