Lightning talk at the Agile Meetup. Discusses the idea that if you are introducing change you need to understand how the organisation got the way it is now, and address the underlying concerns and drivers, so as to make the chanegs stick.
Quality Starts with Requirements (Feb 2012, Patrick Martin)IIBA Rochester NY
Understanding the importance of requirements in delivering quality products and services.
If Quality means conformation to requirements and the requirements are in error, have we delivered quality? Defects in requirements are the hardest to find, prevent and repair as well as the most pervasive and severe.
Meet the speaker: Patrick Martin helps people make money and save money. He currently works for First Niagara Bank as VP Quality Assurance where his team is building a quality practice around business analysts. Patrick previously worked for TD Bank as VP QMO where his team saved the bank millions of dollars while improving the customer experience and reducing operational risks.
Patrick is also a recovering entrepreneur with many years of experience in start-up and turnaround of professional services businesses. He was a founding executive of FuGEN, Inc and former State Director of the Florida Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
Patrick received the prestigious Smithsonian Innovation Laureate in 1999 for his work on Internet investigative technologies. He also received distinction as a White House Innovation grantee in 1999 for his work on knowledge sharing technologies. Patrick received his Bachelor of Science in Technology Management from the University of Maryland, and he is an active board member of the Maine Technology Institute.
Challenges & Successes of Agile Implementation Webinar with BlackLine - XBOSoftXBOSoft
In this hour-long webinar, BlackLine's Director of Software Development Greg Burns and Scrum Master and Agile Coach Ron Ben Yosef discuss the company's agile conversion experience -- the challenges, successes, and benefits gained from implementation.
Quality Starts with Requirements (Feb 2012, Patrick Martin)IIBA Rochester NY
Understanding the importance of requirements in delivering quality products and services.
If Quality means conformation to requirements and the requirements are in error, have we delivered quality? Defects in requirements are the hardest to find, prevent and repair as well as the most pervasive and severe.
Meet the speaker: Patrick Martin helps people make money and save money. He currently works for First Niagara Bank as VP Quality Assurance where his team is building a quality practice around business analysts. Patrick previously worked for TD Bank as VP QMO where his team saved the bank millions of dollars while improving the customer experience and reducing operational risks.
Patrick is also a recovering entrepreneur with many years of experience in start-up and turnaround of professional services businesses. He was a founding executive of FuGEN, Inc and former State Director of the Florida Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
Patrick received the prestigious Smithsonian Innovation Laureate in 1999 for his work on Internet investigative technologies. He also received distinction as a White House Innovation grantee in 1999 for his work on knowledge sharing technologies. Patrick received his Bachelor of Science in Technology Management from the University of Maryland, and he is an active board member of the Maine Technology Institute.
Challenges & Successes of Agile Implementation Webinar with BlackLine - XBOSoftXBOSoft
In this hour-long webinar, BlackLine's Director of Software Development Greg Burns and Scrum Master and Agile Coach Ron Ben Yosef discuss the company's agile conversion experience -- the challenges, successes, and benefits gained from implementation.
Many resources describe how to accelerate performance of your development organization through adoption of agile methodologies, but very few cover testing in a practical manner. And those that do generally focus on technical details, leaving out how to build an agile testing culture while facing numerous adoption challenges. Leigh Ishikawa describes how an organization needs to rethink testing in the agile world. He begins by taking a holistic look at how different groups combine in an agile testing culture. Then Leigh dives into key components including messaging, concepts, metrics, and tools that can be implemented across different groups; how they are integral to one another; how various data from metrics across different teams should be interpreted; and what actions should be taken. Through real world examples from various companies, Leigh takes you through lessons he learned—from both success and failure.
Are You Making These 7 'Testing Metric' Mistakes? Webinar - Mark Bentsen, Phi...XBOSoft
Find out if you're making these common testing metric mistakes and what to do if you are. In this hour-long XBOSoft webinar, ARGO Data's Quality Assurance Manager will teach you how to improve your metrics and build better software testing and QA teams.
