Microsoft has embarked on its DevOps journey more than 8 years ago, when it started modeling a new set of engineering tools and practices called One Engineering System (1ES), fully based on their own platforms – Azure DevOps (ex Visual Studio Team Services - VSTS) and Azure. Since then, multiple product development teams have gone through a massive transition in terms of how they organize their work and deal with infrastructure, tools and processes.
This session tells the story of the transformation of 70+ teams with more than 800 people that develop Azure DevOps, both Service and Server (ex Team Foundation Server – TFS). These teams have been previously producing the monolithic 3-tier on premises TFS environment every couple of years. Nowadays, they moved to the cloud cadence and deliver daily updates to Azure DevOps Services, their global scale, always available, cloud SaaS service made up of dozens of micro-services. At the same time, they deliver the same capabilities on premises every couple of months.
Join us to learn how Microsoft’s teams transitioned from an inert waterfall to a highly performing agile organization, whereby drastically changing the way how they develop, test, deploy and monitor their products. We will explain how they manage large agile distributed product development, how they improved their development process by switching to GIT, how they changed their approach to testing and quality control and managed to take full control over their technical debt.
Accenture DevOps: Delivering applications at the pace of businessAccenture Technology
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
Replacing and Augmenting F5 BIG-IP with NGINX PlusNGINX, Inc.
The way we build applications has changed a lot since 1996, when F5 BIG-IP was released. Companies that use F5 BIG-IP complain of high cost and lack of agility. In this webinar we describe how to replace or augment your F5 BIG-IP deployment with NGINX Plus for cost savings and greater agility.
Watch this webinar to learn:
- A brief history of F5 Networks and the BIG-IP, from initial release to early success
- About five industry trends that are disrupting F5 and making F5 BIG-IP a hindrance to the modern enterprise looking for agility
- Three ways to gracefully replace or augment F5 BIG-IP with NGINX Plus, without having to rip and replace
- About application architectures possible with NGINX Plus, but not with F5 BIG-IP, such as API gateways
On-Demand Link: https://www.nginx.com/resources/webinars/replacing-augmenting-f5-big-ip-nginx-plus/
Accenture DevOps: Delivering applications at the pace of businessAccenture Technology
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
Replacing and Augmenting F5 BIG-IP with NGINX PlusNGINX, Inc.
The way we build applications has changed a lot since 1996, when F5 BIG-IP was released. Companies that use F5 BIG-IP complain of high cost and lack of agility. In this webinar we describe how to replace or augment your F5 BIG-IP deployment with NGINX Plus for cost savings and greater agility.
Watch this webinar to learn:
- A brief history of F5 Networks and the BIG-IP, from initial release to early success
- About five industry trends that are disrupting F5 and making F5 BIG-IP a hindrance to the modern enterprise looking for agility
- Three ways to gracefully replace or augment F5 BIG-IP with NGINX Plus, without having to rip and replace
- About application architectures possible with NGINX Plus, but not with F5 BIG-IP, such as API gateways
On-Demand Link: https://www.nginx.com/resources/webinars/replacing-augmenting-f5-big-ip-nginx-plus/
The presentation will lead you through a step-by-step process of creating SaaS solution. The architecture design method is influenced by ADD (Attribute-Driven Design) and SaaS Reference Architecture that developed by SoftServe Architecture Group.
Ready-to-use Reference Architectures that addresses typical challenges with proven approaches to solve them (i.e., patterns) significantly speeds up the design and implementation process, making it more predictable and economical.
For a beginner, this is a good quality pictorial representation of DevOps and DevOps Center of Excellence.
Opex Software focuses on consulting, implementation and development of DevOps tools and platforms. Have helped small and large data centers! This presentation talks about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery at a high level. For detailed presentations and flows, please ping us.
Thanks again, Enjoy!
Building Cloud-Native App Series - Part 11 of 11
Microservices Architecture Series
Service Mesh - Observability
- Zipkin
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Kiali
Structuring the right team for DevOps without Re-Organization. I presented this at DevOps Fusion 2015. Tips include rapid feedback loop, value stream analysis, etc.
How to test infrastructure code: automated testing for Terraform, Kubernetes,...Yevgeniy Brikman
This talk is a step-by-step, live-coding class on how to write automated tests for infrastructure code, including the code you write for use with tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and Packer. Topics covered include unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, test parallelism, retries, error handling, static analysis, and more.
