Life Has Not Been That Rosy With Agile : Rahul SudameoGuild .
In my experience, Agile adoption started in some of the organizations with lot of hype and inflated expectations. And in such cases, if Agile transformation is not handled properly, it can result in multiple challenges rather than providing the expected benefits.
This practical experience sharing session would cover some such problems I faced while applying Agile in different environments. The audience practicing Agile can relate some of these challenges with their own environment as well. The attendees who are on their path to Agile transformation can learn from the lessons and mistakes shared by the speaker.
The session would cover challenges observed due to nature of the project, customer-vendor engagement model, application of processes, attitude of people rolling out agile, unrealistic expectations, conflict in roles and responsibilities. It would also highlight challenges introduced to some of the roles (like Project/QA Manager/Manual Tester etc.) in Agile environment and impact on billing / project contracts / SOW etc.
Validating Delivered Business Value – Going Beyond “Actual Business Value”Yuval Yeret
Actual is a relative term when it comes to business value delivered by a SAFe PI Objective. In this talk we will explore techniques for validating the actual value delivered by SAFe Teams and ARTs based on real-world outcomes that can be evaluated post-release. RTEs, Product Management and Lean/Agile Leaders will be able to assess their current ability to validate value and learn specific practices they could add to their artifacts and events. Finally, we will take a deeper look at optionality and hypothesis-driven thinking in SAFe and challenge the comfort zone on how to properly use some of SAFe’s essential elements in this context.
Learning Objectives:
Assess their competency level of their ART/Program when it comes to ability to validate value
Evolve their Inspect and Adapt events to enable validation value based on real outcomes
Extend their Program and Portfolio Kanbans to help manage the flow of learning and validation.
How to measure the outcome of agile transformationRahul Sudame
This presentation covers details on how we can measure that Agile Transformation is providing the intended outcome or not. I presents a research & survey which tries to understand how different people measure value of Agile Transformation
Agile Center of Excellence : Presented by Rahul Sudame oGuild .
When any organization plans to move to Agile methodology, it needs to plan multiple initiatives for successful transition. One of the important initiative would be building an Agile Center of Excellence, a team which would support for consistency of Agile implementation across the organization. The Agile CoE we built worked on multiple aspects such as:
Defining organization-wide Agile methodology, tailoring it as per organization environment if required.
Build knowledge of Agile across the organization.
Supporting the team members with any ongoing queries.
Support in building required Tools and Templates required implementing Agile.
Assessing Agile implementation of different projects, identifying any gaps or improvement areas.
This session covered practical experience of how we built a successful Center of Excellence, which become a big enabler for successful Agile transformation.
Agile Methodology Vs. Others by Sara BerradaAgile ME
This presentation compares and contrast the agile methodology for project management with the strategic, traditional and extreme project management methods. Furthermore, it will criticize and analyze the efficiency implementation of these ways in different industries and projects nowadays.
In addition, it will present the different requirements needed for each methodology to adopt it successfully. Finally, speaker will present some project examples, failure and success, of these methods to open the door for discussion.
Successful Agile Transformation - The NCS StoryNUS-ISS
Presented by Mr Lee Chee Yong, Agile Practice Lead of NCS Agile Competency Centre at ISS Seminar - Agile Software Development: Swift and the Shift on 18 July 2014.
Life Has Not Been That Rosy With Agile : Rahul SudameoGuild .
In my experience, Agile adoption started in some of the organizations with lot of hype and inflated expectations. And in such cases, if Agile transformation is not handled properly, it can result in multiple challenges rather than providing the expected benefits.
This practical experience sharing session would cover some such problems I faced while applying Agile in different environments. The audience practicing Agile can relate some of these challenges with their own environment as well. The attendees who are on their path to Agile transformation can learn from the lessons and mistakes shared by the speaker.
The session would cover challenges observed due to nature of the project, customer-vendor engagement model, application of processes, attitude of people rolling out agile, unrealistic expectations, conflict in roles and responsibilities. It would also highlight challenges introduced to some of the roles (like Project/QA Manager/Manual Tester etc.) in Agile environment and impact on billing / project contracts / SOW etc.
