This event is co-located with Test Expo 2019.
Agile and DevOps share environments that facilitate working together. Spurred by greater demand for excellence, these methods are more than simply adopting new tools and processes. The synergy involves building an evolving and a stable Continuous Integration (CI) Infrastructure, as well as an automated pipeline that moves deliverables from development to production to meet users’ expectations. They can work together, and the entire build process should be transparent, and it should enable and support development and operations. This transformation depends on: significant changes in culture; roles and responsibilities; team structure; tools and processes.
There will be sharing of practical experiences, extended knowledge-sharing presentations, “Round Table” discussions for sharing insights and industry trends. This coupled with networking has the scope for open-mindedness and sharing throughout the day. There are pre and post conference workshops too on specific topics. An exhibition alongside featuring leading service providers, consultants and vendors from the three topic areas – Testing and Agile & DevOps.
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We are inviting speakers – thought leaders, subject experts and start up entrepreneurs – to share their knowledge and enthusiasm about their work and their vision in the Agile & DevOps Expo.
We understand that successful projects are written up as “White Papers”. Please share these with us. But projects that did not achieve their targets – “Black Papers” – are of interest to us too. They can be a very important topics of discussion / panels that you can present. Talk to us about both, we welcome your input.
Please complete the speaker’s response form and submit a proposal to present at this event.
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Dave Snowden, CTO, Cognitive Edge
Mark Lines, Managing Partner / DA Fellow, Disciplined Agile
Keith Watson, Director of DevOps iHCM, ADP
Agile methods and tools have helped development teams focus on delivering smaller pieces of function quickly. This enables teams to test their assumptions about the explicit and implied needs of their target users earlier in the development process. However often these development processes are delivered by waterfall delivery processes which negate some of the advantages of the agile approach. This presentation will use example from various projects, how using a continuous delivery approach which takes advantage of DevOps tools, patterns and practices as well as cultural change, can unlock the innovation within a company and deliver functional enhancements and other changes to production more frequently and hence enhance mindshare and marketshare. It will also provide insights into how DevOps can enable the agile transformation and inform on how barriers to adoption can be overcome.
Susan Scott, Transformation Director, Barclays
Succeeding on the journey towards organisational agility can be a daunting prospect for many people as it rips them out of their comfort zone, and for everyone change is scary. So how do you create the impetus for changing the culture, the mind-set, the underlying beliefs when all around you are subconsciously trying to maintain the status quo? I’ll talk about some of the successes that have worked for me in a number of companies and I hope these will enable you with some takeaways you can experiment with in your context and an opportunity for reflection on other aspects of your journey.
Shesh Patel, Engineering Manager, NY Times
In the media industry, any day can become an important day. An election is a momentous event at The NY Times. Our subscribers rely heavily on real-time and most accurate updates. Since our projections were skyrocketing for election night for 2018 midterms and with our recent migration to a cloud-based infrastructure, we decided to do a simulation of election night traffic by executing stress test of our systems in a production environment.
In this presentation I will cover:
♦ A full step by step guide to planning ahead for handling high volumes traffic, from tool selection to stress script writing
♦ Best practices on stress testing and why is it important
♦ Lessons learned while doing stress testing in a cloud-based infrastructure
♦ Exercising incident management process through stress testing
Lynne Johnson, Senior Head Competence Unit (SHCU), Zuhlke Engineering Ltd and Susan Engel, Lead UX Consultant, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd
Building digital products is a complex process and requires effective requirements engineering and teamwork. Add to that Agile transition and getting your project up and running with the best possible chance for a successful outcome is critical. An effective Discovery Phase helps build a shared understanding of the problem space. During this talk we will share our experience of Agile Discovery. We will inspire attendees with the different activities and tools for a successful Discovery phase and lifting off a project with what we think is our secret weapon, Agile Chartering.
Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Ltd
The DevOps revolution has harnessed ubiquitous cheap CPU cycles to streamline the downstream development and delivery of digital technology. But producing more, faster, is only half the story.
Digital businesses need upstream activities that can keep pace - requirements and specifications as they used to get called. Whether it gets called discovery, BusDevOps, BizTech or something else, teams need to shrink the pre-code activities the way DevOps has shrunk post-code work.
In this presentation Allan Kelly will look at what this means for companies, teams and the people charged with deciding what to work on next.
