Across the world today software development in all shapes and sizes is growing exponentially. There is a software revolution and without a doubt it is an exciting world to be part of. The future is literally happening before our very eyes and never before have we as project managers needed to be on our toes to ensure that we keep pace with this technology race.
SDM: The Fundamentals of Software Delivery ManagementDevOps.com
Research and experience have proven that breaking down the barriers between Dev and Ops can yield tremendous efficiency, quality and velocity enhancements for software delivery teams.
But, in the spirit of continuous improvement… what’s next? What happens when you break down the barriers between DevOps and other parts of the business?
Join Jay Lyman (Principal Analyst, Cloud Native and DevOps, 451 Research) and Brian Dawson (DevOps Evangelist, CloudBees) as they review research on the current state of Software Delivery Management (SDM), and outline the key practices organizations should adopt to keep ALL teams on the same page about the software delivery function.
We’ll discuss:
How DevOps and SDM are critical for driving digital transformation.
The key stakeholders you need to focus on, beyond development and IT operations.
The role of security and governance, and how organizations can effectively measure and prove their DevOps success.
When you move an application to cloud, it is important to design it for the cloud, rather than a lift and shift. Twelve factors provide you architecture guidelines for designing a cloud "native" application.
Completing a transition to a microservices-based architecture makes every software engineer feel good. You can be proud of requests spanning multiple individual services, each with isolated single responsibility. Exactly as you dreamed it would be.
In the course of this transition however, you will have also created several new problems. Among these is a whole new level of complexity related to understanding the behavior of the application when troubleshooting a problem. If you have ever wrestled with pinpointing the exact root cause during a post-mortem, this talk is for you.
We will show you how capturing the runtime transparency of the distributed and dynamic architecture is possible. Better yet, we will cover both simple and advanced examples about how taking this route gives you an objective and evidence-based ability to zoom in to the problem.
After attending the talk you will understand how distributed tracing will help your team during incident response and post-mortems.
Register today to learn more:
What are distributed traces
Different ways to add distributed tracing to your production services
How the distributed traces expose the runtime architecture of your microservices in production.
Examples of how a distributed trace highlights a problem
Advanced examples of how distributed traces map root causes to real user impact
Continuous Lifecycle London 2018 Event KeynoteWeaveworks
Today it’s all about delivering velocity without compromising on quality, yet it’s becoming increasingly difficult for organisations to keep up with the challenges of current release management and traditional operations. The demand for developers to own the end-to-end delivery, including operational ownership, is increasing. A “you build it, you own it” development process requires tools that developers know and understand. So I’d like to introduce “GitOps”- an agile software lifecycle for modern applications.
In this session, I will discuss these industry challenges, including current CICD trends and how they’re converging with operations and monitoring. I’ll also illustrate the GitOps model, identify best practices and tools to use, and explain how you can benefit from adopting this methodology inherited from best practices going back 10-15 years.
Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline for Deploying Containers Using the AWS Developer Tool...Amazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to set-up a CI/CD pipeline with AWS Fargate or Amazon ECS
- Understand how CodePipeline can help your team release high quality code, faster
- See a working sample of a CI/CD pipeline with AWS Fargate and AWS CodePipeline
SDM: The Fundamentals of Software Delivery ManagementDevOps.com
Research and experience have proven that breaking down the barriers between Dev and Ops can yield tremendous efficiency, quality and velocity enhancements for software delivery teams.
But, in the spirit of continuous improvement… what’s next? What happens when you break down the barriers between DevOps and other parts of the business?
Join Jay Lyman (Principal Analyst, Cloud Native and DevOps, 451 Research) and Brian Dawson (DevOps Evangelist, CloudBees) as they review research on the current state of Software Delivery Management (SDM), and outline the key practices organizations should adopt to keep ALL teams on the same page about the software delivery function.
We’ll discuss:
How DevOps and SDM are critical for driving digital transformation.
The key stakeholders you need to focus on, beyond development and IT operations.
The role of security and governance, and how organizations can effectively measure and prove their DevOps success.
When you move an application to cloud, it is important to design it for the cloud, rather than a lift and shift. Twelve factors provide you architecture guidelines for designing a cloud "native" application.
Completing a transition to a microservices-based architecture makes every software engineer feel good. You can be proud of requests spanning multiple individual services, each with isolated single responsibility. Exactly as you dreamed it would be.