Explore the challenges of migrating existing applications to a cloud infrastructure, then present proven strategies for mitigating the risks You'll learn how to:
- Prioritize application migration
- Plan for “big-blocks”
- Assess your existing applications' ‘fit’ for cloud
- Leverage a centralized development testing platform to align your business goals with coding decisions
- Create a cloud migration policy
- Use process to mitigate the risks associated with cloud migration
Service meshes are relatively new, extremely powerful and can be complex. There’s a lot of information out there on what a service mesh is and what it can do, but it’s a lot to sort through. Sometimes, it’s helpful to have a guide. If you’ve been asking questions like “What is a service mesh?” “Why would I use one?” “What benefits can it provide?” or “How did people even come up with the idea for service mesh?” then The Complete Guide to Service Mesh is for you.
DevOps Transformation in BH Telecom – Case Study by Jasmin Ahmetbašić and Edi...Bosnia Agile
Telecommunications market has been disrupted and Communications Service Providers (CSP) are at the point of relentless change. The shift to digital has created, on one side, new customer and partner expectations in products and services, type of engagement and level of control. On the other
side Telcos are transitioning from CSPs to a Digital Service Provider (DSP) by unlocking service-centric operating model for greater agility driving network and IT convergence. The need to achieve the highest levels of adaptability, speed and efficiency to address market challenges of digital era.
ZIRA DevOps toolchains and pipelines enabled the automation required by BH Telecom to practice continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous operations without down-time utilizing specific software architecture models such as micro services and well documented APIs.
ZIRA & BHT together drew up a structured approach covering People, Process & Technology to identify actions that improve practices across each of these categories. This DevOps Transformation covered the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle including an expanded set of stakeholders such as
business owners and end users, and industry-proven practices. Continuous delivery was the desired future-state achieved with the application of a DevOps approach.
The presentation will lead you through a step-by-step process of creating SaaS solution. The architecture design method is influenced by ADD (Attribute-Driven Design) and SaaS Reference Architecture that developed by SoftServe Architecture Group.
Ready-to-use Reference Architectures that addresses typical challenges with proven approaches to solve them (i.e., patterns) significantly speeds up the design and implementation process, making it more predictable and economical.
For a beginner, this is a good quality pictorial representation of DevOps and DevOps Center of Excellence.
Opex Software focuses on consulting, implementation and development of DevOps tools and platforms. Have helped small and large data centers! This presentation talks about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery at a high level. For detailed presentations and flows, please ping us.
Thanks again, Enjoy!
Building Cloud-Native App Series - Part 11 of 11
Microservices Architecture Series
Service Mesh - Observability
- Zipkin
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Kiali
Structuring the right team for DevOps without Re-Organization. I presented this at DevOps Fusion 2015. Tips include rapid feedback loop, value stream analysis, etc.
How to test infrastructure code: automated testing for Terraform, Kubernetes,...Yevgeniy Brikman
This talk is a step-by-step, live-coding class on how to write automated tests for infrastructure code, including the code you write for use with tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and Packer. Topics covered include unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, test parallelism, retries, error handling, static analysis, and more.
Explore the challenges of migrating existing applications to a cloud infrastructure, then present proven strategies for mitigating the risks You'll learn how to:
- Prioritize application migration
- Plan for “big-blocks”
- Assess your existing applications' ‘fit’ for cloud
- Leverage a centralized development testing platform to align your business goals with coding decisions
- Create a cloud migration policy
- Use process to mitigate the risks associated with cloud migration
Service meshes are relatively new, extremely powerful and can be complex. There’s a lot of information out there on what a service mesh is and what it can do, but it’s a lot to sort through. Sometimes, it’s helpful to have a guide. If you’ve been asking questions like “What is a service mesh?” “Why would I use one?” “What benefits can it provide?” or “How did people even come up with the idea for service mesh?” then The Complete Guide to Service Mesh is for you.
DevOps Transformation in BH Telecom – Case Study by Jasmin Ahmetbašić and Edi...Bosnia Agile
Telecommunications market has been disrupted and Communications Service Providers (CSP) are at the point of relentless change. The shift to digital has created, on one side, new customer and partner expectations in products and services, type of engagement and level of control. On the other
side Telcos are transitioning from CSPs to a Digital Service Provider (DSP) by unlocking service-centric operating model for greater agility driving network and IT convergence. The need to achieve the highest levels of adaptability, speed and efficiency to address market challenges of digital era.
ZIRA DevOps toolchains and pipelines enabled the automation required by BH Telecom to practice continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous operations without down-time utilizing specific software architecture models such as micro services and well documented APIs.
ZIRA & BHT together drew up a structured approach covering People, Process & Technology to identify actions that improve practices across each of these categories. This DevOps Transformation covered the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle including an expanded set of stakeholders such as
business owners and end users, and industry-proven practices. Continuous delivery was the desired future-state achieved with the application of a DevOps approach.
