How Liaoning Mobile Won the DevOps Team Award: Inside Their Agile Transformation

On October 28, 2022, the GOITI 2022 IT Technology Leadership Awards ceremony was held in Shanghai, where China Mobile Communications Group Liaoning Co., Ltd.'s Information Technology Center won the Communication Industry DevOps Team Award.

Team Overview and Background

The team aims to meet growing user needs through supply‑side structural reforms, requiring rapid, efficient IT responses. To address the gap between fast‑growing business demand and limited R&D resources, they adopted Scrum‑based agile methods, built a DevOps toolchain, and established talent‑development mechanisms to create cross‑functional, self‑organizing teams.

Implementation Plan

Set Goals: Align business, development, and operations to deliver high‑quality, high‑value features quickly.

Define Processes: Introduce Scrum, create practical agile standards and frameworks.

Build Teams: Foster agile talent, break silos between development, testing, and operations.

Deploy Systems: Implement an integrated DevOps platform with automated testing, CI/CD tools, and unified release management.

Challenges Faced

Lack of a repeatable DevOps methodology and talent shortage; addressed by joining industry‑led DevOps empowerment programs and training 16 staff members.

Learning curve for new tools (Maven, Git, Nexus, unit testing); mitigated through training and pilot projects.

Conflict between DevOps practices and existing IT security policies; resolved by containerizing deployments and using artifact promotion across isolated environments.

System Highlights

The DevOps R&D‑Operations Integrated Platform includes:

Unified Portal (AIDO): A one‑stop entry for project managers, developers, and testers.

Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CMP): Links requirement development, quality assurance, and production deployment.

Automated Testing Platform (智测云 ATP): Provides self‑service automated test case management and result analysis.

Metrics Dashboard: Visualizes multi‑dimensional KPI reports for demand, version control, builds, tests, and deployments.

Results and Honors

Since the pilot began in October 2019, monthly delivered requirements rose from 49 to 58, defect rate dropped from 12 to 2 per 100 stories, unit‑test coverage reached 80%, and API automated‑test coverage hit 100%. The team’s proactive work earned them the DevOps Team Award and a Level‑3 assessment from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.