In the course of this transition however, you will have also created several new problems. Among these is a whole new level of complexity related to understanding the behavior of the application when troubleshooting a problem. If you have ever wrestled with pinpointing the exact root cause during a post-mortem, this talk is for you.
We will show you how capturing the runtime transparency of the distributed and dynamic architecture is possible. Better yet, we will cover both simple and advanced examples about how taking this route gives you an objective and evidence-based ability to zoom in to the problem.
After attending the talk you will understand how distributed tracing will help your team during incident response and post-mortems.
Register today to learn more:
What are distributed traces
Different ways to add distributed tracing to your production services
How the distributed traces expose the runtime architecture of your microservices in production.
Examples of how a distributed trace highlights a problem
Advanced examples of how distributed traces map root causes to real user impact
Continuous Lifecycle London 2018 Event KeynoteWeaveworks
Today it’s all about delivering velocity without compromising on quality, yet it’s becoming increasingly difficult for organisations to keep up with the challenges of current release management and traditional operations. The demand for developers to own the end-to-end delivery, including operational ownership, is increasing. A “you build it, you own it” development process requires tools that developers know and understand. So I’d like to introduce “GitOps”- an agile software lifecycle for modern applications.
In this session, I will discuss these industry challenges, including current CICD trends and how they’re converging with operations and monitoring. I’ll also illustrate the GitOps model, identify best practices and tools to use, and explain how you can benefit from adopting this methodology inherited from best practices going back 10-15 years.
Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline for Deploying Containers Using the AWS Developer Tool...Amazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to set-up a CI/CD pipeline with AWS Fargate or Amazon ECS
- Understand how CodePipeline can help your team release high quality code, faster
- See a working sample of a CI/CD pipeline with AWS Fargate and AWS CodePipeline
Building Cloud-Native App Series - Part 1 of 11
Microservices Architecture Series
Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile (Kanban, Scrum),
User Stories, Domain-Driven Design
Smooth your path to successful IT budgeting with Absoft's Technical Roadmap Service. http://www.absoft.co.uk/content/roadmap-for-successful-it-budgeting
Dev, Ops, DevOps, Platform Teams – and everybody has it’s own interpretation. But what is meant by platform engineering, actually? What’s the difference to ops? And isn’t that contradictionary to DevOps? In this talk, Philipp shows Scout24’s journey from separate dev and ops departments to platform teams and the steps in-between. You’ll see how the organisation changed and why this was necessary. On some real-world examples he explains how the platform teams now uses AWS and Docker to enable the feature teams to become faster and more productive.
Join us for an hour-long introductory-level API design basics learning session where we talk about what makes a good API. This session is oriented towards designers and developers and takes a look into industry best practices and standards, how to design APIs in Postman, and how we can prepare our workspace for the Postman Public API Network. In this Postman learning session, we specifically dive into the design experiences for OpenAPI.
Service-oriented architectures were not built to handle the demands of a modern, digital organization. Hear how one large enterprise modernized its distributed SOA by deploying Apigee Edge Public Cloud. The existing infrastructure manages SOAP, XML-based services, and some REST APIs built on an IBM integration stack (including WebSphere and DataPower).
10,000 microservices are generated each month using JHipster!
During this in-depth session by the two JHipster lead developers, we’ll detail:
How to develop and deploy microservices easily
Scalability and failover of microservices
The JHipster Registry for scaling, configuring and monitoring microservices
Common architecture patterns and pitfalls
Threat protection and application access controls are key security mechanisms that protect APIs when exposed to internal or external users and developers.
In this technical deep-dive webcast, Apigee's security team, led by Subra Kumaraswamy, will discuss API threats and the protection mechanisms that every API and app developer must implement for safe and secure API management.
This webcast will cover:
- the API threat model
- how to design and implement appropriate guardrails for API security using build-in policies and configuration
- a demo of Apigee Edge threat protection features, including TLS encryption, XML/JSON/SQL injection attacks, and rate limiting
Whether you're an IT security architect or an API or app developer, this webcast will help you understand secure API management.
Download Podcast: http://bit.ly/1biiJQS
Watch Video: http://youtu.be/ffs35w1RYRI
DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures (including Nexus and o...Sonatype
There are numerous examples of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures available, and each of them vary in levels of detail, tools highlighted, and processes followed. Yet, there is a constant theme among the tool sets: Jenkins, Maven, Sonatype Nexus, Subversion, Git, Docker, Puppet/Chef, Rundeck, ServiceNow, and Sonar seem to show up time and again.