Mobile Websites und (Web)-Apps mit jQuery MobilePeter Hecker
jQuery Mobile ist ein Oberflächen-Web-Framework für Smartphones und Tablets. Es benutzt als Basis den quasi JavaScript-Industriestandard jQuery. Bei der Entwicklung von jQuery Mobile hat man besonderen Wert auf die Lauffähigkeit unter verschiedenen Betriebssystemen und Geräten gelegt. jQuery Mobile unterstützt iOS, Android, Blackberry, Bada, Windows Phone, webOS, symbian und MeeGo. Für die Entwicklung touch-optimierter Oberflächen bietet jQuery Mobile eine Vielzahl von Layout- und Formularelementen. Es gibt verschiedenen Listen, Detailansichten, Dialoge und Spezialelemente wie Slider, Toggles, Tabs etc. jQuery Mobile unterstützt von Hause aus unterschiedliche grafische Themen, die auch leicht angepasst und erweitert werden können. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in jQuery Mobile wird eine mobile Web-Anwendung auf Basis von ASP.NET entwickelt und vorgestellt.
Technology and Digital Platform | 2019 partner summitAndrew Kumar
Technology: Andrew Kumar will share a refresher of our technology standards, documentation while highlighting what is changing in 2019 in the reference architecture and starter kits.
Digital Platform: Andrew Kumar will follow tech and design updates with a refresher on why the digital platform matters, what exists in the digital platform, what is being worked on, and what is coming next as we co-create value, save team member effort, and improve speed to market with investments in the digital platform.
Azure Days 2019: Azure Chatbot Development for Airline Irregularities (Remco ...Trivadis
During major irregularities, the service desks of airline companies are heavily overloaded for short periods of time. A chatbot could help out during these peak hours. In this session we show how SWISS International Airlines developed a chatbot for irregularity handling. We shed light on the challenges, such as sensitive customer data and a company starting its journey into the cloud.
1) Learn about Myplanet's Headless CMS solution using Gatsby Preview and Contentful’s UI Extensions (https://www.contentful.com/resources/serverless/)
2) their Serverless project with IBM - using Apache OpenWhisk (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/functions)
3) how Myplanet got involved with AWS DeepRacer - a fun way to get started with Reinforcement Learning (RL), and their racing experience at re:Invent DeepRacer League (https://reinvent.awsevents.com/learn/deepracer/)
4) their Machine Learning (ML) research related to finding DeepRacer’s ideal line (https://medium.com/myplanet-musings/the-best-path-a-deepracer-can-learn-2a468a3f6d64).
BONUS: Two TED Talks referenced in the intro
5) When ideas have sex | Matt Ridley | Jul 14, 2010 https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex
6) Why The Best Leaders Make Love The Top Priority | Matt Tenney | Dec 5, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVoohdyI6I
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ZH1xxmBNx5k
Building Generative AI-infused apps: what's possible and how to startMaxim Salnikov
In this session, we'll explore different scenarios where the features of Generative AI can provide added value to an IT solution. We'll also learn how to begin developing your own application powered by AI. Using Azure OpenAI service as an illustration, we'll examine the various APIs it offers, review the best practices of Prompt Engineering, explore different ways to incorporate your own data into the process, and take a glance at several tools and resources that make the developer experience more seamless.
The Modern Tech Stack: Microservices - The Dark SideAggregage
A few years ago, Barclays embarked on a journey to migrate its legacy services to a modern tech stack with the objective of achieving a high level of scale, resilience, and reliability. During the incremental, iterative move towards an ecosystem of focused, distributed services, it’s fair to say that the company discovered the challenges of distributing objects. Join us for an episode you can’t miss if you’re finding it a lot harder to architect in practice than in theory, and learn how you can shed light on the dark side of microservices.
Todo o Azure DevOps no terminal
Em plataformas como GNU Linux é muito comum estar no terminal durante o desenvolvimento de software. E usar o Azure DevOps no termnal é completamente possível, vamos criar repositórios, pipelines e até mesmo verificar o trabalho que precisa ser feito, tudo no Bash.
Os slides foram usados na introdução da palestra. Todo
The PPT contains the following content:
1. What is Google Cloud Study Jam
2. What is Cloud Computing
3. Fundamentals of cloud computing
4. what is Generative AI
5. Fundamentals of Generative AI
6. Breif overview on Google Cloud Study Jam.
7. Networking Session.
Title: The Trinity in Exponential Technologies: Open Source, Blockchain and Microsoft Azure.
This talk will explore how Open Source, Blockchain and the Microsoft Cloud provide the best combination of emerging technologies by means of a perfect synergy in terms of technological shift as well as ecosystem collaboration, with a special focus on Blockchain enterprise solutions and use cases. It will also provide insightful information about best practices, common mistakes and the use of Azure as a managed Blockchain platform (BaaS – Blockchain as a Service).
