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A company that focuses on building custom loan software workflows, managing robust reports, and automating credit decisions was looking to improve their speed to market. They had already engaged with Sketch to build a proof-of-concept CI/CD pipeline leveraging a largely pre-selected technology stack. Their hope was to prove an automated end-to-end pipeline could work for them, then iterate to expand upon its capabilities.
One critical step, post-POC, would involve training the broader technical team contributors on the DevOps mindset and demonstrating to them the capabilities that they would be entrusted to expand upon.
We mutually agreed to prove out the POC pipeline first, then present our findings before requesting time from the broader technical team for the DevOps training. After just a handful of iterations, Sketch was able to demonstrate the CI/CD automated capability. The client agreed it was time to deliver our DevOps Bootcamp to the client’s broader team.
Over the course of three days, two of Sketch’s technical trainers delivered a tailored DevOps Bootcamp that incorporated many of the technologies that would be made available to the client team moving forward. This customization to the training came from our POC efforts. This ultimately made the content of the training even more relevant and applicable to the participants. Every part of the training included a direct connection to how they would implement and enhance the existing end-to-end DevOps pipeline.
By providing the training after the period of immersion and delivery of a POC, Sketch was able to ensure the content of the training was most applicable to the trainees. Therefore, the client’s team was able to seamlessly transition from the classroom to their real-world environment and pick up where the POC left off. The narrowness of the end-to-end POC proved to the team the possibility of automating the pipeline. From there, they were able to begin adding to the automation capabilities, so the pipeline continues to become more robust at all stages.
The client ended up with all of the following:
Just as importantly, the client now has the skills, knowledge, and tools to continue iterating on their DevOps pipeline and advancing in their CI/CD journey.
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