From Waterfall to Agile

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Microsoft shifts from 3-year releases to 3-week releases, running Azure DevOps Services (Azure Boards, Pipelines, Repos, Test Plans, Artifacts) as its single engineering system and dogfooding it company-wide. The org flattens roles into cross-trained engineers, forms 10–12-person feature teams on three-week sprints, enforces a bug bar (max four carryover bugs), and tolerates ~20% attrition during change. Results claimed: 96,000 engineers, 6.3M builds/month, 163k deployments/day, plus daily bug-fix pushes and strict live-incident escalation.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:16WHAT IS DEVOPS?
3. 8:03DEVOPS IN MICROSOFT
4. 10:58THE JOURNEY TO DEVOPS
5. 12:47TEAM STRUCTURE
6. 17:27INSTEAD OF HORIZONTAL...
7. 18:24WE STRIVE FOR VERTICAL

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