Putting the Ops in DevOps – An Infrastructure Story

Come learn how a large scale fortune 100 company is infusing DevOps principles into Infrastructure engineering even though DevOps has had a strong presence for many years at Nationwide Insurance. Hear the story of “Putting the Ops in DevOps” after many years of DevOps adoption for our Software Development community. Come on the journey of how infrastructure teams both support Software teams while at the same time need to think about their own product orientation to drive efficiency for the software we serve and the company products we sell. We will illustrate the guiding principles, building blocks and playbooks used to embrace DevOps “Product Principles” and improve how we build, ship, and run our infrastructure in partnership with our software teams.


Attendees will get a perspective of Product Taxonomy at a large fortune 100 company and the complexity of defining products in world that consists of business products, software products, platform as a product, and the journey maps and customer experiences they enable.


See how the equation of Lean+Agile+DevOps is being implemented for Infrastructure teams and how we transformed the way we price and deliver our infrastructure at Nationwide.

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Stephen Farley

Vice President – Infrastructure and Operations, Nationwide Insurance