INTERFACE by apidays 2023 - The Swiss Cheese Model of Layered API Security, L...apidays
INTERFACE by apidays 2023
APIs for a “Smart” economy. Embedding AI to deliver Smart APIs and turn into an exponential organization
June 28 & 29, 2023
The Swiss Cheese Model of Layered API Security
Leon Andrews, Principal, APIs and Product Engineering at Terem
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https://apilandscape.apiscene.io/
DevOps at Scale: How Datadog is using AWS and PagerDuty to Keep Pace with Gr...Amazon Web Services
Meeting the demands of everchanging IT management and security requirements means evolving both how you respond to and resolve incidents. It’s critical for organizations to adopt a scalable DevOps solution that integrates with their current monitoring systems to enable collaboration across development and operations teams, reducing the mean time to resolution. PagerDuty works with AWS services like Amazon CloudWatch, to provide rapid incident response with rich, contextual details that allow you to analyze trends and monitor the performance of your applications and AWS environment.
The introduction of a project management framework will provide a structured and managed approach for projects within your company.
With the right framework in place it will allow projects of all sizes and priority to be planned effectively. This ensures that at all times the cost of the project is managed while delivering quality and the right level of performance and control across project management.
Building Cloud-Native App Series - Part 1 of 11
Microservices Architecture Series
Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile (Kanban, Scrum),
User Stories, Domain-Driven Design
Smooth your path to successful IT budgeting with Absoft's Technical Roadmap Service. http://www.absoft.co.uk/content/roadmap-for-successful-it-budgeting
Dev, Ops, DevOps, Platform Teams – and everybody has it’s own interpretation. But what is meant by platform engineering, actually? What’s the difference to ops? And isn’t that contradictionary to DevOps? In this talk, Philipp shows Scout24’s journey from separate dev and ops departments to platform teams and the steps in-between. You’ll see how the organisation changed and why this was necessary. On some real-world examples he explains how the platform teams now uses AWS and Docker to enable the feature teams to become faster and more productive.
Join us for an hour-long introductory-level API design basics learning session where we talk about what makes a good API. This session is oriented towards designers and developers and takes a look into industry best practices and standards, how to design APIs in Postman, and how we can prepare our workspace for the Postman Public API Network. In this Postman learning session, we specifically dive into the design experiences for OpenAPI.
Service-oriented architectures were not built to handle the demands of a modern, digital organization. Hear how one large enterprise modernized its distributed SOA by deploying Apigee Edge Public Cloud. The existing infrastructure manages SOAP, XML-based services, and some REST APIs built on an IBM integration stack (including WebSphere and DataPower).
10,000 microservices are generated each month using JHipster!
During this in-depth session by the two JHipster lead developers, we’ll detail:
How to develop and deploy microservices easily
Scalability and failover of microservices
The JHipster Registry for scaling, configuring and monitoring microservices
Common architecture patterns and pitfalls
Threat protection and application access controls are key security mechanisms that protect APIs when exposed to internal or external users and developers.
In this technical deep-dive webcast, Apigee's security team, led by Subra Kumaraswamy, will discuss API threats and the protection mechanisms that every API and app developer must implement for safe and secure API management.
This webcast will cover:
- the API threat model
- how to design and implement appropriate guardrails for API security using build-in policies and configuration
- a demo of Apigee Edge threat protection features, including TLS encryption, XML/JSON/SQL injection attacks, and rate limiting
Whether you're an IT security architect or an API or app developer, this webcast will help you understand secure API management.
Download Podcast: http://bit.ly/1biiJQS
Watch Video: http://youtu.be/ffs35w1RYRI
DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures (including Nexus and o...Sonatype
There are numerous examples of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures available, and each of them vary in levels of detail, tools highlighted, and processes followed. Yet, there is a constant theme among the tool sets: Jenkins, Maven, Sonatype Nexus, Subversion, Git, Docker, Puppet/Chef, Rundeck, ServiceNow, and Sonar seem to show up time and again.
