Show:
The Basics
Customer View
Nuts & Bolts
Putting it Together
Final Round
100
Data that describes data
What is Metadata?
100
The environment that is a copy of Production
What is Sandbox
100
Package that has passed unit and system test
What is a Bronze package
100
1 week to develop & test, 1 week in RC
What is the patch schedule
100
The tenant with the demo data
What is GMS (Global Modern Services)
200
Data that belongs to the customer
What is tenanted data
200
The temporary, or transient, environment.
What is Implementation (Impl)
200
Package that has passed integration testing
What is a Silver package
200
16 weeks to develop & test, 10 days to RC
What is the Update Schedule
200
Lowest drop number that will ever move to production (under our current model)
What is 16 (as in 17.0.16.172)
300
Multiple tenants (customers) in a single MySQL Server instance
What is multi-tenancy
300
Type of tenant that is copied into Production
What is a Golden Tenant
300
All development changes are blocked by this
What is a Silverblocker
300
18.0.10.167 represents this many weeks of development
What is 10
300
First production area to get an update
What is Implementation (wave 0)
400
Software delivery model where software and data are centrally hosted on the cloud
What is SaaS (Software as a Service)
400
Tenant that stores Workday's recommended security policies or business processes
What is WDSetup
400
Development environment in the cloud (Amazon)
What is SUV (Single User Virtual)
400
Final verification happens during this phase
What is RC (Release Candidate)
400
Friday nights between 7pm and Midnight (PT)
What is the planned maintenance window
500
Used to structure, store and transport information
What is XML (Extensible Markup Language)
500
Workday built tool to load data from a legacy system into Workday
What is iLoad
500
Tenanted data is refreshed and long running tests are run after this weekly event.
What is the weekly drop
500
Number of days after "gold" before all customers receive a patch.
What is 0 (Patch is deployed to production on the same Friday it is determined to be ready)
500
Two Agile development practices mentioned in this presentation
What is Scrum and Continuous Integration