1. USAA Development Life Cycle
02/08/2018
USAA Development Life Cycle
Grant Lindsey – Engineer
Greg Weaver – IT Director

3. Waterfall – The Old USAA

4. Waterfall Phases CD Phase – Concept Definition
CV1 Phase – Concept Validation 1 (Requirements)
CV2 Phase – Concept Validation 2 (Analysis & Design)
FSD1 Phase – Full Scale Development 1 (Coding, Unit Testing & Integration Testing)
FSD2 Phase – Full Scale Development 2 (System Testing & Implementation)
IMP Phase – Implementation (Warranty)

5. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – The New USAA

6. Agile Tracking

7. Overview USAA Technology Project Initialization Development Testing
Release
Maintenance
Note: from an Agile – Scrum perspective

8. USAA Technology Linux, Java, IBM Websphere
Moving towards cloud-based containerized architecture
New web, REACT, presentation and serverside JS, investigating AWS
Supplier Systems
Could be anything…
Real Estate’s main supplier uses .NET

9. Project Initialization
What is the business need?
Gathering requirements, writing the User Acceptance Criteria
Finding the right team for the job
I’m a developer, why are we talking about this part of the cycle???

10. Development Assigning the work to the engineers Where’s the code?
Compiling the workspace
Running locally****
Unit testing – CI/CD
Merge with stream

11. Testing Integration testing Integration to Staging/Runway environments
Integration testing with your team
Integration to Staging/Runway environments
Company wide, larger scale end-to-end tests
Environment as Prod-like as possible
Analysis of defect severity

12. Release Pre-Prod environments Multiple server farm rolling deploy
Production Validation
Business Signoff
Go back to sleep

13. Maintenance Warranty period Major Incident Management
Ticket support / Knowledge Articles

14. Q&A ?