INTERFACE by apidays 2023 - The Swiss Cheese Model of Layered API Security, L...apidays
INTERFACE by apidays 2023
APIs for a “Smart” economy. Embedding AI to deliver Smart APIs and turn into an exponential organization
June 28 & 29, 2023
The Swiss Cheese Model of Layered API Security
Leon Andrews, Principal, APIs and Product Engineering at Terem
------
Check out our conferences at https://www.apidays.global/
Do you want to sponsor or talk at one of our conferences?
https://apidays.typeform.com/to/ILJeAaV8
Learn more on APIscene, the global media made by the community for the community:
https://www.apiscene.io
Explore the API ecosystem with the API Landscape:
https://apilandscape.apiscene.io/
DevOps at Scale: How Datadog is using AWS and PagerDuty to Keep Pace with Gr...Amazon Web Services
Meeting the demands of everchanging IT management and security requirements means evolving both how you respond to and resolve incidents. It’s critical for organizations to adopt a scalable DevOps solution that integrates with their current monitoring systems to enable collaboration across development and operations teams, reducing the mean time to resolution. PagerDuty works with AWS services like Amazon CloudWatch, to provide rapid incident response with rich, contextual details that allow you to analyze trends and monitor the performance of your applications and AWS environment.
The introduction of a project management framework will provide a structured and managed approach for projects within your company.
With the right framework in place it will allow projects of all sizes and priority to be planned effectively. This ensures that at all times the cost of the project is managed while delivering quality and the right level of performance and control across project management.
Project Management Framework automation for Project and Portfolio Management ...PMILebanonChapter
Lecture Outline
• Project Management Framework (PMF) and its applications
• Existing project and portfolio management tools
• Project Management Framework Automation: How to?
• The benefits and the challenges of PMF process automation
Lecture Objectives
To introduce the challenges of applying project management standards without any automation tool that can help facilitate the whole process. Applying Project Management standards along with using the right project management tools and Process Automation is key to success in the project management world. Without combining both, PM standards knowledge and Framework automation, applying project management processes by project and portfolio managers in any organization will be a big challenge.
Lecturer’s Biography
Dr. Mona ZOUGHAIB is the VP/Marketing Director of PMI Lebanon Chapter. Mona is currently the head of project management office and the advisor to the CIO at Middle East Airlines since more than two years. Before joining the aviation industry, Mona was a banker for more than 18 years from Arab Bank as section head / IT development unit to Fransabank as head of IT project management and later joined Byblos Bank as senior program manager.
Dr. Zoughaib has a Computer Science degree from LAU (1993), MBA from LAU (2005) and PhD in MIS from Paris Descartes – Paris V (2009), and she is PMP certified.
In addition to her long years of professional experience, Mona is a senior lecturer at AUB and an Associate Professor at the Lebanese university, HAIGAZIAN University and Rafic Hariri University
ESOFT Metro Campus - Diploma in Software Engineering - (Module VII) Introduction to Project Management
(Template - Virtusa Corporate)
Contents:
What is a Project?
History of the Project Management
Attributes of a Project
What is Project Management?
Why Project Management Important?
The Triple Constraints of a Project
Project Stakeholders
Performing Organizational Structures
Project Management Life Cycle
Project Management Processes
Nine Knowledge Areas
Integration Management
Scope Management
Time Management
Cost Management
Quality Management
Human Resource Management
Communication Management
Risk Management
Procurement Management
Online PMP Training Material for PMP Exam - Integration Management Knowledge ...GlobalSkillup
Integration Management Knowledge Area in Project management defined by PMBOK 5th Edition by Project Management Institute (PMI). Provided by GlobalSkillup.com towards PMP Certification Exam.
Chapter 06 of ICT Project Management based on IOE Engineering syllabus. This chapter provides knowledge on project management processes, overlaps of process groups in a phase and mapping of project management.Provided by Project Management Sir of KU.
The reality is that a paradigm shift is needed to enable the Agile PMO to deliver the correct support and provide an acceptable level of guidance for project managers in a collaborative and co-operative approach.
This will result in the ability to work with the project and business teams to fast track projects through to delivery while ensuring that the components of the triple constraints evolves into a managed agile enterprise project and programme environment.