Validating Delivered Business Value – Going Beyond “Actual Business Value”Yuval Yeret
Actual is a relative term when it comes to business value delivered by a SAFe PI Objective. In this talk we will explore techniques for validating the actual value delivered by SAFe Teams and ARTs based on real-world outcomes that can be evaluated post-release. RTEs, Product Management and Lean/Agile Leaders will be able to assess their current ability to validate value and learn specific practices they could add to their artifacts and events. Finally, we will take a deeper look at optionality and hypothesis-driven thinking in SAFe and challenge the comfort zone on how to properly use some of SAFe’s essential elements in this context.
Learning Objectives:
Assess their competency level of their ART/Program when it comes to ability to validate value
Evolve their Inspect and Adapt events to enable validation value based on real outcomes
Extend their Program and Portfolio Kanbans to help manage the flow of learning and validation.
How to measure the outcome of agile transformationRahul Sudame
This presentation covers details on how we can measure that Agile Transformation is providing the intended outcome or not. I presents a research & survey which tries to understand how different people measure value of Agile Transformation
Agile Center of Excellence : Presented by Rahul Sudame oGuild .
When any organization plans to move to Agile methodology, it needs to plan multiple initiatives for successful transition. One of the important initiative would be building an Agile Center of Excellence, a team which would support for consistency of Agile implementation across the organization. The Agile CoE we built worked on multiple aspects such as:
Defining organization-wide Agile methodology, tailoring it as per organization environment if required.
Build knowledge of Agile across the organization.
Supporting the team members with any ongoing queries.
Support in building required Tools and Templates required implementing Agile.
Assessing Agile implementation of different projects, identifying any gaps or improvement areas.
This session covered practical experience of how we built a successful Center of Excellence, which become a big enabler for successful Agile transformation.
Agile Methodology Vs. Others by Sara BerradaAgile ME
This presentation compares and contrast the agile methodology for project management with the strategic, traditional and extreme project management methods. Furthermore, it will criticize and analyze the efficiency implementation of these ways in different industries and projects nowadays.
In addition, it will present the different requirements needed for each methodology to adopt it successfully. Finally, speaker will present some project examples, failure and success, of these methods to open the door for discussion.
Successful Agile Transformation - The NCS StoryNUS-ISS
Presented by Mr Lee Chee Yong, Agile Practice Lead of NCS Agile Competency Centre at ISS Seminar - Agile Software Development: Swift and the Shift on 18 July 2014.
Scaling your agile implementation across multiple teams in large organizations is always a challenge.
In this webinar, Ragia and Asmaa shared their experiences about:
- Why scaling?
- Different scaling frameworks?
- SAFe configurations
- SAFe pros & cons
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Building Quality In in SAFe – The Testing Organization’s Perspective Yuval Yeret
SAFe emphasizes Building Quality In. We will take a deep dive into how this looks from a testing organization’s perspective and what does a SAFe implementation mean for Testing/QA professionals. We will map SAFe’s approach to best practices in the “”Agile Testing”” world. We will look at examples from the real world of how traditional testing organizations shift left and evolve towards continuous testing.
Learning Objectives and Key Takeaways:
Understand how best practices from the “”Agile Testing”” world map to SAFe’s context
Learn ideas and patterns for evolving Testing/QA’s role during a SAFe implementation
Understand how Test-Driven looks like and how techniques like Acceptance-Test-Driven-Design/Behavior-Driven
Development can empower testers as well as improve the flow on SAFe agile teams.
See how SAFe’s principles can be used to guide the evolution towards a lean/agile testing organization
What HR Can Learn From American Idol to Improve Individual, Team, and Organi...rcsatterwhite
The popularity of American Idol rests on its ability to integrate and simplify six basic elements of a successful performance appraisal process: standards, auditions, critiques, developmental suggestions, advisors, and advertisements – which, in HR terms, are criteria, performance, ratings, feedback, mentors, and communication (respectively). This virtual session will focus on how to leverage the performance appraisal elements embodied by this smash hit to drive performance at individual, team, and organizational levels, including: 1) various criteria used to evaluate performance; 2) the importance of opportunities to display and observe performance; 3) how ratings can be used to propel performance; 4) linking evaluations to feedback and action planning; 5) the relationship between mentoring and performance; and 6) the significance of communication to program success.
Presentation on introduction to agile (The when part) and comparison with waterfall model.
Agile approach to planning and why planning fails in traditional method.
This presentation was part of my session in "Agile in Business" seminar in Chennai on July 27th, 2013, organized by Unicom. This addresses the different aspects to be considered when a test team is transformed in an Agile set-up performing Agile Testing.
