Identify the roles, responsibilities, and lifecycle of a integration project17% of the exam
Integration project team roles and the C4E
How MuleSoft builds a DevOps team structure in four steps, the six tiger-team roles and what each one owns, and why a Center for Enablement (C4E) replaces the bottlenecked Integration Competency Center with a cross-functional team that drives asset reuse.
Describe the roles and responsibilities within a typical MuleSoft integration project team.
~7 min read · 3 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Order the four steps MuleSoft gives for building a DevOps team structure and say what each step does.
- Match a responsibility to one of the six DevOps team roles MuleSoft lists.
- Say what the Scrum Master, architects, business analysts, developers, testers and API lifecycle roles own on a MuleSoft integration project.
- Describe who staffs a C4E, what it is charged with and how its success is measured.
- Explain why a C4E improves on an Integration Competency Center or traditional Center of Excellence.
Key terms:
- Tiger team: the first DevOps team, made of existing or new experts with a multidisciplinary skill set.
- Center for Enablement (C4E): a cross-functional team tasked with productizing, publishing and harvesting reusable assets and best practices.
- Integration Competency Center (ICC): a cross-functional group that combines integration skills, resources and processes into one group.
- Center of Excellence (CoE): a traditional team that runs an API platform, develops APIs and manages their operation with centralized expertise.
Key facts
DevOps team first step
- Detail
- Assemble a tiger team of multidisciplinary experts
DevOps team last step
- Detail
- Measure effectiveness with KPIs, continuously
Example roles
- Detail
- Six, outlined by TechBeacon; not every team has them all
Scrum Master on integration projects
- Detail
- Leads and facilitates the scrum team and coordinates customer, vendors and SIs; does not code or test
Core project team
- Detail
- MuleSoft and Salesforce teams, with architects and developers from both
API lifecycle roles
- Detail
- Small orgs: one API manager; larger: analyst/admin (design), integration developer and application network architect (implement), API admin (manage)
Security engineer
- Detail
- Ensures security is always first
C4E delivery model
- Detail
- Production-and-consumption-based
C4E setup
- Detail
- Six steps, from assessing capability to measuring KPIs
C4E success measure
- Detail
- Consumption and reuse of assets
ICC weakness
- Detail
- Centralized knowledge becomes a bottleneck
- Source
- ICC (opens in a new tab)
Sources for this section (6)
- DevOps team structurewww.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Scrum Master strategyblogs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Integration Best Practicesblogs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Full lifecycle API managementwww.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- What is a C4E?blogs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- ICCwww.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Why does MuleSoft say assembling people comes before anything else in DevOps?
- When a C4E measures its success, what does it measure against?
- Which role monitors new feature releases and prioritizes the user experience?
- Why can a C4E keep up with changing best practices better than an ICC?
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