Technical Challenges In Offshore Software Development Jonathan Bardin
This is the presentation I gave at a conference organize by Technologic Arts Japan (June 2015). It illustrates the technical challenges we faced with Offshore software development between Japan and Vietnam and how Agile practice help us to address them.
دي الAgenda:
1. تحديات الrequirements
2. ازاي تفكر Agile في شغل الrequirements
3. دور Product Onwer
4. ازاي نكتب User Stories
5. يعني ايه BackLog Refinement
الhangout ده بيتعمل كل اسبوعين مع جروب agile بالعربي عشان نحاول نوصل المعلومة بشكل تفاعلي فيه مناقشات اكتر
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Agile.bel3araby/
الhost انا Mona Shokrof , بشتغل Agile coach and trainer في Agile Arena ده الaccount بتاعي علي linked in
https://www.linkedin.com/in/monashokrof
اللي حابب يسال اي حاجة
اللي بدات فكرة شرح الAgile بالعربي علي الblog بتاعها www.shokrof.com
Managing IT Projects - Onsite Offshore CoordinationMahesh Dedhia
In the Software industry, quite often development and testing jobs are outsourced and a small percentage of the team is placed at the client location to coordinate between client teams and offshore teams. This presentation talks about specific challenges faced when teams are geographically distributed and some of the best practices that have helped in my experiences as onsite coordinator as well as offshore project manager.
Jonathan Kohl - Is Agile Distracting You?TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2009 presentation on Is Agile Distracting You? by Jonathan Kohl. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Agile Australia Conference 2011 - Devops live accounts- continuous delivery_stNish Mahanty
Presentation at Agile Australia 2011 http://www.agileaustralia.com.au/2011/topics-day-one.html#liveaccounts-devops
Nish Mahanty - Software Delivery Manager, MYOB
» Lawrence Song - Technical Architect, MYOB
Live Accounts is an online accounting application. It was a 10 year-old legacy system with complex architecture and no test or build scripts. The manual deployment was quite complex, involving deploying one Java application and three DotNet applications to three windows servers.
Over the past six months, MYOB has progressed incrementally from manual build and deploy processes based on Perforce, to CI and semi-automated deployments (using Perforce, Hudson, Maven,) to fully automated delivery (using Go, Git, Rake). This talk summarises that journey, and explores the technical challenges and lessons-learned.
MYOB has measured the increase in number of deployments, decrease in deployment issues, and decrease in deployment time over the six months. Developers were working closely with Ops to understand the pain points and automated the deployment process as much as possible to make their lives easier.
This talk explains the business problem and how to begin the incremental, iterative, adaptive journey to Continuous Delivery for a complex legacy system, illustrated with data and technical tips.
Attendees will discover:
» The value argument for Continuous Delivery
» Clear steps on how to integrate DevOps and progress on the automation journey
» Insights into a common set of tools, with the opportunity for a technical in-depth pros and cons discussion
Why take a Continuous Delivery approach in your organisatiionNish Mahanty
Two case studies on teams that had adopted Continuous Delivery by pulling from a toolkit of Agile, Kanban, and Lean techniques.
These teams raised customer NPS, improved team engagement, and increased their throughput.
Presented at "Innovating IT Service Conference 2014"
http://itsframeworks.com/
Many resources describe how to accelerate performance of your development organization through adoption of agile methodologies, but very few cover testing in a practical manner. And those that do generally focus on technical details, leaving out how to build an agile testing culture while facing numerous adoption challenges. Leigh Ishikawa describes how an organization needs to rethink testing in the agile world. He begins by taking a holistic look at how different groups combine in an agile testing culture. Then Leigh dives into key components including messaging, concepts, metrics, and tools that can be implemented across different groups; how they are integral to one another; how various data from metrics across different teams should be interpreted; and what actions should be taken. Through real world examples from various companies, Leigh takes you through lessons he learned—from both success and failure.