There are many challenges that are faced by the business world today on how to manage your business goals and strategies in a market that is both dynamic and moves very quickly. Within both the technology and business sectors change is constant and the question that one asks is how do you manage this effectively. This presentation shows how a digital project may be managed
CRMready Webinar Series - Part 3 - How to Make Your Nonprofit’s CRM Implement...TheConnectedCause
In the CRMready Webinar Series, The Connected Cause takes a look at what CRM is, the project roles needed for a successful CRM implementation, and project management. In part 3 Heller Consulting talks about managing expectations with change management, evaluating risks with a CRM implementation and what roles are needed to ensure the project is a success for your nonprofit organization.
Help my project is in trouble. I have put this together to give project managers a guideline on how to move your project back into a successful journey
Similar to A guide for the rolling out of a software delivery project (20)
There is a tsunami of web development happening daily. This could range from large enterprise web platforms to a small start-up web page. And what an opportunity for your business to get involved with an exciting and fast changing environment. More and more companies will focus on their web presence and who better to bring it to life than a modern and responsive website with new technology and a faster way to reach a huge audience out in the world wide web
Grab these opportunities they are only going to get better and better and the true joy of this is that these are short to market projects so you will definitely see your hard work produce results. This is a great place to be
With these odds vying against project managers it is becoming more and more necessary that rather than cancel a project to look at a way that the project can be turned around and show some form of economic viability for the project and the company as a whole.
With this change in paradigm it will require some quick thinking both within the process of how the project is being managed and getting the buy in from both your project team and the stakeholders
At this time of the year it becomes important to understand how your projects are doing. Doing a health check will give you a great and instant view on what is going right and what needs to be improved and more importantly is the project still a viable option and will bring in the benefits
Sometimes we take life too seriously I know I am guilty of this so I thought I would put together a presentation to make you realise that life is not as serious as we think sometimes
In a world that faces marketing and technical challenges it is very important that project management and business work together to deliver the correct solution at the correct time.
The pace of doing business is increasing rapidly with the surge of digital technology touching every aspect of the commercial world
As project management becomes more specialised and business driven using the right project manager at the right time will deliver strategic solutions effectively meeting quality, business and revenue targets.
I have used this presentation to help small companies get an understanding how to setup a strategy that is user friendly and can apply to their project model
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
2. Across the world today software development in all shapes and sizes is growing
exponentially. There is a software revolution and without a doubt it is an exciting
world to be part of. The future is literally happening before our very eyes and never
before have we as project managers needed to be on our toes to ensure that we
keep pace with this technology race.
Get Fast: A Survival Strategy For Software Development
Editor at Large, Enterprise MobilityThomas Claburn
http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-applications/get-fast-a-
survival-strategy-for-software-development/d/d-id/1320195
3. This presentation will give you the basic and fundamental steps to plan,
develop and rollout a software project.
The Project Framework
The Business Case
Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC)
4. A project Management Framework consists
of three parts a project lifecycle, a project
control cycle and tool and templates to
facilitate the execution of the project. It is
important to remember that the project
framework supports the critical path.
5. The Project Framework is setup to manage the project management phases that
will plan, control and execute the product to be delivered and the software
delivery that forms the critical path and triple constraints
Project Management Software Delivery Life Cycle
Not on Critical Path
Supports and controls the software
delivery cycle
Always on the Critical Path
Will have a baselined project plan
to control the project
This will result in
• Delivering the product in line with current strategic objectives
• The roles and responsibilities for the business, project and technical teams
• A process that is adaptable in line with current requirements
• A process that is not complex and easy to use
• Control of the documentation and administration used during the course of each
project.
6. A recommended approach
The Project
Framework Team
The Roles The Methodology
The PMO The Risk Profile
The Success
Factors
The Project
Roadmap
The Project
Phases
The Project
Folders
7. PMOManagement
Business
Technical
Operations
Production/On-Line
The Project Framework Team
• Business Sponsor
• Product Manager
• Business Analyst
• Stakeholders
• PMO Mngr
• Project Mngr
• Project Admin
• Suppliers
• Technical Team
• UX Team
• Testing Team
• Quality Team
• Financial Mngr
• Quality Mngr
• Process Mngr
• Production Mngr
• On-Line Mngr
• Support team
Each company will have a different approach for the project framework but
the framework should cover the key business units involved in project
delivery
8. Team Role
Business At this stage business will provide an advisory role outlying how the project will help the
business to develop their vision and mission and what they hope to achieve with the
product to be developed
Technical The technical team whether internal or external must identify the key requirements to
roll out their technical strategy and assist the PMO to ensure that the correct processes,
methodologies and environments are in place for product development
Operations Operations will provide the full support to ensure that contracts, financials and
operational processes are in place and aligned to how all projects need to be rolled out
and delivered
Production/On-Line Production/On-line will provide the essential guidelines on what is required once the
product goes live and how the product will be integrated into the live system
The Roles
The project framework will outline the roles where the process,
governance and the overall management for the delivery of the software
product is understood and agreed by the key management divisions
9. Establishing the project methodology will provide the correct
process for managing and delivering a project successfully. The two
main bodies of project management practices that are used today
are PMBOK and Prince2. Each methodology has its own set of
principles providing the advantage of the ability to combine the best
of both worlds.
