IBM

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Garage Method

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In two sections, this field guide provides a high-level

overview of the IBM Cloud Garage Method.

Disrupters are reinventing business processes and leading

their industries with digital transformations. Adopting

real-time processes, DevOps methodologies, data-driven

decision making, and innovative technology evens the

playing field.

DISRUPT THE DISRUPTERS

The IBM® Cloud Garage Method is IBM’s approach

to enable business, development and operations to

continuously design, deliver, and validate new function. The

practices, architectures, and toolchains cover the entire

product lifecycle from inception through capturing and

responding to customer feedback and market changes.

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Tips to engage with the

practices, toolchains,

architectures, and information

about visiting a Bluemix

Garage.

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A summary of the

method’s concepts.

Innovate, disrupt,

transform at scale

Evolve to deliver rapidly

Is your organization still developing using the waterfall

method, completing one or two major releases each year?

Or have you started the move to agile development and

removed a few barriers, but find that silos still exist between

business and development or development and operations?

IT STARTS WITH CULTURE

Shift the culture.

The move to continuous delivery and

continuous integration is daunting, but possible. First, focus

on shifting the culture and mindset of your organization.

Adopt DevOps best practices.

For an enterprise to evolve

from waterfall to continuous delivery, and become agile

along the way, it must combine industry-proven DevOps

practices with its own experience and knowledge, and then

execute at scale.

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Learn more

Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website.

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method

Act more like a startup

In this evolution, one key to culture change is adopting

the startup mindset. Startups are redefining everything:

business experimentation, design, development practices,

operations, testing, production, tooling, and management.

IT’S A JOURNEY

Embark on your evolution.

Get everyone on board and

excite them with the opportunity to delight customers and

deliver code in new ways.

Unify around your vision.

Make sure that everyone

understands the end goal and why the culture is changing.

Educate your team on new technologies, practices and

principles, and provide guidelines for setting up tooling,

delivery pipelines and automation. In time, continuous

delivery will become the norm.

Learn more

Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website.

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method

Bluemix provides the platform, expert guidance, and

methodology you can rely on to jumpstart your DevOps

transformation.

Foundations of inno

vation

Bluemix.

Bluemix is an open standards cloud platform that

enables developers and operations staff to rapidly build, run, and

manage all types of applications. The platform provides a fast

way to get an application to production, scale it, secure it, and

manage it.

Bluemix Garage.

Bluemix Garage is a consultancy with

a startup DNA. At Bluemix Garages around the world,

companies both large and small are empowered to create

engaging applications. Garage consultants help you start your

transformation in workshops, where you design and build real

apps that solve your business needs.

Cloud Garage Method.

The Cloud Garage Method is a collection

of practices, architectures and tools curated to help organizations

rapidly design, build, deploy and scale innovative cloud applications.

The Garage Method reinforces IBM Design Thinking, Lean Startup,

and agile DevOps concepts. You can scale what you learn in the

Garage to your enterprise.

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To become a disrupter, choosing how to develop software

is as important as defining what to develop. The Garage

Method’s practices, toolchains and architectures are

fundamental to transforming the entire product lifecycle.

Cloud Garage

Method Principles

Tools and Toolchains.

A toolchain is a set of tool integrations

that supports development, deployment, and operations tasks.

The collective power of a toolchain is greater than the sum of its

individual tool integrations. The tools in the method are used by

teams at IBM and IBM clients on their transformation journeys.

Architectures.

Architectures provide a structure that you

can use to integrate cloud services into your solutions. Each

architecture includes specific implementations that you can use

and customize.

Practices.

Each practice defines an overall business

transformation goal and presents achievable activities that you

and your team can do to reach that goal.

PHASES IN THE CLOUD

GARAGE METHOD

A successful project is centered around a culture of innovation and

starts with IBM Design Thinking. The method is divided into phases.

Each phase includes a set of practices and tools to help you achieve

your transformation goals.

Your team will develop multiple MVPs that are staged over time. While

one MVP is being defined, another is being developed, and another is

being tested in the market. You will continuously design, deliver and

validate new capability in the market.

TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS

Business Benefits.

Deliver your innovative ideas to customers faster.

Make innovation a repeatable process. Ensure enterprise scale and

quality.

Technical Benefits.

Quickly stand up your own continuous delivery

pipeline. Design experiments and test hypotheses to drive innovation.

Deploy and run on public clouds, a dedicated cloud, or in local

environments.

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Learn more

Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website.

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method

Cloud

Garage Method Phases

Culture.

Transform your organization by combining

business, technology, and process innovations that

help you create teams that quickly learn from market

experiences.

Think.

Incrementally deliver awesome solutions by using

IBM Design Thinking and related design practices.

Code.

Adopt development practices to build cloud-native

applications, release incremental function, gather feedback,

and measure results.

Deliver.