Scalable full-stack development at the edge - Pascal Wolkotte - Codemotion Am...Codemotion
At Quby we created Toon, the market’s best smart thermostat. The Toon IoT ecosystem covers a broad range of software stacks, ranging from embedded systems, mobile app, big data, edge computing, micro-services and everything in-between. Find out in this session how we ensure the maintainability of the existing, resource constrained, install-base of embedded IoT devices, and in parallel keep up with expanding the platform with additional new services.
Psychological Safety and Remote Work by Matthew PhilipBosnia Agile
Over the last four years, the world has experienced an unprecedented shift to remote and hybrid work environments. This poses questions for those interested in high-performing teams, because physical distance from our teammates has created challenges to fostering and increasing psychological safety.
This talk presents original research on and explores the relationship of remote environments and psychological safety. Participants will learn about factors that impact safety in a remote environment and ways to promote safety in remote and hybrid teams, as well as implications for leadership, teamwork and generative work across all environments, in-person, hybrid and remote.
Agile playground - Navigating Change Through Continuous experimentation by St...Bosnia Agile
Exciting journey into the world of agile game development, where creativity meets efficiency. In this session, we will explore the dynamic realm of tailor-made approaches for crafting engaging and enjoyable products. Stefan will introduce the concept of fast experimentation cycles in the Agile Playground telling the story of a Team that produced one of the most popular games in the world
Goal of the session:
Understanding the importance of experimentation. Getting to know practices that help with experimenting and something to try after a session with their teams.
Culture eats everything for breakfast! by Vladimir KelavaBosnia Agile
Bez obzira koliko su dobre vaše strategije za vođenje organizacije/tima, one vam neće pomoći ako je organizacijska/timska kultura loša. Procesi i prakse su važni, ali jednako važni su i vrednosti i principi. Bez njih, temelj je slab i disfunkcionalan.
Organizacije koje ovo razumiju gaje kulturu koja se temelji na jasno definiranim vrednostima koje su vodići principi kako bi se ljudi trebali ponašati i komunicirati, kako bi se trebale donositi odluke i kako bi se trebale provoditi svakodnevne aktivnosti. U takvim organizacijama vrednosti nisu samo “random” reči na plakatima koji vise u kompanijskim hodnicima…i nisu opisane u opštim i hladnim tektovima na kompanijskim portalima.
Organizacije koje ozbiljno pristupaju ovoj temi ne opisuju svoju kulturu putem linkedin, fejsbuk i instagram objava na kojima ljudi igraju stolni tensi, stolni fudbal i ispijaju pivo…uz komentar - “Pogledajte našu sjajnu kulturu”. Nemam ništa protiv zabave 😉 ali….
Pridružite nam se na radionici ako želite da diskutujete:
Šta je uopšte organizaciona/timska kultura?
Uticaj kulture na organizaciju/timove
Kako gajiti organizacionu/timsku kulturu?
Kako jasno definirane vrednosti mogu koristiti vašoj organizaciji/timu?
Espoused vs Enacted vrednosti
Šta je to Management 3.0 big Value List?
Beyond Boundaries: Nurturing Psychological Safety for Tech Excellence by Barı...Bosnia Agile
In today's fast-paced tech industry, fostering an environment of psychological safety is not just a luxury but a necessity for achieving excellence. As leaders, we often focus on technical prowess and innovation, overlooking the critical role that psychological safety plays in enabling teams to thrive and innovate.
In this talk, we delve into the concept of psychological safety within the context of tech teams and explore its profound impact on innovation, collaboration, and overall team performance. We'll discuss how creating a culture where individuals feel safe to take risks, share ideas, and challenge the status quo leads to greater creativity, productivity, and resilience.
Banking Reimagined - Navigating the Adaptive transformation by Ana KafadarBosnia Agile
Sharing a real Agile story about our successes but also pitfalls and lessons learned though our organizational development journey in banking. The mission of this journey is to learn & develop towards a future fit Organization which is capable of mastering in a best possible way the challenges ahead on a mission to provide a superior value towards our customers.
Decoding Success in Pharma and e-Health by Lejla ZonićBosnia Agile
Over the past four years, I've collaborated extensively with pharmaceutical companies and engaged in various digital initiatives within the e-health sector. This experience has afforded me a deep understanding of the transformative role technology plays in the healthcare and pharma industries.
