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SDLC – Future Trends in Tools and ProcessesSDLC – Future Trends in Tools and Processes

Balazs Fejes (FB2)

Director, Product Management

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Interesting Trends

• Processes: Agility vs predictability: Enterprise Agile Portfolios• Tools: VCSes going upstream vs Lifecycle tools going downstream• Release Management: True continuous delivery• If time permits: some other cool stuff

What is doing about these areas?

Processes: Enterprise Agile Portfolio

Agile is king!


• 99% of our clients are sold on Agile• From small projects up to large 100+ developer programs

• We at EPAM know how to scale and do distributed Agile• Organization structures, Scrum of Scrums• Coaching, tracking team work is solved

• Problem: large Enterprises give up (the illusion of) predictable planning• Or even worse: maintain detailed MPP plans, the least agile thing• How to handle cross-team dependencies?• Marketing, business needs dependable release dates • Many client (example: banks) have regulatory constraints on level of

auditing, quality control, documentation

• Solution: Enable Project Portfolio level, cross-team planning, road mapping, monitoring


SAFe Process Framework (Scaling Agile)• Program level governance• Top-down work package assignment• Roll-up progress tracking• Illusion of control is back

Program Portfolio Management Team• PMO• BA pool• Federal, cross-work stream architects• Release Management

Is it still Agile?• Decentralized, Rolling Wave planning• Agile Estimation and Sprint Planning• Self-managing Agile teams• Objective, code and KPI based measures

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Project Portfolio Management Tooling

Software Development Lifecycle Tooling

• In the “old days”: SDLC: single-purpose tools, used by different project roles (BA, PM, testers, technical writers, developers)• Requirements management tool, Project Planning tool,

documentation tool, testing tool, IDE, build management tool

• Modern, Agile SDLC• minimize non-code artifacts• Roles not separated: developer can test, estimate, plan. Tester can

document requirement, implement test code• Minimize duplication

• Solution: Single, end-to-end platform for whole Agile SDLC


Every tool vendor: Let’s build everything in!


Not so great in Project Portfolio – no sub-projects


Not focused on developers, super expensive


• EPAM’s strategic pick is Atlassian• Self-hosting• Extensibility• Configurability

• Not cheap but affordable• We’ll fill in the missing, weak spots• Keep an eye on trends…

EPAM xPMC

Continuous Delivery

• How do you apply Agile to Release Management?• Traditionally the least agile aspect of development• Rigid quality gates• Multi-person approval cycles• Separate teams having access to Production environments

• Problem: On big projects, actual (Agile) development time shrinks by 3-4 months just to get into Waterfall Release Management cycle

• Solution:• Automation, automation, automation• Continuous integration, test automation, deployment automation,

data/schema migration• Fantastic quality to gain stakeholder confidence• Or at least rapid problem resolution

Continuous Delivery

Implications:• Preferably single

system for all aspects (requirements, tasks, workflows, bug reports)

• Smart branching strategies

• Ability to release single features

• Ability to roll back or switch to backup system

• Eventually cut out the middle men!

Continuous Delivery - xPMC

Other cool stuff on the horizon

PaaS – Web-based IDE - this is how we’ll work in a few years

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Thank YouThank YouBalazs Fejes (FB2)

Director, Product Management

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