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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Adam Bowen, Sr. Director and Global Practice Lead, DevOps and Cloud, Delphix
The CI/CD pipeline has been democratised. Engineers today have the ability to provision environments and build and deploy their code to them as and when needed, via self-service. In this session, Adam Bowen will make the case to treat data at par with code and environments and give developers and testers the ability to provision test data as and when needed, in a secure and compliant manner.
Mark Lines, Vice President Disciplined Agile, Project Management Institute (PMI)
A fundamental philosophy from the early days of Agile, and particularly of XP, is that teams should own their process. Today we would say that they should be allowed, and better yet, enabled, to choose their own way of working (WoW).
This was a powerful vision, but it was quickly abandoned to make way for the Agile certification gold rush. Why do the hard work of learning your craft, of improving your WoW via experimentation and learning, when you can instead become a certified master of an agile method in two days or a program consultant of a scaling framework in four? It sounds great, and certainly is great for anyone collecting the money, but 18 years after the signing of the Agile Manifesto as an industry we’re nowhere near reaching Agile’s promise. Nowhere near it.
We had it right in the very beginning, and the lean community had it right all along – teams need to own their process, they must be enabled to choose their WoW. To do this we need to stop looking for easy answers, we must reject the simplistic solutions that the agile industrial complex wants to sell us, and most importantly recognize that we need #NoFrameworks.
Sean Bosklopper, Senior Solutions Architect, Micro Focus
Organisations need to be built from the ground up to change focus from shareholder value to customer value. the ability to scale delivery processes beyond the team level and meet the needs of the enterprise.
In today’s complex world a key enabler is to make sense of the myriad of different systems todays organisations have. Open source, 3rd Party, multiple delivery and development methodologies, not to mention all those test systems – trying to make sense and analyse all this information can be nigh on impossible.
Learn how to combine together all the information points to know what is working, what should be enhanced and where to be hold and stop. We’ll also talk about how to eliminate the daily waste of manually trudging through many different systems, just to do what really should be the most simplest of tasks.
Sean Wilkinson, Principal Consultant, Infuse
Join Infuse Principal Consultant Sean Wilkinson as he takes you through considerations and common issues that arise from planning and running a performance engineering engagement.
Soledad Pinter, Managing Director, Heart of Agile Europe
Nowadays, organizations are adapting their way of working to deal with the complexity of a world that is constantly shifting.
Using the Heart of Agile as a compass, you will learn about new ways to work on your team values and help you to collaborate, deliver, reflect and improve.
You leave the room with a concrete call to action to support you embracing the vulnerability and courage needed to make one small improvement today.
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.
What approaches are possible? What tools can you use? How does it work together with classical test automation? What road blocks keep you from introducing it to your company? An invitation for discussions…
TABLE TWO: Broken Windows Theory & DevOps AdoptionThis compelling discussion references the criminological theory of "Broken Windows" and ties it to DevOps adoption! Moderated by a recognised DevOps thought leader, join us for this Round Table discussion whether you're just getting started with DevOps or looking to scale it within your organisation. I promise you will have loads of fun and learning!
TABLE THREE: OKRs at enterprise scaleHistorically, testing teams have found demonstrating their value to stakeholders challenging. There are many reasons for this including testing being seen as a cost, testers not understanding stakeholder needs, and not being able to articulate the benefit they bring to those stakeholders. Credibility became a problem, with stakeholders not always providing the resources testers needed in order to perform well.
With the introduction of cross functional teams, collectively accountability for delivering working software, with testing activity distributed across many roles, are there new challenges that career testers face in being credible, and valued in their organisations? What are these new challenges, what should we do about them, do we even care?
Please, bring along your experiences and perspectives, and discuss!
TABLE FIVE: Lean Coffee: Scaling Agile and DevOps.
♦ What are the major barriers to harnessing data? Organisational, technical, legacy IT infrastructure, data silos, data security, or maybe a skills shortage.
♦ What are the data bottlenecks?
♦ Data delivery bottlenecks. Data sits in multiple locations, on premise, in private / public cloud or hybrid cloud environments, often in a mix of relational or no SQL databases.
♦ Governance bottlenecks. Compliance and privacy concerns and audit requirements restrict or slow down the delivery of data from production to development environments.
♦ Release bottlenecks. Development teams can wait days or week for production data to become available, causing a release bottleneck.
♦ In your experience, what factors contribute the most to bottlenecks?
♦ What are you doing to ensure that your organisation maximises the value of its data?
Dave Snowden, CTO, Cognitive Edge
Eddie Obeng, CEO, Pentacle The Virtual Business School
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.
Jorge L Castro Toribio, Program Manager & Agile Coach, Everis, Peru
Lets build a whole mindset team focus on quality and have fun with devops and agile through gamification
Yossi Rosenberg, Automation Tech Lead, Gett, Israel
In this talk, I’ll answer one of the hottest subjects in the automation development world - Our journey when developing our new automation architecture dos and don’ts.
We will cover 3 main use cases from real life and we’ll emphasise what are considered to be the good and bad practices when talking about automation infrastructures development
Vivek Jayaraman, Customer Success Officer, Leanpitch Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Being Agile is not about adopting a specific agile process blindly but understanding the business dynamics and organization constraints and putting together a process for continuous learning and improvement. It’s about achieving ROI by reducing the cost of delay by reducing the release cycles and reducing the production costs by improving the development process.
PRIME is an empirical approach to help the organization in assessing the current state, designing a solution, educating them on the solution and coaching them to sustain the change and continuously learn and improve.