The Methodology
• Provides all round guidance and knowledge on
project management
• The knowledge areas provide a systematic
approach to managing a project
• Provides guidance and a step by step process to
managing a project
• Provides structured documentation through the
project life cycle
• Ties in to the PMI approach for managing
projects
• Is accepted across the world as an industry
standard
• Provides a well-rounded administrative
approach to project management
• Focusses on the product and business case
• Detailed guidelines for change control,
configuration management and quality
• Can be tailored and applied to any project
• Offers a framework for facilitating individual
projects
• Is widely used by banks throughout the
world as the preferred methodology for
project management
10. The PMO
PMO Governance
Best Practice
Change
Management
Supplier
Management
Resource
Management
Process
Development
Projects
Execution
Setting up a formal PMO allows for a structured
approach to the overall project management
and can be used effectively whether it is a small
or large company.
• Dashboard status reports
• Management of resources and skills
required
• Control and track of all decisions made
• Tracking and control of financial targets
• Change management
• Process development
• Strategic alignment to company objectives
• Management of governance within the
Project Life Cycle
11. These factors should be based on the project to be deployed and should
be amended accordingly
The Risk Profile
Time to
Market
Skills
Technology
Infrastructure
Suppliers
Team
Size
Stakeholders
One of the advantages of identifying the risk profile
will allow you to clearly specify if the project is a small,
medium or large project. This will provide a clear way
forward on how to setup the project framework and
what governance, skills are required to deliver
successful projects. .
Using lessons learnt here from
previous projects provides
valuable insights into the risk
profile
12. Risk Skills
Corporate
Culture
ComplexityPriority Budget
Size InfrastructureSchedule
When beginning the process of setting up the
project framework it is important to note the key
success factors that are required as part of your
overall methodology and what will drive the
project to success and a return on investment
Establishing the success factors will help you to ensure that the project is
setup to achieve these factors throughout the project life cycle
The Success Factors
13. The Project Roadmap
• Reflects the deliverables and priorities
• Projects can be adjusted on the roadmap in line with business
changes and requirements
• Reflects status milestones at a glance
• Shows projects at risk
• Shows dependencies between projects
The project roadmap is a perfect application to allow for the
rollout and priority of all projects under the radar. It will
easily reflect the business requirements of when to launch
the products and the feasibility to do so in line with the
current technology and infrastructure that is available to the
company at any given time.
14. The Project Phases
Initiation Planning Execution and Control Close Out
• Setup the Project
• Setup the Team
• Finalise the Charter
• Baseline the business
case
• Finalise the project
approach
• Prepare the Kick Off
Presentation
• Complete the Project
Kick off check list
• Hold kick off meeting
• Submit notification to
announce project in now
live
• Finalise Project Initiation
Document
• Plan Communication
Strategy
• Plan Quality Strategy
• Plan Procurement
Strategy
• Plan Configuration
Strategy
• Finalise Project Schedule
• Finalise Project
Financials
• Define issue and risk
protocols
• Define governance
• Setup Project Folders
• Finalise Resource Plan
• Manage business case
• Manage work packages
• Track issues and risks
• Hold status meetings
• Track financials against
approved project budget
• Track supplier
performance
• Manage project plan and
resource time sheets
• Update agreed
dashboards and PMO
reports
• Hold regular stakeholder
meetings to agree a go
or no go throughout the
project
• Close out all
administration activities
• Ensure that all
documentation has been
moved to a central
location
• Conduct final contract
reviews
• Conduct lessons learnt
• Release resources
• Conduct project audit and
release findings
• Finalise all invoices and
payments
• Close financials on project
This is a generic process and should be adapted to your own individual
project
15. ProjectFolders
Project Name
Initiation
Planning
Control
Close out
Programme
Management
Status Reports
Time Sheets
Financials
Reports
It is a good idea to setup a standardized folder
structure for project documents which follows the
agreed methodology that you have implemented.