Today, clinics have hundreds of applications that streamline processes for patients, doctors, and administrative staff alike. These range from patient care to diet management, and even extend to organizational logistics, all thanks to advancements in IT. Particularly, these applications are revolutionizing areas like clinical trials and medical research, facilitating the testing of new medications and the continuous study of existing treatments. The beauty of digital applications lies in their ability to gather rich data from a broader participant base without the necessity of physical presence, which is a game-changer for patients with mobility issues.
Moreover, the rise of telemedicine and mobile health apps exemplifies how technology is not just supporting but also spearheading improvements in patient care and clinical guidelines. This evolution is paving the way for more precise, timely, and cost-effective medical research and drug development.
Historically, data collection in this field was a manual, paper-based process that required extensive travel and face-to-face interactions to meet demographic quotas and gather necessary information. Today, we have applications that integrate panel management, project tracking, and data analysis in one seamless interface, tailored to each pharmaceutical company's specific needs, and also many other sectors (like market research).
To sum up, this is about digital strategies addressing the challenges of the e-health sector and pharmaceutical industry.
Agile Experimentation in Everyday Life - A Guide to More Aha! moments by Milo...Bosnia Agile
In the realm of software development, the pursuit of accurate project estimation has been a perpetual challenge. Despite the rise of Agile methods, the specter of inaccurate estimation continues to cast a shadow over projects, leading to missed deadlines, exceeded budgets, and frustrated stakeholders.
Consider this: a groundbreaking study by the Standish Group in 1995 revealed that a staggering 31.1% of software projects were canceled before completion, with over 50% ending up costing nearly twice their initial estimates. Fast forward to the present day, and while Agile has undeniably transformed development practices, the issue of project estimation remains a thorny one.
While Agile projects boast a commendable success rate three times higher than traditional waterfall approaches, over 50% still grapple with time and cost overruns. The question then arises: why has Agile, with its iterative approach and emphasis on collaboration, not completely eradicated the problem of inaccurate estimation?
Agile introduced relative estimation, epitomized by story points, in contrast to the upfront man-day estimations of the past. However, the journey towards accurate estimation has been fraught with challenges. Despite their widespread adoption, story points have often fallen short, leading to counterintuitive outcomes. A case study within a prominent corporation revealed that stories rated lower in complexity took longer to complete than ostensibly more complex ones.
This dilemma underscores a fundamental truth: the challenge of estimation transcends estimation methods; it is deeply rooted in human nature. Our innate biases and tendencies toward optimism color our estimations, rendering them prone to error. To break free from this cycle, a paradigm shift is necessary—one that embraces a data-driven approach.
The answer: actionable agile metrics and probabilistic forecasting. By leveraging historical data, teams can move beyond guesswork toward informed decision-making. These metrics provide nuanced insights into team performance and project dynamics, empowering teams to make accurate predictions about future outcomes.
During this talk/presentation, I will share:
- the results of two studies by the Standish Group (1995, 2020)
- a case study about story points from one US corporation
- what metrics we need to gather as well as how (and why)
- some cool models and tools (through quick demos or screenshots)
In this illuminating talk, we'll demystify agile estimation, drawing from real-world examples and personal experiences. Attendees will gain practical insights into the tools and techniques that underpin effective estimation practices. By the end of the session, participants will be armed with actionable strategies and newfound knowledge to navigate the estimation challenge confidently, ensuring smoother sailing on their Agile journey.
Agile Experimentation in Everyday Life - A Guide to More Aha! moments by Milo...Bosnia Agile
When we say experiments, a classroom or a laboratory may be the first association, or possibly work (especially if you’re in tech or product). However, there’s a lot of universal value in experimentation, testing assumptions, and learning. The famous 'Inspect & Adapt' is not reserved for Scrum teams only, and it can be an important and positive approach to your life.
Agile experiments are important in our private life because they provide a framework for trying new things, learning from them, and making continuous improvements. We’re not living in a vacuum, and our realities are simply too complex for driving on ‘auto pilot’.
By setting goals, measuring results, and adapting based on regular feedback, we can make positive changes in our personal lives. On top, agile experimentation helps us overcome the fear of failure, since experiments are seen as an opportunity to learn and grow, rather than a test of our abilities (and value).
In this talk, I will share first-hand experiences, tips, and pitfalls for applying agile experimentation to our private life, fostering a growth mindset, improving problem-solving skills, and ultimately living a more interesting life.
How AI will transform agile project management by Jasna Pleho and Elvir ĆeskoBosnia Agile
Learn how artificial intelligence will alter agile project management. They will explain what AI is and why we need it. They will speak about PM tasks that can and cannot be automated and try to find proper AI tools that can be used in everyday life of a project manager.
Stay with them and explore how AI will impact the life of project managers.
Short content:
Intro: What is AI and why we need it?
What are all the tasks that a PM does?
What AI tools for the PM profession are available now?
