How BBC Sport Scales Engineering

Keith MitchellGroup Engineering Manager, Future Media Sportt: @specializede : keith.mitchell@bbc.co.uk

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HOMEPAGEABOUT THE BBC

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96 millionBrazil World Cup - The Open Championship(12 June - 20 July)

77.6 million (June)Biggest month in our entire historybit.ly/BBCSportRecord

A New Start & Home - MediaCityUK

People & ProcessEngineering Excellence

Build & Release Pipeline

Tooling

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No blame just cake!

CI (improvement)

Wagile, Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan, WTF ?

The team

Communication (Tickets)

Ceremonies

The Dev Team

The Delivery Team

Pay Attention to the entire chainWhat’s your cycle time ?

The value isn’t important, the journey will be !

People & Process

Engineering ExcellenceBuild & Release Pipeline

Tooling

BDD & TDD

Acceptance Criteria (ACs)

Moved ACs out of JIRA / Confluence

AC in version control

AC drives automated tests

Automated Testson every commit

Engineering Excellence and ‘4 Good Things’ (TM)

Meaningful code reviews

Developers being accountable for non-functional requirements(DoD, NFR checklist)

Continuous integration

Automated acceptance testing

Common Language(Gherkin Syntax -> Ruby step defs)

Communication

Easy to know when you are done(Good spec = good tests)

http://cukes.info

The 3 4 Amigos

- Pre-Amigos

- Three Amigos

- Agree/Post Amigos

Ruby & PHP App(pain in the ass)

Moving to more Client-side JS

Cucumber worked for a while...

BA (& dev) driven change

It Should over Given, When, Then scenarios

Should ITgithub.com/bbc-sport/ShouldIT

People & Process

Engineering Excellence

Build & Release PipelineTooling

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

Hack Days & Innovation Time

Benefit to the business & the team(less faff!)

People & Process

Engineering Excellence

Build & Release Pipeline

Tooling

Toolingleads to

Practices & behavioursleads to

Culture

(so important, we made a 5th team)

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

pain !

“works on my machine”

Poor data

1 version of package

pain !

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

pain !

“works on my machine”

Poor data

1 version of package

pain !

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

pain !

Poor data

1 version of package

pain !

new platform

livesandbox diff

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

new platform

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

pain !

pain !

new platformmagic faff reducing toolbox

int test stage live

as live production

Dev

Developer

Operations

sandbox

shared platform

NEWSSPORT HOMEPAGE

rpm rpm

A Sport Engineer

rpm

rpm rpm

done

pain barrier !

must be stable & trustable

Audience

bbc.co.uk/developer

pain !

Good data

pain !

new platformmagic faff reducing toolbox

trust

confidence

less faff

happy team

predictablilty

SOCHI

That’s the journey so far

Next: CD / Dev Ops / Data Driven / Lean Analytics / RUM . . .

. . . more chance for us to lower the faffage* !* faffage may not be a real word

The tools are here :

github.com/bbc-sport/ShouldIT

github.com/bbc-sport/viewporter

github.com/BBC-News/Wraith

More coming soon. . .

Thanks for your time

Keith MitchellGroup Engineering Managert: @specializede : keith.mitchell@bbc.co.uk