Accelerate time-to-market by using continuous

integration, continuous deployment, and automating

repeatable and transparent processes.

Run.

Run highly available solutions on a cloud platform by

using Cloud Foundry, containers, or VMs. Run on a public

cloud, a dedicated cloud, a private cloud, or in a hybrid

environment.

Manage.

Ensure operational excellence with continuous

application monitoring, high availability, and fast recovery

practices that expedite problem identification and

resolution.

Learn.

Continuously experiment by testing hypotheses,

using clear measurements to inform decisions, and driving

findings into the backlog so that you can pivot.

CULTURE

Culture change? Impossible! But if you want to transform your

organization and achieve rapid innovation, continuous delivery and

DevOps, culture change is exactly what you need. The Cloud Garage

Method can help.

TAKE-BACK TIPS

Building diverse teams.

To successfully innovate at scale, teams must

know when to pivot. A healthy mix of diverse individuals is critical to a

high-performing team.

Define organizational roles.

DevOps at scale calls for a number of

specific roles, each requiring unique skills and domain knowledge.

Work in autonomous co-located squads.

Teams perform best when

they get to decide how to do their work, and they communicate the

most efficiently when they are co-located.

Adopt agile principles.

Agile development produces software

in short iterations on a continuous delivery schedule. Other agile

principles include self organizing teams, simplicity, sustainable pace of

development, and change that is based on customer feedback.

Learn more

Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website (Culture phase).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/culture

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Build trust and alignment

with better communication

and transparency.

EVERYONE IN THE BOAT!

The business and product owner, designer, developer, and team

lead all work together.

THINK

When you start up a new product or a new iteration, you must

conceptualize, design, refine and prioritize features that will delight your

customers. To do this effectively, you’ll bring together business leaders,

sales, designers, development, product management, and customers.

TAKE-BACK TIPS

Use IBM Design Thinking.

Design thinking is a powerful approach to

innovation and brand differentiation that is focused on creating positive

experiences.

Define a minimum viable product.

An MVP is the absolute bare

minimum in a delightful experience that your target persona accepts to

accomplish a goal.

Hold playbacks.

Playbacks occur throughout the development cycle

and are used to gather feedback and keep the team in sync.

Plan iterations using rank ordered backlog.

The design process

results in a backlog of work that the squads must do to deliver an MVP.

The backlog is prioritized and used to plan iterations.

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Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website (Think phase).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/think

IBM DESIGN THINKING

Bring together diverse stakeholders to define personas, generate

ideas, and define an MVP.

Know your audience and meet

their needs faster than your

competition.

CODE

Code is the generation, enhancement, optimization, and testing of

features to deliver an MVP.

TAKE-BACK TIPS

Hold daily standup meetings.

Each day the squad meets for no more

than 20 minutes to discuss how things are going and whether any

issues are blocking progress.

Program in pairs and use test-driven development (TDD).

Innovate

faster by writing a failing test case and implementing just enough code

to pass the test. Combine TDD with pair programming to minimize

errors.

Continuously integrate.

By continuously integrating all working code,

you can detect errors and integrate the entire system early. As a result,

you can deliver code at any time.

Automate testing.

To deliver code continuously, your tests must be

automated.

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Learn more

Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website (Code phase).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/code

GET IT TOGETHER

Start the daily standup with your team, review the backlog, then

pair up to write awesome code.

Collaborate to create and

continuously integrate high

quality code.

DELIVER

Deliver new features, while you maintain reliability, quality, and

performance. You should build and deploy your software so it can be

released into production at any time.

TAKE-BACK TIPS

Deliver continuously using a pipeline.

To achieve continuous delivery

in a consistent and reliable way, break the delivery process into stages.

The goal is for the code to progress through each step with minimal

human intervention.

Automate Deployments.

Eliminate manual steps from the creation

of the environments to the delivery of your code into production.

Automation can be incorporated into the delivery pipeline.

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Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website (Deliver phase).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/deliver

Continuously build, test, and

deploy code, through an

automated delivery pipeline.

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

Pipeline stages ensure a repeatable way to deploy code to

production.

RUN

It isn’t enough to run an instance of an application on the cloud.

Modern applications must be available 24/7. Learn how to develop

a highly available application that meets your defined service level

agreement (SLA).

TAKE-BACK TIPS

Build a high availability infrastructure.

Deploy to multiple data

centers with the ability to instantly failover if there is a problem.

Dark Launch and Feature Toggles.

Deploy new features to a subset

of users for evaluation and feedback before going live to all customers.

Features can be enabled or disabled based on parameters.

Auto-scaling.

Implement auto-scaling to ensure that enough resource

is available at peak times and to save cost by reducing allocated

resource during low usage times.

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Learn more

Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website (Run phase).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/run

Harness the power of the cloud

to quickly get your MVP to

production.

