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Utilizing Distributed Dojos to Transform a
Workforce
Aimee BechtleCapital One Card Technology
November 8, 2016
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“What’s in your Wallet?”
@adbechtle
Capital One is a innovative
technology company that happens to
manufacture credit cards
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Capital One is in the middle of a massive technology
transformation
Open-Source
Micro-services
REST APIs DevOps Culture
Public Cloud
@adbechtle
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A 2016 Card Technology goal is to accelerate the technology transformation
Invest in our talent
@adbechtle
Establish EnablingOrganization
Grow resiliently Sustainably well-managed
Always Secure
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In 2015 Card Tech Advanced Engineering was established to support the Capital One and Card Tech Mission
@adbechtle
CTAE
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Early automation solves problems
and reveals new opportunities
@adbechtle
DEV Instance Utilization
IP Address Consumption
ResourceEncryption
Best Practices, Policies &
ProceduresHarness
TaggingStandards
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Our backlog was growing and our headcount was not. We needed to re-think our approach to meet the demand and
continue supporting the Card Tech mission
@adbechtle
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After visiting Target CTAE implemented distributed Dojos across our three locations
@adbechtle
Formed Teams Divided Intent Got Volunteers Established Parallel Cadence
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We have completed 4, 8-week Program Increments utilizing the Dojo model and are planning on its indefinite continuation
@adbechtle
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The CTAE Dojo model has been
very successful at upskilling our associates…
@adbechtle
Programming Languages
Cloud Technologies
VersionControl
Infrastructure-As-Code
Containerization
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…And at delivering solutions...
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Instance Right-Sizing
Reference Implementations
Security GroupAutomation
AMI Compliance
Maturity Dashboard
Orphan ELBs
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…And creating more opportunities. The Dojang is a problem-solving model useful when working in an economy of scale
@adbechtle
ID Problem
Form aTeam
DesignTarget
SystemForm MVPIntent
WorkSprints
ReleaseMVP
Internal Open
Source
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
IterateThrough
8
The Dojang Process
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The Dojo and the Dojang are the Yin and Yang of our Card Tech Transformation
@adbechtle
DOJODOJANG
• Korean “place of the way”
• Problem resolution
• Existing skillset
• Ephemeral Operation
• Japanese “place of the way”
• Strategy Fulfillment
• Skills transformation
• Continuous Operation
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We are still learning and we are
leveraging the lessons learned
from each Dojo and Dojang
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Learning >= Delivering
OnboardingChecklist
Team Building &Tooling
Dedication
Recognition, Praise…Support!
~100%
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The CTAE strategy is effective in supporting our technology transformation
@adbechtle
Enabling organization
SkillingTalent
Automation Strategy
Dojos & Dojangs
“The best place to start is to start”
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At Capital One we aren’t just consumers of open-source we are also contributors
@adbechtle
https://developer.capitalone.com/open-source/
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