This would be located on your shared document
server and this must be carefully planned and
controlled with the project team.
There are many ways to do this however SharePoint
seems to be the preferred solution.
The Project Folders
16. A business case captures the reasoning for
initiating a project or task. It is often
presented in a well-structured written
document, but may also sometimes come in
the form of a short verbal argument or
presentation. The logic of the business case
is that, whenever resources such as money or
effort are consumed, they should be in
support of a specific business need.
17. A well-constructed business case will provide the correct way forward on how
the service or product must be designed, planned, developed and finally
launched.
At a high level the business case will outline the benefits, costs and feasibility of
the product to be launched. This document must be very clear and definitely
show the company how their return on this investment will become a reality
once their product is launched
Going forward the approved business case becomes the barometer throughout
the project guiding the way towards meeting the agreed strategy, goals and
objectives
What Why How
Desired Business Results
18. A recommended approach
The Business
Team
The Roles
The
Methodology
The Business
Canvas
The Schedule
The
Document
19. During the compilation of the business case the project manager and
operations manager provides an advisory role. They may be required to
approve the business case.
The Business Team
BusinessCase
Business Owner
Business Analyst
Project Manager
Operations Manager
20. Team Role
Business Owner The New Business Manager is responsible to build the client relationship by acting as
the interface between the client and the Forgood project team. The New Business
Manager is responsible to ensure that the client’s requirements are identified and
provide a solution and cost on how Forgood can meet those requirements
Business Analyst The Business Analyst identifies business needs and determines solutions to business
problems. Solutions often include a systems development component, but may also
consist of process improvement, organizational change or strategic planning and policy
development.
Project Manager The Project Manager provides an integrated framework for project organisation;
planning and control which is designed to ensure the timely and cost-effective
production of all the end-products maintain acceptable standards of quality achieve for
the enterprise the benefit for which the investment in the project has been made.
Operations Manager The operations manager will provide an end to end view of the business which can
incorporate the understanding of strategic objectives, development of an operational
strategy, design of the operations services and process, planning, controlling and
improving the performance of the operation. These factors will help establish the
project framework across operational activity
The Roles
The role will define what the expectations are during the business case
phase
21. Define
Strategy
Ensure
financial
support
Ensure
management
commitment
Deliver
business case
The Methodology
A business case captures the reasoning for initiating a project or task.
It is often presented in a well-structured written document, but may
also sometimes come in the form of a short verbal argument or
presentation. The logic of the business case is that, whenever resources
such as money or effort are consumed, they should be in support of a
specific business need.
22. Setting up a business canvas with your team will give you an edge in identifying the
key points that need to be incorporated into your business case.
The agreed points should be included into the business case table of contents.
The Business Canvas
23. Task Name
Define the Opportunity
Evaluate Business Approach
Evaluate Potential Risks and Rewards
Review and modify the strategic plan
Define the Market
Identify Needed Materials and Supplies
Evaluate Potential Risks and Rewards
Review and modify the business
opportunity
Confirm decision to proceed
The Schedule
Setup the schedule and timeframe to complete all of the tasks for the business case.
This should also include the people assigned to do the actual activities. Ensure that
the assigned time is as agreed with the business owners to complete the business
cases to inform the stakeholders whether the project will proceed to a Go status.
The schedule for the business case must be setup looking at the full scope, cost
and timeframe and a project plan should be setup to manage the business case
from the concept until the final sign off process has been completed
24. Prepare the approval meeting and presentation
Send out the final business case for review
Ensure that the final updates have been incorporated into the business
case and note who made the changes
Any new decisions note them in a decision log and
Setup the final walkthrough and advise of the date, venue and agenda
Ensure that all equipment needed for the meeting is in working order
Conduct the approval meeting and ensure that minutes are recorded
Record the final updates
At the end of the meeting submit the business case for approval
If the project is given a No-Go at this stage store all of the documentation
and note the decision on the product road map
If it is a Go begin the process of setting up the full project
The Document
A business case document is a
formal, written argument
intended to convince a decision
maker to approve some kind of
action. A well-crafted business
case explores all feasible
approaches to a given problem
and enables business owners to
select the option that best serves
the organization outlines the
reasons why a business should
spend money. It helps the
management team to evaluate
and prioritise investment
decisions.