START RUNNING AND STAY RUNNING

Run in multiple data centers to ensure high availability.

MANAGE

Problems occur all the time but your users should never know. The

key is to prepare for problems in advance, and then monitor and detect

problems when they occur.

Ensure your application is continuously available through automated

monitoring and fast recovery practices so there is no impact to

application users.

TAKE-BACK TIPS

Automate monitoring.

Ensure that your application is available to your

customers when they need it.

Enable fast recovery.

Develop a strategy to ensure continuous

availability and non-disruptive change.

Be resilient.

Test for the unexpected. Know how your application

responds when someone pulls the plug.

Automate operations.

Automation enables you to reduce costs and

focus your highly skilled staff on high value tasks.

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Cloud

Garage Method website (Manage phase).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/manage

Manage your applications to a

high degree of quality and meet

your SLAs.

DON’T FORGET THE OPS IN DEVOPS

Automated tools monitor the application and notify the team when a

problem occurs.

LEARN

Continuously gain new insights from your customers’ interaction

with your application and the metrics you collect to drive business

decisions.

TAKE-BACK TIPS

Run A/B tests.

Compare two or more versions of a design or

application feature to see which is the most effective. It’s a clear way to

get empirical data so that you can determine the approach that works

best and is most productive.

Drive development with hypotheses.

Developing hypotheses and

testing them throughout the evolution of an application is a key to

delighting your customers. Continuously experiment to deliver the right

solution. Experiments have clear metrics that validate the hypothesis or

requires you to pivot to try something new.

Use analytics tools.

Continue to experiment and learn from your

users based on real-time data.

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Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website (Learn phase).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/learn

Hypothesis: Adding Cross References

Will Increase Monthly Page Views

Cross References

Added

Page

Views

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

Learn from your users as they

interact with the application.

LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY

Use real-time data and analytics to test your hypothesis

and influence your next MVP.

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

Toolchains and pipelines enable the automation required to practice

continuous integration and continuous delivery. In Bluemix, you use

the Continuous Delivery service to create toolchains and pipelines that

make development and operations easier for your team.

BUILD IT. DEPLOY IT. MANAGE IT. LEARN FROM IT.

GET STARTED

reate an integrated DevOps toolchain.

You can

configure tool integrations that support development,

deployment and operations tasks.

Gain insight into how your team works.

Study team

metrics to learn where you can make improvements to

become more efficient.

Continuously integrate and deliver using a delivery

pipeline.

To achieve continuous delivery in a consistent

and reliable way, break the software delivery process

into delivery stages. Code should automatically progress

through each stage.

Learn more

Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website (Toolchains).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/tools

AUTOMATED INTEGRATED TOOLCHAINS

Provide your team with a repeatable development and

deployment process that uses a consistent set of tools.

Insights

Build, test and deliver using

DevOps best practices.

ARCHITECTURES

Architectures provide guidance for building applications in the

Cloud. The reference architecture defines the basic pattern, while

implementations provide specific technology, service, domain and tool

choices to build and deploy that pattern.

PROVEN PARADIGMS

Reference architectures.

Adopt generalized patterns that describe

how to assemble services and technologies leading to industry-ready

solutions in areas such as cognitive, Internet of Things (IoT), and data

and analytics.

Architecture implementations.

Combine a specific set of services

and technologies to implement an application.

Deployed working sample.

Quickly see a realistic working

implementation that you can evaluate and use to jump-start your

development.

GET STARTED

Learn more

Check out the IBM

Cloud

Garage Method website (Architectures).

https://www.ibm.com/devops/method/category/architectures

DON’T INVENT WHEN YOU CAN REUSE

Get off the ground quickly by using reference architectures

developed by IBM experts.

Continuous

Delivery

Proven architectures at

enterprise scale.

IBM Bluemix Garage

Your ideas plus IBM’s proven design thinking process and expertise

equal great solutions on a global scale.

JUMPSTART YOUR TRANSFORMATION

Visit the Garage.

Experience the garage and identify a candidate

business problem.

Attend an IBM Design Thinking workshop.

Use IBM Design

Thinking to understand the use case and target users, define business

hypotheses, and create a minimum viable product (MVP).

Create an MVP.

Design, build, and deploy a minimum viable product

(MVP) quickly.

Transform your development.

Develop your innovation transformation

by adopting and adapting the Garage Method to meet DevOps

objectives at scale.

GET STARTED

Learn more

Check out the IBM

Bluemix

Garage website.

https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/garage

Experience the IBM Bluemix

Garage

Bluemix Garages are embedded within tech incubators in some of the

world’s largest startup communities. Success requires a fundamental

culture shift in work environment. The garages are intentional spaces

for optimal collaboration and innovation.

Come and visit a Bluemix Garage near you

We’re compiling methods, tools, and architectures to get you

started. IBM’s world-wide experts are ready to help.

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