Are you trapped in a hamster wheel of meetings, updating tracking tools, trying to keep stories progressing and generally being the “Scrum secretary” for everything that others are not doing themselves? Whilst you might be aware that this is not the most effective way to spend your time, you may not know how to transition out of this situation and what the more impactful activities are to transition to.
In this session we will explore what the most effective Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches focus on as well as some strategies for freeing up your time and building your skills in order to make a much bigger difference for your Scrum Team and surrounding organisation.
Journey towards better software development management using lean/kanban flow approaches - especially focused on service delivery in software sustainment.
Trying to provide a somewhat fresh view of how to get to kanban thinking, but based on the current recipes (e.g. David Anderson recipe for success)
Measuring What Matters in Your Agile TransformationBrad Swanson
So you’ve decided to “go Agile”. Why? How can you clearly articulate the business goals of your agile transformation, and how can you effectively measure your progress and success?
We will show how to use the Agile Strategy Map™ to define your Agile transformation strategy, and give real-world examples of strategies used successfully by many organizations. Participants will get practice using the Strategy Map and identifying some metrics that matter.
Before starting the journey to becoming an agile organization, it’s critical to define your business objectives: quality, time to market, productivity, customer satisfaction, innovation, employee engagement, or whatever challenges you need to address. To make those goals real, they need to be measurable. Because the journey may be long, you need both leading indicators to know if you’re going in the right direction, and lagging indicators to tell if your goals have been met.
Agile software development methodology is sweeping the IT Industry. Many organizations are experimenting with Agility and there are many “brands” of Agile including Scrum, XP, Lean, Crystal Clear and DSDM. Adoption of one of these methodologies could be wholesale in the case of a small well defined project that has no dependencies on other projects and can be completely delivered by a trained and motivated team. As these types of adoptions are rare organizations are looking for ways to ease into Agile practices without losing productivity.
This session is designed to discuss and identify ways that agile enablers can facilitate the transition to Agile practices. Participants learn basic Agile practices as well as techniques for introducing them to the software delivery team. This session will present common software delivery problems and the Agile path to solutions.
Assessing Your Agile Marketing Maturity LevelYuval Yeret
Why assess the level of Agile Marketing? Teams, Managers and Coaches can quickly evaluate the current capability of a team/group, in order to:
See how the capability measures against the recommended level for benefiting from marketing agility
Guide the team/group on what to improve next
See, over time, the evolution of agility (positive or negative trend)
See the impact of the team/group improvement work
See the impact of organizational/structural changes that are outside the team/group’s control (costs reductions, distributed, etc.)
Motivate! Get acheivements and recognition for reaching higher agility levels (Emphasize intrinsic motivation!)
Contact AgileSparks at http://www.agilesparks.com/services/agile-marketing for a downloadable version (and an excel sheet coming soon!)
Two stories of self-designing feature teams and learnings from that experience. The autonomy of teams to form and re-form themselves to build teams, that manage themselves to deliver value to customers frequently can be a real boost of motivation and performance.
Essential SAFe® 4.0 is a subset of big picture SAFe 4.0 framework. It is good starting point for self-learners. This slideshow cover essential aspects of SAFe framework.
It is a primer to Scaled Agile Framework.
Scaling your agile implementation across multiple teams in large organizations is always a challenge.
In this webinar, Ragia and Asmaa shared their experiences about:
- Why scaling?
- Different scaling frameworks?
- SAFe configurations
- SAFe pros & cons
============== Follow us ==============
Website: http://xpdays.org
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xpdays
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xpdaysorg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xpdaysorg
#agile #scaling #xpdays #agilearena
Building Quality In in SAFe – The Testing Organization’s Perspective Yuval Yeret
SAFe emphasizes Building Quality In. We will take a deep dive into how this looks from a testing organization’s perspective and what does a SAFe implementation mean for Testing/QA professionals. We will map SAFe’s approach to best practices in the “”Agile Testing”” world. We will look at examples from the real world of how traditional testing organizations shift left and evolve towards continuous testing.
Learning Objectives and Key Takeaways:
Understand how best practices from the “”Agile Testing”” world map to SAFe’s context
Learn ideas and patterns for evolving Testing/QA’s role during a SAFe implementation
Understand how Test-Driven looks like and how techniques like Acceptance-Test-Driven-Design/Behavior-Driven
Development can empower testers as well as improve the flow on SAFe agile teams.
