Case Study

Energy Producer: Developer Experience Pilot

Accelerating a pilot to improve developer productivity, reduce security risks and reliance on technology teams. ​

At a Glance

DigiRen helped a global energy company improve developer productivity by defining requirements and enabling a pilot for cloud-native development environments. Facing unclear needs, infrastructure interdependencies, and lengthy solution evaluations, DigiRen clarified the problem, secured executive buy-in, and created a targeted pilot. This streamlined provisioning, reduced reliance on tech teams, and positioned the client for secure, scalable developer operations.

Yes
Endorsement and buy-in ​
Yes
Cloud provider readiness for support​
Yes
Pilot now in execution mode​

Challenge

Our client is a global energy and resources company that owns and operates resource and energy assets worldwide. Our client has several in-house development teams, each with unique requirements from developer machines. The desktop Standard Operating Environment (SOE) was unable to deliver against this requirement without manual workarounds to address security and connectivity challenges. Furthermore, inconsistent operational and approval processes meant long provisioning times and lost developer productivity, which was essential for new energy asset operations.​​

The client had identified potential solutions, however they were facing three problems:​

  • Unclear developer and machine requirements and interdependencies on essential infrastructure e.g. networks, storage​​
  • Lack of clarity on solutions to meet the requirements. ​​
  • Unsure of the best way to avoid lengthy solution evaluation exercises and move into action.​​

The Challenge for DigiRen

To help the client improve developer productivity and reduce security risks and reliance on technology teams by providing expertise in enabling a pilot to test cloud native cloud offerings.

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Approach

  1. Agreed on the priority focus for the developer environments (e.g. Mobility) and defined the baseline requirements and interdependencies.​​
  2. Defined the problem statement and positioned this with technology executives to clear up confusion with other similar initiatives.​​
  3. Created development environment definitions to assist in identifying developer provisioning solutions, taking into consideration specific criteria (e.g. Cloud first) ​​
  4. Defined a simple pilot approach to improve the development environment provisioning, including schedule, expected outcomes and benefits.​​
  5. Raised awareness of the pilot approach, scope, schedule and expected outcomes with the executive to ensure ongoing engagement and buy-in.​​
  6. Engage with the cloud providers to obtain buy-in and commitment to assist in executing the pilot.​​

Outcomes

  • Executive-level understanding and endorsement of the developed environment problem statements and immediate next steps to be executed.​​
  • Endorsed developer environment definitions to support the identification of potential solutions.​​
  • Agreed on the most suitable option to provide self-service pre-configured environments to developers​​
  • Endorsement of the pilot approach, plan and schedule.​​
  • Obtained cloud provider buy-in and ensured readiness to support upcoming pilot (now in execution mode).​
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