Are You Making These 7 'Testing Metric' Mistakes? Webinar - Mark Bentsen, Phi...XBOSoft
Find out if you're making these common testing metric mistakes and what to do if you are. In this hour-long XBOSoft webinar, ARGO Data's Quality Assurance Manager will teach you how to improve your metrics and build better software testing and QA teams.
Technical Challenges In Offshore Software Development Jonathan Bardin
This is the presentation I gave at a conference organize by Technologic Arts Japan (June 2015). It illustrates the technical challenges we faced with Offshore software development between Japan and Vietnam and how Agile practice help us to address them.
دي الAgenda:
1. تحديات الrequirements
2. ازاي تفكر Agile في شغل الrequirements
3. دور Product Onwer
4. ازاي نكتب User Stories
5. يعني ايه BackLog Refinement
الhangout ده بيتعمل كل اسبوعين مع جروب agile بالعربي عشان نحاول نوصل المعلومة بشكل تفاعلي فيه مناقشات اكتر
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Agile.bel3araby/
الhost انا Mona Shokrof , بشتغل Agile coach and trainer في Agile Arena ده الaccount بتاعي علي linked in
https://www.linkedin.com/in/monashokrof
اللي حابب يسال اي حاجة
اللي بدات فكرة شرح الAgile بالعربي علي الblog بتاعها www.shokrof.com
Managing IT Projects - Onsite Offshore CoordinationMahesh Dedhia
In the Software industry, quite often development and testing jobs are outsourced and a small percentage of the team is placed at the client location to coordinate between client teams and offshore teams. This presentation talks about specific challenges faced when teams are geographically distributed and some of the best practices that have helped in my experiences as onsite coordinator as well as offshore project manager.
Jonathan Kohl - Is Agile Distracting You?TEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2009 presentation on Is Agile Distracting You? by Jonathan Kohl. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/
Agile Australia Conference 2011 - Devops live accounts- continuous delivery_stNish Mahanty
Presentation at Agile Australia 2011 http://www.agileaustralia.com.au/2011/topics-day-one.html#liveaccounts-devops
Nish Mahanty - Software Delivery Manager, MYOB
» Lawrence Song - Technical Architect, MYOB
Live Accounts is an online accounting application. It was a 10 year-old legacy system with complex architecture and no test or build scripts. The manual deployment was quite complex, involving deploying one Java application and three DotNet applications to three windows servers.
Over the past six months, MYOB has progressed incrementally from manual build and deploy processes based on Perforce, to CI and semi-automated deployments (using Perforce, Hudson, Maven,) to fully automated delivery (using Go, Git, Rake). This talk summarises that journey, and explores the technical challenges and lessons-learned.
MYOB has measured the increase in number of deployments, decrease in deployment issues, and decrease in deployment time over the six months. Developers were working closely with Ops to understand the pain points and automated the deployment process as much as possible to make their lives easier.
This talk explains the business problem and how to begin the incremental, iterative, adaptive journey to Continuous Delivery for a complex legacy system, illustrated with data and technical tips.
Attendees will discover:
» The value argument for Continuous Delivery
» Clear steps on how to integrate DevOps and progress on the automation journey
» Insights into a common set of tools, with the opportunity for a technical in-depth pros and cons discussion
Why take a Continuous Delivery approach in your organisatiionNish Mahanty
Two case studies on teams that had adopted Continuous Delivery by pulling from a toolkit of Agile, Kanban, and Lean techniques.
These teams raised customer NPS, improved team engagement, and increased their throughput.
Presented at "Innovating IT Service Conference 2014"
http://itsframeworks.com/
Top 10 dos and donts in agile offshoringOve Holmberg
Our network have done surveys with company's doing Agile off-shoring today in Sweden. We have compiled a list over pitfalls and good habits you must take into consideration when off-shoring software development from Sweden.
