DevOps Interviews - Channel 9

In this interview, Donovan Brown interviews Group Program Manager Aaron Bjork about self-forming teams and the yellow sticky exercise.

Self-forming teams at scale by Brian Harry

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In this video Donovan Brown interviews Jill Campbell, Group Program Manager who works in the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems team, overseeing the process and tools Windows uses to plan work across tens of thousands of employees and an extensive portfolio of products including Xbox, Surface, Windows Store and of course the Windows operating system itself.

Throughout the interview Jill will describe how Windows moved all these product teams from various tools to a unified process powered by Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), and how VSTS scales for them along with the flexibility and customizability which enabled them to be successful in managing over 11 million work items, across 33,000 users (across all of Microsoft) and with teams varying in processes ranging from Agile through to Waterfall.

In this interview, Principal DevOps Manager Donovan Brown interviews Principal Group Program Manager Aaron Bjork about how the release notes for VSTS are generated for each release.

[00:50] Set the stage
[01:15] Release Notes Page
[02:14] How are they created
[02:40] DoD
[03:12] Not everything requires release notes
[03:53] Feature Flags!
[04:40] Release notes in action
[05:04] Delivery Plans
[06:19] When do we set the flag?
[06:52] When should you write the release notes?
[08:45] How do you find all the release notes?
[09:35] Sprint mails
[11:20] The query of items needing release notes
[12:10] Bringing it all together with Markdown
[13:42] Pull requests
[15:45] Keys to making it work

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In this interview, Director of Engineering Munil Shah returns to answer the questions asked about Safe Deployment of Visual Studio Team Services.

[00:32] Deployment Rings
[05:39] RM Deployment Definition
[08:30] Ring 4a
[11:35] Branching / CI
[14:14] Hot Fixes
[16:54] Cherrypicking changes
[17:46] We never delete branches
[20:10] Deployment frequency

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In this interview, recorded live from Ignite 2017, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate Damian Brady interviews Senior Program Manager Edward Thomson about Git in Visual Studio Team Services.

[00:19] Source control options in VSTS and TFS
[02:20] Microsoft Engineering's move to VSTS and Git
[03:52] Managing Git at scale - GVFS
[06:05] Accessing a Git repository in VSTS

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