Dave Snowden, Director, Cynefin Centre, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge.

Dave will show how to map and change culture and discuss the need to avoid homogeneity.

Kieran Smith, Vice President, J.P. Morgan

MMA as most of us will is the acronym of Mixed Martial Arts. It’s based on the principle of having a broad base of knowledge and experience with a Mixture of different Martial Arts. MMA fighters, often specialise in one martial art, but to have any chance of continued success, they need to be strong in every area of their sport and as an Agile Technology Organisation, we need to be the same. In this talk, I’d like to set the scene and then go into various agile patterns and what they enable your team to do. I will draw experience from some large projects where we’ve spent some time looking at the Large-Scale Scrum framework and how we could apply it. In both cases, we decided to take an “MMA approach” by introducing complimentary practices from the worlds of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, XP and more to find the approach that suited the fight we were about to have.

Stephen Walters, Field CTO, CEM Digital (EMEA), Everbridge

Organizations are becoming mired in DevOps transformations that are stuck in a middle ground according to the latest Puppet State of DevOps Report (2021). Value Stream Management aims to kick these organizations on by applying the necessary cultural and lean changes required, and by applying the principles directly to ITSM, we can add new efficiencies to team workflows and incident resolution. This session will demonstrate why applying Value Stream Management to Incident Management is as important as its application to Software Delivery and how that can be achieved through a Digital Operations Platform.

Brijesh Deb, Principal Consultant, Infosys

Faster time to market is extremely important for businesses now. However, it’s not just the to market or the quality of the product that is in question.

The points to ponder include:

1. Availability
2. Performance
3. Latency
4. Monitoring
5. Disaster recovery and Emergency Response
6. Change Management
7. Capacity planning
8. Efficiency

While all of these are key elements of engineering tied to development and operations, close observation tells you that there is a lot of testing involved in all of this. What makes it even more interesting is with more and more businesses moving away from monolithic architecture to a more microservices architecture model site reliability is transforming to service relieability which means that testing has a much bigger role to play.

The key takeaways of this talk look at the aspects of testing relevant to SRE.

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Moderator:

• Colin Deady, Agile Lead, PPS

Panellist:

• Jonas Menesklou, CEO, askui
• Artie Kostriukov, Chief Business Development Officer, TestGear
• Stephen Walters, Field CTO, CEM Digital (EMEA), Everbridge
• Patrick Ross, Software Evangelist, testRigor
• Pankaj Agarwal, Product Owner, Digitate
• Dave Snowden, Director, Cynefin Centre, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge

Richard J Self, Senior Lecturer in the Governance of Advanced and Emerging Technologies, University of Derby

However carefully we design, build and test our systems, if the data that we have are of uncertain veracity or are biased, we will not be able to trust our systems. The real question we need to ask ourselves is, how can we identify untrustworthy and biased data?

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Marjolein Pordon, Low-code software tester, Squerist

What is the value of software testing? We all feel that testing is something that ‘needs to be done’. But testing costs money: hours spent, test tooling, etc. How do we know that this money is well spent?

Software testers are basically modest people. But to emphasize our importance, we need to be heard, so we have to speak up! We need to show the decision makers where it hurts the most: in their wallets! Because the costs of bad testing show the importance of good test quality.

Want to know more? Join my talk!

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Vasantha Priya, Product Owner, Digitate

Due to the pandemic, the adoption of digital technologies has been phenomenal across the verticals and horizontals. There has been a behavioral shift in day-to-day life that includes working from home, door-step service delivery, digital payments etc. Every business understands that the increase in digitization has led to an exponential rise in customer expectations. Hence, there is a rapid demand from for organizations to deliver applications in the shortest time possible without compromising on the quality.

Software testing is no more a manual, siloed process. It has been evolving over decades with several test automation tools being introduced into the market. However, traditional test automation will not be sufficient to handle the rising agile and DevOps practices for software development, and hence comes the need for a futuristic approach- Autonomous testing.

This session talks about how autonomous testing that leverages AI/ML techniques, can be used to deliver better quality applications and take it to the market faster ultimately making your , test designing autonomous and achieve rapid application development.

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Victoria Alexiou, Product Manager, PEOPLECERT, Intl.

More and more organizations are adopting DevOps, where 76% of them are either already working on their transformation initiative or are in the planning stage. However, not all organizations manage to realize the same benefits as Amazon and Spotify do.
To successfully implement DevOps, one needs to take care of the entire DevOps Full Stack, i.e., Culture, Practices and Automation. Our experience shows, that in regions and industries where the notion of DevOps has not matured enough, organizations tend to overfocus their efforts towards tooling and neglect the components of Culture and Practices, thus they are not getting the results they aim for.
During our session we will discuss what DevOps Culture is, its importance and urgency, which tools exist and their uses, the common mistakes and pitfalls organizations tend to fall in and how we can convert this modern fairytale into a “and they lived happily ever after” story.

Moderator:

• Colin Deady, Agile Lead, PPS

Panellist:

• Jonas Menesklou, CEO, askui
• Mike Harris, Programme Secretary, SIGiST, BCS
• Tom Hoyland, Senior Agile and DevOps Lead, Sky Betting and Gaming
• Victoria Alexiou, Product Manager, PeopleCert
• Patrick Ross, Software Evangelist, testRigor