Harnessing Agile Development In Distributed Environment Dusan K PartDusan Kocurek
Harnessing the Power of Agile Development in a Distributed Environment
Part II
Webminar by SD Times, Dave West (Forrester) and Dusan Kocurek.
This presentation covers second part.
Distributed Development is becoming more popular nowadays. Developers with different locations, time zones, languages and cultures collaborate to achieve a single goal. In this presentation, I share some lessons learned from a extremely distributed project so people can achieve success in such a challenging environment like this.
Presentation from First Conference http://www.1stconf.com/
Targeted at Agile"beginners" this talk presented a lightweight set of guidelines for planning and executing an agile transformation.
The guidelines were illustrated with a case study from a recent agile adoption program, and highlighted the process, what worked well, what didn't work at all, and how to recover from set backs.
The presentation covered analysing the problem, change models, how to get started, useful metrics, and tips for stakeholder management.
The case study focussed on presenting real situations, with complex problems.
Agile adoption tales from the coalfaceNish Mahanty
This talk discusses how to fail with an Agile change transformation, and lays out some practical tips for successfully adopting agile software delivery processes within your organisation. Presented at Telstra, Superpartners, and several Meetups.
'Stakeholder Engagement Shortcuts': Ilan Goldstein @ Colombo Agile Conference...ColomboCampsCommunity
Change is difficult, and the reality is that in many organisations, an agile adoption means considerable change. Kickstarting a new initiative such as Scrum requires support from your senior stakeholders. This presentation outlines some powerful shortcuts to help engage with your stakeholder community to ensure that Scrum is given the best opportunity to flourish!
Agile in the martix @RUAG Defence-Agile Prozesse in UnternehmenChristian Délez
Doing agile software product development in a typical Swiss matrix organisation raise some challenging issues. There are conflicts with previous style of product development, different opinions, trust, fear, questions, opportunities, transparency. This talk presents the state of the agile transition in a Swiss matrix organisation after 4 years, the key issues and benefits, the new management steering possibilities, the KPI and transparency model. It is an example from practice.
The controversy of disempowering your bosses Hansoft AB
Challenges to gain management buy-in for implementation of agile and how to overcome them.
Speech by Senior Productivity Expert Ebba Kraemer at Scrum Gathering in Las Vegas May 2013
Testaus 2014: Paul Gerrard - The Changing Role of Testers'Tieturi Oy
Testausala on suuressa murroksessa. Muutos heijastuu testaajien työhön siten, että testaajan tulee miettiä entistä luovemmin suhtautumistaan omaan työhönsä. Sen sijaan että kehittäjät ja testaajat rajoittavat työskentelynsä yhteen tuotantotapaan, kuten vaikkapa yhteen tiettyyn Agile-viitekehykseen, heidän tulee itse osoittaa ketteryyttä valitsemalla ja yhdistelemällä luovasti erilaisia tuotantotapoja tilanteen vaatimalla tavalla.
Testaus 2014 -seminaari: Paul Gerrard. The Changing Role of Testers’.Tieturi Oy
Testausala on suuressa murroksessa. Sen sijaan että kehittäjät ja testaajat käyttävät kaikissa tilanteissa tiettyä tuotantotapaa, kuten vaikkapa Agilea, tulee ammattilaisen itse osoittaa ketteryyttä valitsemalla ja yhdistelemällä luovasti erilaisia tuotantotapoja tilanteen mukaan.
Sprint Reviews that Attract, Engage, and Enlighten StakeholdersTechWell
Are you suffering from chronic disinterest in what your team is delivering? Are your product owners unavailable or distracted? Are your sprint reviews ho-hum experiences with low attendance? If you answered Yes to any of these questions, your agile teams are in trouble-and you need to attend this session. Experienced agile coach Bob Galen explores real-world patterns for how to increase the interest in-and the energy and value of-your sprint reviews. First, Bob explains how to prepare properly, the keys to dry runs, and the role of a Master of Ceremonies. Then he examines ways to orchestrate pro-active reviews that include the whole team and engage your audience when demonstrating "working software." Next Bob discusses how to perform a review follow-up and gather feedback for high-impact improvements. Finally, Bob wraps up by exploring ways to make sprint reviews a centerpiece of your agile adoption and transformation.
