3. From Chimpanzee to homo sapiens
3
2014 – Gossip 2017 – Common Myth
45 Individuals
1 location
2011 – Intimacy
150 Individuals
Multi Geo
500 Individuals
Multi Geo
4. 4
Agenda
Who we are
What we want to be
Our implementation of Operational Excellence
Some results
The road ahead
5. Intel enables the Connected (and
Smart) Home
cable
DSL
Fiber
Wireless
20
6. 6
• Planning Synchronously – Eng, BL
• Cadence – Start, Stop, Sprint
• Tools – Logging, Version control, storage,
test
• Continuous Delivery – Delivering
integrated solution frequently
• Sustainable – Constant pace indefinitely
• Inspect & adopt – Identical KPIs, Reporting
We Strive to Become a Japanese
Train System
UGW
Cable
WiFi
PON
~500 developers
5 Development sites across the globe
Corporate culture differences
7. Team EventsEvents
Iteration
Planning
Daily
Backlog
Refinement
Team
Demo
Retrospective
Agile journey: work as one team
PI
Planning
Scrum of Scrums
Program
Backlog
Grooming /
RTWG
Inspect & Adapt
Solution Sync
Business alignment
Biz
GM to GM
alignment
Pre- PI planning alignment –
Biz / Eng
Retro Follow-up
Team
Level
Train
level
Solution
Level
12 weeks
End to End process allows full visibility and system
optimization
2017 – building Release Trains
2018 – synchronizing Trains
8. PI
planning
starts
Software, Firmware Development and
integration
Agile in A Silicon Product Life Cycle
8
SoC Hardware
Development
Arch.
Design
Qualification
R
2
R
3
R
6
R
4
R
5
• Agile started as pure SW methodology
• Limited industry experience in embedded systems
• Many platform variants
• Investment in test automation is high
Intel
Reference
Platform
9. • Maximize collocation and
independency
• X-Functional teams break org
boundaries
• Platform teams are optimized for
quick customer response
• New SoC/ IP teams operate outside
the train until Power-On exit
Train team structure
• Platform - 1
• Platform - 2
• Tiger
Platform/
Tiger
• Component - 1
• Component - 2
• Component - N (X-functional).
Components
• OS
• DevOps
Common
10. e journey: Plan Synchronously
Sun
13/01
Mon
14/01
Tue
15/01
Wed
16/01
Thu
17/01
Fri
18/01
Sat
19/01
Sun
20/01
Mon
21/01
Tue
22/01
Wed
23/01
Thu
24/01
Fri
25/01
Sat
26/01
Sun
27/01
Mon
28/01
Tue
29/01
Wed
30/01
Thu
31/01
IP Sprint
Start
of new
PI
Post PI planning –
Solution Level - Full
Report out to Biz
Train 2
US
Holiday
Solution
Dependencies sync
India
Holiday
Train 4
Solution
Dependencies sync
Train 3
Train 1 final
closure
Solution
Dependencies sync
Train 1
All RTs running on same cadence allowing us to deliver
aligned CHD solution
11. Before Gated
Check-In
After Gated
Check-In
Master Branch Broken ~6 d/month ~0 d/month
Rate of merges blocked
due to test failures
15%
0%
10%
20%
30%
Jan-18 Jan-19
Manual Merge (%)
11
Agile journey: continuous delivery
L1
Version
controlled,
regular
scripted
builds
L2
Frequent
polling
builds
L3
Automatic
Gated
Check-In
L4
Scheduled
integration
L5
Continuous
Delivery
Improve Quality, Efficiency & Velocity by Optimizing
Engineering Flows via Unified DevOps Solutions
Today
Jan
2018
Q4
2019
13. Q1’17
Q4‘18
Agile journey: execution scorecard
Agile methodology is showing
positive results
40% -> 80%Delivery to commit
+133%Velocity
-50%Quality - GA to Launch
-50%Average Release Delay
+20%Commit to ask
-42%
+30%
Customer support
- Case Open to Close time
- Resolved by field
Fusion
Customer
Support
Business
Software
Dev.
Software/
System Val.
Hardware
System
Eng.
14. Agile journey: Sense and Respond
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
Retrospectives
on a regular
cadence
Take action on
identified areas
for improvement
Plans work
based on
historical
velocity
Negotiates
acceptance
criteria w/PO
Process to
manage
interrupts
w/scope &
priorities
Consistently
delivers while
maintaining
work-life
balance
Focused on
team goals, not
individual tasks
Team
collaborates on
a daily basis
Understands the
business value
of work
Pre-Agile
PI01
PI02
PI03
PI04
PI05
uPI01
uPI02
uPI03
• Quick jump in: team collaboration, alignment on shared goals and priorities
• Strong foundation for continuous improvement
• Must improve on: Interrupt management, Business – Engineering collaboration
15. The Road Ahead
• Solidify Long term planning
• Increase value delivery through improved velocity:
• Reduction of supported active branches #
• Architectural convergence
• Reach L5 – Continuous delivery
• Lead and further leverage open source solutions
• Systematically measure value delivery
Delivering reference platforms to enable efficient scale. Each platform is a solution.