What can be automated with existing tools?
What are the implications for the PM profession?
Conclusion: AI vs Human
How can Operational Value Streams Shape Your Product Strategy and Roadmap Suc...Bosnia Agile
Picture a world where every stakeholder within your organization effortlessly grasps and contributes to your Product Roadmaps. It may seem like an ideal scenario, but trust me, there are techniques available that can turn this vision into reality. Operational Value Streams provide a structured pathway for organizations to optimize their workflows, fostering collaboration and simplifying the visualization of your product roadmap.
Operational Value Streams, as delineated in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), offer a systematic approach to understanding and enhancing workflow across the organization. They play a pivotal role in aligning business objectives with the delivery of value to customers, enabling everyone involved to see the big picture and contribute to its realization.
A notable advantage of Operational Value Streams is their ability to offer end-to-end visibility into the product development lifecycle. By mapping out every stage and activity involved in bringing a product from concept to delivery, teams gain a comprehensive understanding of value generation and delivery.
This visibility empowers stakeholders at all levels to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement within the value stream. By analyzing these insights, teams can streamline processes, minimize waste, and optimize resource allocation. This collaborative effort ensures that the Product Roadmap reflects the collective priorities of the organization and drives success.
We've witnessed the transformative power of Operational Value Streams firsthand. Whether it's for existing products or brand-new ventures, we've created operational value stream maps that have revolutionized the way organizations visualize and execute their product strategies. Embracing this approach has not only streamlined our workflows but has also fueled innovation and growth across the board. Join me on this journey toward simplified, attainable, and impactful Product Roadmaps.
Agile is not just for software development, it’s for the whole business! by O...Bosnia Agile
In this session, Olta will discuss how Agile is influencing company culture, human resources, customers, finance, marketing, and the company as a whole. The use of traditional approaches in other departments and the agile approaches in software development departments are bringing so much noise into the environment rather than a successful agile transformation.
Supercharge your teams with Value Stream Management by Richard KnasterBosnia Agile
This presentation is on how to supercharge your teams! Value Stream Management (VSM) is a set of lean principles and practices that optimizes people, processes, and technology to continuously improve business value flow, from ideation to customer delivery.
Companies that implement Value Stream Management have seen extraordinary business improvement in car manufacturing, software, financial, and medical industries. Studies show
that very few companies have truly implemented value stream thinking, principles, and practices despite the benefits.
Data Visualization Techniques in Meteorological and Climatological World usin...Bosnia Agile
1. How to visualize .nc data in R using RNCEP library
Exempli Gratia: Mean Precipitation and Temperature Regime Map for European Countries in 2019 (w/o rasterizing)
Technical part: this part will briefly explain the importance of proper data visualization of meteorological/climatological data, especially in NWP (numerical weather prediction). The brief, comprehensive hierarchy of .nc data will be enlisted within the presentation and clarified for the audience. As an alternative, GRIB2 type will be also mentioned.
Practical part: once the technical part is clear, the programmable code will be briefly shown to audience on how to visualize the precipitation and temperature map. This will be achieved using variety of libraries and corresponding methods under CRAN repository, such as sf, lubridate, tidyverse and the most pivotal - RNCEP.
2. Our own developed NWP (numerical weather prediction) model: NOTHAS
NWP Logic: the algorithmic approach behind NOTHAS will be briefly explained as part of visualizing and parametrizing the .nc and GRIB2 data within the integrated WRF domain inside the Southeastern Europe Domain using ICON-EU, GFS, ECMWF and/or ICON-EU model data as initial parameters. The algorithm itself will be shown and onwards briefly explained for parameterized data to the audience. Final result will include the results of visualized parameters for specific scenarios.
3. Why Stripes?
Logic: a simple, yet effective way of showing the importance of global/local temperature rise caused by effects of climate change. Three colors and bunch of stripes inside one simple piece of R code will be demonstrated on the example of our country.
4. OpenGrADS
Technical part: as a software tool that has been widely used in the meteorological circles, we will briefly explain the logic behind OpenGrADS.
Exempla Gratia: show both results: the existing visual, and code our visual for 500 hPa altitude pressure anomaly using CFS data.
Creating transformation in Healthcare by Banu Gülsün, Mutlu Çiçek and Onur Ön...Bosnia Agile
In this session you will be witnessing our agile transformation journey in the healthcare business through 4 key steps:
Cultural & Mindset Change (Agile Leaders)
New Ways of Working (Pilot Squads)
Sustainable Scale (Agile Coaches)
Business Agility Scale (New Operating Model)
While we are sharing our transformation canvas, you may find yourself visualizing yours that will also trigger your creativity.
