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Industrializing Financial Services with DevOps: Proven 360° DevOps operating model practices for enabling a multi-speed bank
Author(s): Spyridon Maniotis (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 9 Dec. 2022
- Language: English
- Print length: 364 pages
- ISBN-10: 1804614343
- ISBN-13: 9781804614341
Book Description
Embrace best practices to advance and help evolve your DevOps operating model in the right direction and overcome common challenges that financial services organizations face.
Purchase of the print or kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.
Key Features
- Design the right DevOps operating model for your organization through practical examples
- Get insights into a variety of proven practices and concepts that you can employ during your DevOps adoption
- Gain a holistic view of the complete DevOps capabilities and mechanisms to be enabled
Book Description
In recent years, large financial services institutions have been embracing the concept of DevOps in the core of their digital transformation strategies. This book is inspired by real enterprise DevOps adoptions in the financial services industry and provides a comprehensive proven practice guide on how large corporate organizations can evolve their DevOps operating model.
The book starts by outlining the fundamentals comprising a complete DevOps operating model. It continues with a zoom in on those fundamentals, combining adoption frameworks with real-life examples. You’ll cover the three main themes underpinning the book’s approach that include the concepts of 360°, at relevance, and speeds. You’ll explore how a bank’s corporate and technology strategy links to its enterprise DevOps evolution. The book also provides a rich array of proven practices on how to design and create a harmonious 360° DevOps operating model which should be enabled and adopted at relevance in a multi-speed context. It comes packed with real case studies and examples from the financial services industry that you can adopt in your organization and context.
By the end of this book, you will have plenty of inspiration that you can take back to your organization and be able to apply the learning from pitfalls and success stories covered in the book.
What you will learn
- Understand how a firm’s corporate strategy can be translated to a DevOps enterprise evolution
- Enable the pillars of a complete DevOps 360° operating model
- Adopt DevOps at scale and at relevance in a multi-speed context
- Implement proven DevOps practices that large incumbents banks follow
- Discover core DevOps capabilities that foster the enterprise evolution
- Set up DevOps CoEs, platform teams, and SRE teams
Who this book is for
This book is for DevOps practitioners, banking technologists, technology managers, business directors and transformation leads. Prior knowledge of fundamental DevOps terminologies and concepts and some experience practicing DevOps in large organizations will help you make the most out of this book.
Table of Contents
- The Banking Concept and DevOps Value Proposition
- The DevOps Multi-Speed Context, Vision, Objectives, and Change Nature
- The DevOps 360° Operating Model Pillars and Governance Model
- Enterprise Architecture and the DevOps Center of Excellence
- Business Enterprise Agility and DevOps Ways of Working Reconciliation
- DevOps Software Development Life Cycle 360° Evolution and Engineering
- The DevOps 360° Technological Ecosystem as a Service
- 360° Regulatory Compliance as Code
- The DevOps Portfolio Classification and Governance
- Tactical and Organic Enterprise Portfolio Planning and Adoption
- Benefit Measurement and Realization
- People Hiring, Incubation, and Mobility
- Site Reliability Engineering in the FSI
- 360° Recap, Staying Relevant, and Final Remarks
Editorial Reviews
Review
“As someone who has worked with large financial services companies for almost their entire professional career, I know how difficult it is to adopt the DevOps ideology and practices in these companies, and that is why this book intrigued me so much. It’d be fair to say that even some of those who work as DevOps engineers or work in the same team as them, don’t fully grasp that DevOps is much more than CI/CD pipelines or bringing developers and operations closer together. This book covers all the aspects of what DevOps really is (slightly touching up on SRE) and how you can benefit from adopting it in financial services companies.
This book is not just about boring theory and buzzwords; it’s a guide to adopting theory in real life, avoiding common mistakes, discovering where to focus first, and much more. On top of that, it explains some complicated topics using real-life examples and stories. All these seemingly small details made this book easy to read and inspired me with a few good ideas to improve the DevOps journey in my company. I recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with DevOps adoption in their company, be it due to corporate bureaucracy, legacy systems, stubborn colleagues, regulatory reasons, or any other causes. You can learn how to change things for the better.”
Aurimas Gedminas, Industrializing Financial Services with DevOps’, SRE Engineer
About the Author
Spyridon Maniotis is the Head of DevOps at Capco, based in London. In recent years, his career focus has been on working with enterprise DevOps transformations in the financial services industry. His financial services DevOps experience includes Nordic, British and French incumbent banks, as well as European payments and pension fund corporations. He has worked for more than 10 years with financial services technology, among others at Nordea Bank, Danske Bank, Deloitte Consulting and Ericsson. He is well rounded and seasoned across DevOps, SRE, SDLC, technology strategy, regulatory compliance, as well as agile methodologies. He holds a BSc in computer science, a MSc in software engineering and an MBA degree.
