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Scenario 2 Quiz – Organizing DevOps

Question 1:
What could the company do differently to avoid having to spend time coordinating across teams?

  • Organize the teams around business domains instead of around technologies.
  • Have a Dev team, an Ops team, and a DevOps team.
  • Hire more people to process tickets in the system.
  • Add a new “coordination team.”

Answer: Organize the teams around business domains instead of around technologies.
Explanation: This approach minimizes cross-team coordination by aligning teams around business needs and product goals, leading to better efficiency.

Question 2:
What could have been done to avoid the missing schema change?

  • Avoid bug fixes to the master branch.
  • Use automated deployment.
  • Prevent developers from making schema changes.
  • Routinely check for any unapplied schema updates.

Answer: Use automated deployment.
Explanation: Automated deployment ensures all updates, including schema changes, are consistently applied, reducing errors and omissions.

Question 3:
Should the development team have merged the development branch back into the master branch sooner?

  • When the code was complete, it should have been merged into the master branch.
  • Someone should have merged their own pull request instead.
  • The team was correct to have a long-lived branch for every issue.
  • It would have been more effective to make a mono repo instead.

Answer: When the code was complete, it should have been merged into the master branch.
Explanation: Merging frequently ensures that the main branch stays up to date, preventing major conflicts down the line.

Question 4:
What could the development team have done differently to avoid the merge conflicts at the end of the month?

  • Prevent code drift through better coordination across the team.
  • Provide Roopa with training to resolve merge conflicts.
  • The team could have spent time designing the system so there were no conflicts.
  • Use Continuous Integration to merge more frequently.

Answer: Use Continuous Integration to merge more frequently.
Explanation: Frequent merges through CI help detect and resolve conflicts early, making them easier to manage.