25. SDLC stands for Software Development Life Cycle.
A Software Development Life Cycle is essentially a
series of steps, or phases, that provide a model for
the development and lifecycle management of an
application or piece of software. The methodology
within the SDLC process can vary across
industries and organizations, but standards such
as ISO/IEC 12207 represent processes that
establish a lifecycle for software, and provide a
mode for the development, acquisition, and
configuration of software systems.
26. The software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) shifts into gear once
the business has given the project a Go Status and the
project team begins to focus on delivering the project in
line with the approved business and quality requirements.
The agreed approach for the SDLC whether it is a Waterfall
or Agile approach will now become an important factor to
ensure that the project is scoped, scheduled and budgeted
for correctly
27. A recommended approach
The SDLC
Team
The Roles
The
Methodology
The Project
Plan
The SDLC
Phases
Analysis
Design Development Testing
Deploy
28. The SDLC Team
SDLCProjectManager
Technical Team
Design Team
Development Team
Testing Team
Production
• Projects of different sizes have different needs for how the people are
organized.
• In a small project, little organization structure is needed.
• There might be a primary sponsor, project manager and a project team.
• However, for large projects, there are more and more people involved, and it is
important that people understand what they are expected to do, and what role
people are expected to fill.
29. The Roles
Team Role
Technical Team The technical team will be solely responsible for defining the functional and technical
solution to be implemented and provide the necessary documentation to ensure that
the technical solution is approved and will provide the desired results.
Design Team The design team can also be referred to as the UX team and is primarily responsible for
the look and feel of the website as well as how the content will be displayed. They will
be responsible for producing UX wireframes
Development Team The development team will work with the technical and design team to code and do
integration testing ensuring that the business requirements, technical requirements and
design requirements are integrated and provide a quality solution
Testing Team The testing team will do end to end testing to ensure that the agreed test cases are
finalised and signed off and will only deliver the correct quality product to be moved
into the live environment
On-Line On line (always referred to as web management) will take over the software delivery
once testing has been concluded and it responsible for the management of the live
product and will be the primary point of communication to the business once the
product is in live status
30. Within your project framework you need to establish the correct delivery approach for your
software projects. However this could also include setting up a SDLC methodology that will
combine the elements of both Waterfall and Agile to provide an optimal result
The Methodology
Delivering
http://www.computerworlduk.com/project-management/agile-waterfall-is-
hybrid-approach-best-for-enterprise-app-development-3572875/
Agile and waterfall – is a hybrid approach best for enterprise app
development
31. Task Name Duration
Basic SDLC Project Plan 141 days
Requirements Analysis 40 days
Design 11 days
Test plan 10 days
Development 87.5 days
QA 11 days
UAT 11 days
Go-live 4 days
The Project Plan
Cost Scope Time Quality
Once all of the pieces for the project plan are in place
and approved you will need to baseline your project
plan and setup the critical path for delivery. It is
important to note that the project baselines will be
modified throughout the project as slippage or
approved changes are introduced
Baseline
The main benefits of having a project
baseline are:
• Ability to assess performance.
• Earned Value calculation.
• Improved future estimating
accuracy.
• Manage quality
32. In conjunction with the Project Management
Methodology, a formal end to end SDLC process model
must be formalized to ensure that there is an end to
end process for the development, testing and
implementation of a product. This will assist in
meeting the quality deliverables of the product as
defined in the relevant technical and analysis
documentation and can be applied to any lifecycle :
Waterfall or Agile
The SDLC Phases
Analysis
Design
DevelopmentTesting
Release
That no matter what methodology you do choose the key SDLC steps will still be
performed in order to deliver a quality product
38. A final
word
Software delivery is where you as the project manager will really lead the
way ensuring that every step and process is followed and managed and
ultimately delivering a quality product into the marketplace.
Without a doubt there are many ways to plan and deliver a software
project but my advice is ensure that the basics are in place, well defined
and then build the approach on top of these well understood and tested
principles.
Doing this will provide you with a sure fire way to deliver and meeting both
the stakeholder’s and business requirements and your project’s goals and
objectives.
Remember to have fun along the way and enjoy your project.
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Cliona O’Hanrahan
MPM; Prince2 ; PMI SME