See how SAFe’s principles can be used to guide the evolution towards a lean/agile testing organization
What HR Can Learn From American Idol to Improve Individual, Team, and Organi...rcsatterwhite
The popularity of American Idol rests on its ability to integrate and simplify six basic elements of a successful performance appraisal process: standards, auditions, critiques, developmental suggestions, advisors, and advertisements – which, in HR terms, are criteria, performance, ratings, feedback, mentors, and communication (respectively). This virtual session will focus on how to leverage the performance appraisal elements embodied by this smash hit to drive performance at individual, team, and organizational levels, including: 1) various criteria used to evaluate performance; 2) the importance of opportunities to display and observe performance; 3) how ratings can be used to propel performance; 4) linking evaluations to feedback and action planning; 5) the relationship between mentoring and performance; and 6) the significance of communication to program success.
Presentation on introduction to agile (The when part) and comparison with waterfall model.
Agile approach to planning and why planning fails in traditional method.
This presentation was part of my session in "Agile in Business" seminar in Chennai on July 27th, 2013, organized by Unicom. This addresses the different aspects to be considered when a test team is transformed in an Agile set-up performing Agile Testing.
Are you trapped in a hamster wheel of meetings, updating tracking tools, trying to keep stories progressing and generally being the “Scrum secretary” for everything that others are not doing themselves? Whilst you might be aware that this is not the most effective way to spend your time, you may not know how to transition out of this situation and what the more impactful activities are to transition to.
In this session we will explore what the most effective Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches focus on as well as some strategies for freeing up your time and building your skills in order to make a much bigger difference for your Scrum Team and surrounding organisation.
Journey towards better software development management using lean/kanban flow approaches - especially focused on service delivery in software sustainment.
Trying to provide a somewhat fresh view of how to get to kanban thinking, but based on the current recipes (e.g. David Anderson recipe for success)
Measuring What Matters in Your Agile TransformationBrad Swanson
So you’ve decided to “go Agile”. Why? How can you clearly articulate the business goals of your agile transformation, and how can you effectively measure your progress and success?
We will show how to use the Agile Strategy Map™ to define your Agile transformation strategy, and give real-world examples of strategies used successfully by many organizations. Participants will get practice using the Strategy Map and identifying some metrics that matter.
Before starting the journey to becoming an agile organization, it’s critical to define your business objectives: quality, time to market, productivity, customer satisfaction, innovation, employee engagement, or whatever challenges you need to address. To make those goals real, they need to be measurable. Because the journey may be long, you need both leading indicators to know if you’re going in the right direction, and lagging indicators to tell if your goals have been met.
Agile software development methodology is sweeping the IT Industry. Many organizations are experimenting with Agility and there are many “brands” of Agile including Scrum, XP, Lean, Crystal Clear and DSDM. Adoption of one of these methodologies could be wholesale in the case of a small well defined project that has no dependencies on other projects and can be completely delivered by a trained and motivated team. As these types of adoptions are rare organizations are looking for ways to ease into Agile practices without losing productivity.
This session is designed to discuss and identify ways that agile enablers can facilitate the transition to Agile practices. Participants learn basic Agile practices as well as techniques for introducing them to the software delivery team. This session will present common software delivery problems and the Agile path to solutions.
Assessing Your Agile Marketing Maturity LevelYuval Yeret
Why assess the level of Agile Marketing? Teams, Managers and Coaches can quickly evaluate the current capability of a team/group, in order to:
See how the capability measures against the recommended level for benefiting from marketing agility
Guide the team/group on what to improve next
See, over time, the evolution of agility (positive or negative trend)
See the impact of the team/group improvement work
See the impact of organizational/structural changes that are outside the team/group’s control (costs reductions, distributed, etc.)
Motivate! Get acheivements and recognition for reaching higher agility levels (Emphasize intrinsic motivation!)
Contact AgileSparks at http://www.agilesparks.com/services/agile-marketing for a downloadable version (and an excel sheet coming soon!)
Two stories of self-designing feature teams and learnings from that experience. The autonomy of teams to form and re-form themselves to build teams, that manage themselves to deliver value to customers frequently can be a real boost of motivation and performance.
Essential SAFe® 4.0 is a subset of big picture SAFe 4.0 framework. It is good starting point for self-learners. This slideshow cover essential aspects of SAFe framework.
It is a primer to Scaled Agile Framework.