Platforms consist of multiple components delivered by different teams: Multiple broadband technologies, Network processor, WiFi, Ethernet, Voice Over IP. More components are delivered by partners.
4 main development sites (350BB+ ?CW): Israel, Poland, Germany, India. Each Release train is spread across 2 sites minimum plus off shore contractor employees.
Teams are coming from acquisitions: different culture, different process.
Accelerate the data center growth by enabling the connectivity. Intel is not in the small SoC that are being embedded in the majority of the home appliances. The smartness happen in the cloud. The connectivity is a business by itself. Connectivity is about major investment in R&D and Standards.
There’s a reason Intel alone can execute on this vision
As a company, we work end to end – from server with the programming to cloud to consumer home gateway.
Intel is the only silicon company that plays in all places, allowing us to implement solutions that optimize the entire network.
We’re taking all the same innovations we’ve developed for the cloud and driving it down.
We enable the “cloudification of the access network” – more flexible, programmable devices that extend all the way to the edge of the home and make it possible to run different components on the same server.
This helps make it easier, faster and cheaper for operators to upgrade services and innovate, thereby avoiding commoditization.
This is shifting the basis for competition from hardware to software.
Within our own company, we have access to world-class assets that are critical to delivering a secure, well-functioning smart home:
We’re embedding McAfee security software on routers.
Our Internet of Things Group (IOTG) is ensuring software compatibility between gateways/routers and smart devices.
We’re porting SSG software assets onto the home gateway to create vertically integrated systems.
No other company can provide these robust offerings.
Platforms consist of multiple components delivered by different teams: Multiple broadband technologies, Network processor, WiFi, Ethernet, Voice Over IP. More components are delivered by partners.
Mission statement.
Japan has a reputation for being an efficient nation, and the train system is one of the ways in which this reputation was made.
We have 4 trains in CHD 3 of them in PECS after PON moved to CTIC. Last year when I showed you the health score card some of them were running on steam. Not anymore and this year we aspire to turn all of them to high speed trains work efficiently together to deliver solutions.
What have changed in 2018? Instead of each train free running on crossing paths with collisions happening all the time where WiFi releases are not synched with cable and UGW. Each has its own mode of operations, tools… some trains had so many stations (branch support platform models) that they hardly moved.
Sustainability achieved by management commitment.
Agile has defind 10 principles I distilled them to 6 here in.
Late last year, one particular train story went viral because one specific train departed 20 seconds early. The guilty party was the Tsukuba Express, which travels between Tokyo and the city of Tsukuba. It left the platform at 9:44:20 instead of 9:44:40 as scheduled. To remedy this blasphemous situation, the company released a statement apologizing for the issue, citing that the driver failed to read the schedule properly and promised it wouldn’t happen again. As expected, social media users had a field day.
Solution dependencies- all RTEs and Product Marketing
Marut I suggesting to split the wifi and hold it Oct/10 and Monday Oct/15 – Noa to talk to wifi and marketing
Ami- suggesting the wifi to close before everyone
Predictability (green): We made great progress in delivering to commitment measuring content and release date. starting with 60% average on all trains we ended the year in 80% minimum. For the 1st time all trains meat or exceeded the 80% threshold.
Velocity (red) – 20% more features per month. Yet customers still complain on our velocity and marked it as our main improvement goal. We deliver less than 50% of what the business ask in every PI. Our timeline is still behind competition when it comes to major platforms eg XB6, XB7.
Quality (Yellow)- made progress on bug backlog reduction yet. Yet issues like Docsis certification failures and long qualification of key platforms like XB6, Magenta due to quality issues.
Security (red): We missed our targets for UGW and cable SDL compliancy by 4Q/18. Plans have been pushed out by a year causing overhead due to the need for wavers and delays in our deliveries. We must make a mindset shift when it comes to Security and find ways to leverage it as a competitive advantage.
Customer support (Green): Great improvement in our front line performance. In 2018 we have invested in upskilling our CAE capabilities in WiFi, GW SW, Networking, Docsis and PON through massive training, job rotation in engineering and the establishment of platform teams and tiger teams focused on quick response to customer immediate need. We also increased by ??% our WiFi CAE workforce in TW and China. It all results with more than 40% reduction in response time and 50% more tickets resolved by CAE Vs going back previously to engineering allowing the engineering team to push forward our product velocity.
Resource for Success (yellow):
New cable team in Poland 29 engineers on board according to plan before MARS. Ramping on Netwrorking and now on GW. Already part of the PI.
WiFI support in China grew by 100% from 4 1BB+3CW to 8 all are BB.
WiFI expert in TW – 50% growth.
New WiFi team in BGR - ?? Contributing to the PI03 for the 1st time.
Lastly I would like to thank for the steering team of this conference I am sure you will mention all the names later.
Have a great day.
Thank you.