An evolutionary DevOps journey at BCITO Te Pukenga.

BCITO Te Pukenga

The
Journey
Three years journey
Three phases
1.Continuous deployment
culture
2.Moving to one integrated
platform
3.Integrating Automation
tools with our new
environment

DevOps
cycle

First Year
Coach the team in Agile delivering
Be cohesive as a team and not working in silo
Have process in place so that we were not
constantly reactive to request of the business
Somewhat implement Scrum/Lean framework

Second
Year
Team that adapted to a new way of
work jumped on the Agile Train
Employed new staff – looked at
mindset and adaptability first and
good strong engineering skillset
second
We focused a lot of style of
communication for each team and
how to collaborate with the business

Third Year
• As the team we started the DevOps way
of Code – Test – Deploy – Release
• Started implementing automation tools
and improving our Quality Test Strategy
• Fixed tech debt – our code coverage was
5% we needed to be at 75%
• Then we looked at Copado – towards the
end of year 2022

Gap
Analysis
• Copado Team can access to a
business case tool
• They helped us and advised
through the process, and it was
very transparent
• We reviewed Bitbucket, Azure,
AWS, but Copado still scored
high as fit for purpose CI/CD
tool for our environment

Copado Salesforce Continuous Deployment
▪ The GSD Team is currently manually deploying Hapai changes into Production.
▪ This creates many inefficiencies such as:
▪ Manually tracking metadata changes
▪ Manually running tests, not having a shared system of record
▪ Inefficiencies in rolling back deployments
▪ Lead time between development and feature in production is currently 4
weeks
▪ Out of sync sandboxes causing unnecessary overhead and difficulty for
development
Problem to
Solve
▪ Copado is native to Salesforce.
▪ The Delivery Team tested a couple of tools Bitbucket and Copado
▪ Bitbucket required external knowledge or an investment upfront
▪ Copado is known by an extensive dev network globally, and also both of our
internal delivery team is Copado certified which means internal experience
already.
Market
Analysis
▪ Copado is used by a large number of global clients (Coke, Banking and other
Government agencies).
▪ Provide an extensive network of user support
▪ Upskill our user with Copado Academy
▪ Once implemented is easily scalable
Customer
Segments
▪ The team will naturally evolve in a DevOps structure
• Release Manager
• 2 Admin users ( shared between PO, Agile Team Lead, Test Lead)
▪ 3 User Admin (these will be shared between Carlo, Vasu, Bill and one tester)
Delivery
Structure
▪ If teams can coordinate more easily without being
burdened by inefficient processes, they have more time
to deliver features. More value is delivered to the
business.
Mission &
Vision
▪ N/A. As mentioned there are many tools out there that enables continuous
delivery of features and value. However, we found that since Copado is native to
Salesforce, and due to the inside skills and knowledge it would be easier to
implement and maintain the tool.
• Also cost wise it is quite competitive with the other tools.
Competitor
Analysis

Deployment Tool Highlights_Copado
• Deployments from one org to other org for both Metadata and Data Deployments are handled
• User stories will be synced with Copado hence can select and commit the data to the feature
branch accordingly
• Git operation are performed very well to the repos
• Can track deployments under user stories to track the stage of deployment reached
• It has an inbuilt apex test run and static code analysis that helps the deployment process
alongside better error handling
• Minimize overlaps and component conflicts resolution on Metadata
• Supports goal of accelerating releases, allowing minimum risk to deployments providing insight
into performance through analytics
• Package Once, Deploy to All- destructive pipeline creation ‘mass back promote’ from an upper
environment to all of the lower environments that are behind, with a minimum of 3 clicks!

Return on Investment
• It will reduce the efforts to create package.xml manually and deploy the changes
• Another positive impact is this can track commits to an org to iterative if it's traversed in an
organized way and does not need separate maintenance
• Copado provides a complete package of maintaining the development and repositories in a
common platform. When pipelines are set that changes will move from one org to the final org in a
very organized manner
• Creates pull requests and performs static code analysis at the time of deployment of the changes.
One can choose if we need to deploy all changes
• Automates many of the manual, repetitive tasks while also providing wizards for on-boarding and
repository-related tasks.
• Copado standardizes and automates complex deployments across all environments thus speeding
up deployment time while greatly reducing errors and failed deployments.

Copado
Implementation
:
• We were assigned an implementation
team.
• We had few scheduled weeks of
collaboration between our delivery team
and the Copado implementation team
• We had training from Copado on how to
kick it off once implemented.
• We have regular monthly meetings with
Copado to check how we are doing, and if
there are any issues that they can
address
• You really build a partnership with Copado
and that they are not just your provider

Life with
Copado
:
• A release is taking us between 5-20 mins
compared to 6 hours.
• Overall team increased happiness and job
satisfaction.
• The team has more time to innovate and
continuously improve.
• There is overall less stress
• Quality has improved.
• Copado keeps all the environments in
sink.
• If something goes wrong, Copado has the
ability to address it quite well.

In conclusion
:
• Establish a good team and culture that
foster collaboration and innovation.
• Implement good release process
practices that initially doesn’t involve
automation for the sake of automation.
• Clean up tech dept
• Integrate automation tools
• Reach out to Copado if that is something
you would like to pursue.
• Thank you ☺

Kia ora from Copado

Who is Copado?
‘20 VALUE STREAM MGT
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Exchange & Testing
‘20 DEVOPS
ANALYTICS
‘19 DATA
DEPLOY
‘19 CONTINUOUS
DELIVERY
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HUB
‘17 VALUE BASED
PLANNING
‘16 COLLABORATIVE
DEVELOPMENT
‘15 RELEASE MANAGEMENT
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Connect with us
Managing Director APAC Alliances Director ANZ/SEA
astoney@copado.com
+61 452 438 678
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mkeen@copado.com
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