Production Support - the DevOps way by Mustafa MehmedićBosnia Agile
The concept of DevOps has been introduced to combine teams which have been functioning completely separately. It's goal is to enable continuous improvements to deliver software at a rapid pace, to respond to market conditions and customer feedback.
Sound familiar? Where the need for these is greater than in Production support – introducing the DevOps way for handling live applications support is only the next logical step, where collaboration between teams, continuous delivery and handling customers are all key factors for success. We are going to explore what does it mean for the teams and the Company, and how it has a positive impact on the Business.
The Rationale for Continuous Delivery by Dave FarleyBosnia Agile
The production of software is a complex, collaborative process that stretches our ability as human beings to cope with its demands.
Many people working in software development spend their careers without seeing what good really looks like.
Our history is littered with inefficient processes creating poor quality output, too late to capitalise on the expected business value. How have we got into this state? How do we get past it? What does good really look like?
Continuous Delivery changes the economics of software development for some of the biggest companies in the world, whatever the nature of their software development, find out how and why.
What’s a Design Sprint and Why Does it Matter? by Elvis PivićBosnia Agile
We all want to believe we’re just about to reach it — our eureka moment.
That moment when light breaks, clouds part, and all those torturous months of thinking, planning, re-thinking, and re-planning finally pay off in the form of the perfect solution to our problem.
Except that day never comes. And back to countless meetings, we go.
Perspiring towards perfection has a certain romantic appeal, but ultimately it robs us of the thing we want most: progress. This lecture is designed to give perfectionists in every form — product designers, marketers, business leaders, product, and project managers their first introduction to a better method for getting things done: the Design Sprint.
During this presentation, it will be explained:
* From thinking to doing: the origin of the Design Sprint
* What is the Design Sprint?
* Why the Design Sprint is the hero you need? -
* Sprints — what are they good for? - How exactly does the Design Sprint work?
Disciplined Agile: Past, present, and future. The path to true business agil...Bosnia Agile
What is Disciplined Agile? Where did it come from? Where is it going? How can it help me?
In your organization, you are very likely using a variety of approaches to deliver solutions to your stakeholders. You might be using traditional waterfall, agile, or hybrid approaches. If you are applying agile methods or frameworks you might be using Scrum, SAFe, Lean Kanban, or “roll your own” techniques. Regardless of what methods you are using, the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit can help you to be more effective. It is an agnostic, comprehensive library of strategies and practices, with practical advice for which ones work for in different contexts. Many organizations struggle to evolve an agile way of working (WoW) that makes sense for their unique situations. The good news is that you don't need to figure it out on your own. The DA tool kit leverages the experiences of thousands of teams who have already struggled through the very issues that our teams currently face. By referencing these strategies, you can accelerate your journey to project delivery success using a technique we call Guided Continuous Improvement (GCI).
This presentation explains the value of the Disciplined Agile tool kit and how to use it in practice with GCI across your entire organization, putting you on a path to true business agility.
Building a world-class work culture by Rešad ZačinaBosnia Agile
Every company has its own culture but just a few players stand out. Company Culture is not the office, snacks and perks but a very complex system of consistent behaviors. What is the magic recipe?
Scrum Turns 25 - Usage and the future by Dave WestBosnia Agile
On Oct 19th , 2020 Scrum turns 25 years old. During those 25 years Scrum has changed from a disruptor to mainstream with millions of people using its ideas in their daily lives. But what is the current state of Scrum and where it is going in the future? In this talk Dave West CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org shares current usage data and talks about the future. He describes how Scrum is being used in genetic research to manned space flight and how Scrum is evolving to embrace more and more complex problem scenarios.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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
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.
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Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
"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.
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
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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.
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
DevOps Transformation in Microsoft – Case Study by Ognjen Bajic and Ana Roje Ivancic
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DevOps Transformation
In Microsoft
Case Study
ANA ROJE IVANČIĆ, OGNJEN BAJIĆ
M I C R O S O F T M V P S F O R D E V E L O P E R T E C H N O L O G I E S
P R O F E S S I O N A L S C R U M T R A I N E R S ( P S T ) F O R S C R U M . O R G
A G I L I S T I T , C R O A T I A
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In Software Development for over 20 years, worked as Dev, PM, Test, RM, SM, PO…
Working with TFS/VSTS/VSO/Azure DevOps since 2005
Helping teams improve DevOps practices since 2005
Microsoft MVPs for Developer Technologies (ALM/DevOps)
Professional Scrum Trainers (PST) for Scrum.org since 2018
Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) and Professional Scrum Developer (PSD)
Speakers: Ana Roje Ivančić and Ognjen Bajić
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Azure DevOps Team
850 people
60+ feature teams
4 primary locations
3,500850
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Azure DevOps
https://azure.com/devops
Deliver value to your users
faster using proven agile tools
to plan, track, and discuss work
across your teams.