Product Owner in Agile/Scrum is the single person responsible for maximizing the return on investment (ROI) of the development effort
Responsible for product vision
Constantly re-prioritizes the Product Backlog, adjusting any long-term expectations such as release plans
Final arbiter of requirements questions
Decides whether to release
Decides whether to continue the development
Considers stakeholder interests
May contribute as a team member
Has a leadership role
Must be available to the Team at any time
Qu'est-ce donc que l'Agilité déjà ?
Quelle est la différence avec Scrum ?
Je fais quoi avec mon Gantt ?
Est-ce que le Web est un bon candidat ?
Pourquoi est-ce que je vis autant de difficultés ?
Par où dois-je commencer ?
Cette introduction (ou ré-introduction) vise les vendus et les désabusés, les initiés et les nouveaux intéressés. C'est un rafraichissement sur l'agilité qui permettra de faire un petit pas en arrière et mieux préparer les prochains. Pour certains, ce sera un retour sur les fondements de l'agilité et pour d'autres ce sera la satisfaction d'une curiosité qui perdure. Avec plus de dix ans d'expérience, l'agilité a maturée mais pourquoi reste-t-elle difficile à maitriser ?
Martin Goyette
Martin est un professionnel en accompagnement qui sert et conseille le domaine des technologies de l'information depuis plus d'une dizaine d'années (télécommunications, transport, bancaire, syndicat, santé, assurances). À titre de président de la Communauté Agile de Montréal, Martin est fortement impliqué dans la promotion de sa passion et ses croyances. Martin est diplômé de l'ÉTS d’un baccalauréat en génie logiciel et d’une maîtrise en génie, technologies de l'information. Depuis 2008, il se consacre à Lean ainsi qu'à l'agilité et a obtenu plusieurs reconnaissances professionnelles venant certifier son expérience.
About Agile & PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) OverviewAleem Khan
A properly implemented Agile method increases the speed of development, aligns individual and organization objectives, creates a culture driven by performance, supports shareholder value creation, achieves stable and consistent communication of performance at all levels, and enhances individual development and quality of life.
A view on Agile Development from a management, software development and business analysis perspective. Using the Fluency Model to understand what level your company needs to be at in order to be a truly Agile organisation.
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a systematic frameworks that helps to deliver products on time with high quality. This presentation gives some real time case studies and establishes case for having a standard framework. It also covers major phases involved in product development.
When Management Asks You: “Do You Accept Agile as Your Lord and Savior?” - Ci...admford
Updated version of my original Cyphercon talk. With more useful information regarding how to enact change and better visual representation of certain concepts. This talk was given at CircleCityCon 10 in 2023
Agile software development development explainedServan Huegen
Explanation of different types of project approaches. From classic waterfall via Agile, Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe, Spotify Engineering Culture to Lean Startup and some eye opening tips and tricks.
Similar to Agile ncr pramila hitachi consulting_future_coaching (20)
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
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
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
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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.
1. Nuances of Building a Product Organization
within a Services Company
Process, Mindset, System Transformation for tomorrow's world
PRAMILA THOMAS
DELIVERY DIRECTOR
HITACHI CONSULTING COMPANY
2. What are we
going to learn?
(and why it’s important
to learn now).
IT IS NOT EASY, MANY CAVEATS AND
NO UNIVERSAL SOLUTIONS:
1. PROJECT TYPES: FIXED BID
ENGAGEMENTS ON SCRUM
2. DISTRIBUTED TEAM: THEIR
WORKING AND COLLABORATION
3. QUANTITATIVE MANAGEMENT:
PERSISTENT CONFUSION AS TO
WHAT TO COMMIT IN TERMS OF
MEASUREMENT
4. PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL : ONE
SIZE FITS ALL APPRAISAL
5. TOOLS: IS EXCEL NOT ENOUGH?
6. OUR CALL TO ACTION
3. Sailing in the same boat….
Water Scrum Fall ?
Hockey Stick Delivery
Is Agile Cool
A Selling Strategy ?
A few enthusiasts and many waterfall believers
!!
Agile is for lazy people !!
Agile and Devops are bad words
What does being agile mean to teams?
Practices that work & those that don’t &
what to do about them
Shun the fear: Packaging things
differently
Advantages of making mistakes
Tearing masks people wear to work
4. Takeaways
Process, Mindset, System Transformation
Adorning the right mindset
Differentiate between Agile and Agility
Facing the Future
Moving from Services to Value Engineering
Inspire the next ! Make things better !