Azure Boards
Get unlimited, cloud-hosted
private Git repos and
collaborate to build better code
with pull requests and
advanced file management.
Azure Repos
Build, test, and deploy with CI/CD
that works with any language,
platform, and cloud. Connect to
GitHub or any other Git provider
and deploy continuously.
Azure Pipelines
Test and ship with confidence
using manual and exploratory
testing tools.
Azure Test Plans
Create, host, and share packages
with your team, and add artifacts
to your CI/CD pipelines with a
single click.
Azure Artifacts
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Azure DevOps is the toolchain of choice
for MS Engineering
DevOps in Microsoft
Data: Internal Microsoft engineering system activity, November 2018
https://aka.ms/DevOpsAtMicrosoftè
96,000
Engineers using
Azure DevOps
2m
Git commits per month
163,000Deployments per day
6.3m
Builds per month
500m
Test executions per day
500k
Work items updated
per day
5m
Work items viewed
per day
Satya Nadella
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Feature Teams 10-12 people
Cross disciplined
Self managing
Clear charter and goals
Own features in production
Own deployment of features
Fully responsible for quality
Physical team rooms
Intact for 12-18 months
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Sticky Note Exercise - Self Forming Teams
Employee choice,
not manager driven
Typically <20% change,
but 100%
get to make a choice
Cross-pollinate talent
and micro-culture
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Planning – Rolling Planning and Aligned Autonomy
Strategy
12 months
12
Quarter
4 sprints
4
Sprint
3 weeks
1
Semester
6 months
6
Teams are responsible for the detail:
HOW are we building it?
Are we building it with QUALITY?
Leadership is responsible for the big picture:
WHAT are we building?
WHY are we building?
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Product OKRs
Service OKRs Service OKRs Service OKRs Service OKRs Service OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Team
OKRs
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
Azure Boards Azure ReposAzure Pipelines Azure Test Plans Azure Artifacts
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1. per service
◦ Value delivered for each Objective with short video
◦ Value planned for the next sprint
2.
◦ Each team reviews with higher leadership their plans, progress, impediments
How Teams Stay In Sync?
Q3Q2Q1 Q4
3 weeks
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Source in a single git repo
All code flows to master
Engineers don’t merge code
they didn’t write
Frequent small check-ins
Everyone Works Out of Master
Master
Week 3Week 2Week 1
Sprint Previous Sprint Next
175 commits/day
into Master
Release: Current Sprint x
Release: Sprint Previous x
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„Bug Cap” to Keep Quality Under Control
If your bug count exceeds your bug cap, stop working on new
features until you’re back under the cap!
4 40x =10
Everyone follows a simple rule they call the “Bug Cap”:
# enginneers
in the team
# number of
bugs per
engineer
Bug Cap per
team
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A strategy adopted by their
teams to provide focus, and
assist with an interrupt culture
The team self-organizes each
sprint into two distinct sub-
teams: Features and Shield
Shielding Distractions: L-Team
F-Team
Works on commited
features (new work)
L-Team
Deals with all live-site
issues and interruptions
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Different rings serve different customer groups
Rings provide control over customer exposure to features & bugs
◦ No down time
◦ Fully automated
Safe Deployment - 6 Production Deployment Rings
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Production Telemetry
7 terabytes of data
collected daily
They monitor feature usage,
performance, exceptions,
logs
Goal: Discover and address
problems before end users
even become aware of them
Telemetry is decisive for
experimentation and
hypothesis verification
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Live site status is always the top priority
Transparent root cause analysis for every LSI
LSI fixes go into backlog (2 sprint rule)
Actionable alerts
On-call Designated Responsible Individual (DRI)
Customer Focused Availability model (SLA)
Health reports per service and per team
Live Site Culture
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DevOps Transformation
The Azure DevOps teams story so far
4-6 month milestones
Horizontal teams
Personal offices
Long planning cycles
PM, Dev, Test
Feature branches
20+ person teams
Secret roadmap
Bug debt accumulated
Deep organizational hierarchy
Success is a measure of install numbers
Features shipped once a year
3-week sprints
Vertical teams
Team rooms
Continual Planning & Learning
PM & Engineering
Everyone in master
8-12 person teams
Publicly shared roadmap
Debt paid as incurred
Flattened organization hierarchy
User satisfaction determines success
Features shipped every sprint
Before After
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Build the culture you want, and you’ll get the behavior you’re after
You cannot cheat shipping
Collecting telemetry to verify value delivered
DevOps Transformation In Microsoft - Takeaways
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