6. Water – Scrum - Fall
Requirements
Understanding
Sign-
off
Design
& Planning
Analysis
Dev
Testing
Demo
0..n
S.I.T Release
• No Shared vision
• Componentized teams
• Deadline driven than Quality
• Hockey Stick delivery
• Long Testing Cycles
• Challenging Deployments
• Agile/Scrum a selling strategy
8. Managing Fixed Bid Engagements
Structure requirements into multiple phases & tie payment milestones to the phase
High order business value & impact mapping must drive requirements; eliminate low
value items to last phase
Design workshops/Paper modeling/prototypes to understand requirements with
business users
Be connected & engaged with client, don’t rejoice over CRs
Customers are changing – deliver business value within budget
Don’t be limited by your client counterparts business knowledge, reach beyond or invest
in a domain expert
Stand on Quality; demand premium – institute mature technical quality practices
• Domain
• Architecture
9. Holistic Approach is the key
Before After
Two Big Phases in Scope Phases broken down to work-packages
No difference between high value & low value items – within scope
or not only mattered
Prioritized high order value items
Componentized Teams Feature based teams
UI driven development Business Feature/User Story driven
Integration testing post development Integration testing within sprint
Demos to Client just before SIT Sprint Demos
Huge list of bugs in SIT 22% Reduced defects in UAT < 7%
Missing SMEs SME lead Client collaboration
Weak Technical Quality practices CI/CD
11. Challenges in distributed teams
Less Scrumming
Lack of belief in Scrum
Attrition
“Working hard, but not smart”
Inefficiencies hidden
Many lessons learnt, little improvement
Going through the motion
15. Assess ground reality
Less trust on team
“There is some confidence gap between Client and team
which is leading to some unease in accepting new things”
• Delivery of code is more complicated than development of code
• No Breaks between releases
• Not acting what is discussed in the Sprint Retrospection
• Not many ready user story, consumption of time in Sprint Planning
day
• Sensitivity towards setting up the local working environment.
• Calling everything as a priority
• Very less recognitions to testers.
• Delivery friction between scrum teams due to dependency
• Delivering all sprint stories to QA just 2 days before end of the sprint.
• Changing stances by architects during deployment review
• Waiting time to get clarifications of the requirements
• Environment maintenance
• Deployment process
• Developer should be given a comfortable time to work on a piece of
work rather pushing him to meet the dead lines, so that he will be
able to deliver a quality code. Note: ….responsible people will try
new/Innovative things at work which would add value to the project.
• No Agenda, deviations in every meeting I attend.
• Weekend work “
Continued
21. Continuous Assessments, Training & Certification
Sharpening the Saw
Skill Assessment (Domain/Tech)
Technical Audit
Role change
Team rotation
Pair Quality Development
Experiments on Innovative Features
- Code Kata
Retention & Career Development
24. Why Measure?
Enables Early warning system => early course corrections
Trend and predictive analysis => well informed decision making
Treats cause than the symptom => stops recurrence of issues
Advisory to right investments => increase in stakeholder satisfaction (internal and
external)
Demonstrate Continuous improvement => Faster time to market
Manage by Quantitative Objectives
Know thyself before thy customer tell thee who you are
25. What to Measure?
Not all metrics are useful
Plethora of metrics are available but an assessment of the PDLC may be
required to recommend a right set of metrics
Metrics must align to business targets
26. When to Measure?
Intensity of the business problems may
require measurements as early and often as
possible
Periodicity- time bound basis (daily, weekly or
iteration wise)
Milestone/Phase - on completion of a specific
milestone
Review on a quarterly basis and retire metrics not
yielding business value
30. Performance Appraisal
KPIs at both Team and Individual level
Team – Moving team from Performing to
High-performing teams
Achieving Sprint Commitment
Be wary of team fighting for Story points with
PO, negotiating hard on sprint scope
Achieving Quality Targets (usually tied to
definition of done)
Define Quality in objective numbers and not
quality
Depend on tools
Retrospection improvements
Individual - Frequent feedback
Innovation (this could also be at the team level
in case of SAFE)
Improvements in assessments (discussed
earlier)
Agility Behaviours & values
38. New Methodology – Make others better !
We believe that
[building this feature]
[for these people]
will achieve
[this outcome]
We will know we are
Successful when we see
[this signal from the
business users]
39. Mindset - Collaboration
“Best architectures,
requirements,
designs emerge
from self-
organizing teams” –
Manifesto for Agile
Software
Development