Presenting this set of slides with name - Operational Readiness Review Powerpoint Presentation Slides. Our topic specific Operational Readiness Review Powerpoint Presentation Slides deck contains nineteen slides to formulate the topic with a sound understanding. This PPT deck is what you can bank upon. With diverse and professional slides at your side, worry the least for a powerpack presentation. A range of editable and ready to use slides with all sorts of relevant charts and graphs, overviews, topics subtopics templates, and analysis templates makes it all the more worth. This deck displays creative and professional looking slides of all sorts. Whether you are a member of an assigned team or a designated official on the look out for impacting slides, it caters to every professional field.
Lean Development Practices for Enterprise AgileTechWell
Enterprise agile initiatives require strategic, portfolio, product, and team perspectives at all levels. Alan Shalloway has found that lean software development principles help integrate all of these perspectives into a cohesive, actionable whole. With a combination of lean science, lean management, lean team, and lean learning methods, Alan shows how your organization can prepare for enterprise agility. Lean science focuses on the “laws” present in all software development projects. Lean management empowers executives to contribute to the context within which teams can flourish. Lean team methods are actualized in Kanban approaches. Lean learning empowers everyone in the organization to improve his skills and practices. Alan shows how you can make these four perspectives work together so that enterprise software development teams build the right software in the right way and continue to improve their practices along the way.
Project Controls Expo, Oct 2012 - Planning – How to Succeed Hints and Tips fr...Project Controls Expo
Agenda
• Some Initial Thoughts
• Why Bother
• Planning – How is it Done?
• Integrated Planning – Project Control
• What is this Planning thing really about
• It’s all about Dates isn’t it?
• So what is Planning really about?
• Planning Structure
• Understand the Industry
• Requirements
• Assumptions
• Basic Understanding
• Delivery Responsibility
• Let’s Get Started
• A few shouldn’ts
• Planning – Status
• Who Owns the Plan?
• Think Laterally
• Keep the Faith
• Belief and Passion
• Any Questions.
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By Paul Holway.
Regardless of how you feel about felines, dead cats stink. What also stinks is what is happening to agile development practices. What started as a movement to increase quality and usefulness of code written, has been professionalized into certificates and ceremonies that are only marginally helping the process. Instead of blaming political and organizational forces, this humorous and irreverent talk focuses on what team members can do to overcome these corporate obstacles and to get to the spirit of agile through a focus on architectural innovation and personal improvement. Attendees should expect to laugh, to learn from the experience of implementing dozens of real world enterprise agile teams, and to come out with proven new techniques to try to bring more satisfaction to how they do their work and to bring the focus of agile back to software development.
Learn the basics of the agile way-of-life that has helped many companies realize their potential in the market. The agile secret sauce was once a thing that was only enjoyed by software organizations on the East and West coasts, but is now invading Indianapolis -- increasing productivity, making teams empowered (and happier!), and helping managers focus less on the taskmaster role and more on the important stuff.
From Surviving to Thriving - Leveraging People, Process and Systems to Achiev...Steelwedge
- Hear the S&OP success story of Contech Engineered Solutions, a leading national civil engineering solutions provider. Contech has achieved significant growth with an agile S&OP process and platform
- Discover how the Contech team collaborates through S&OP technology and processes to achieve a holistic view of demand, supply and inventory, and drive better decision-making—all of which has led to a 40% decrease in inventory and a 10% improvement in on-time customer service
- Learn about the sales and operations planning (S&OP) challenges most companies face and how to overcome them to drive lasting and extensive value
Agile Cafe Boulder - Panelist and keynote slidesCloud Elements
Agile Cafe, 2/3 in Boulder, CO. Presentations from Adam Woods at StoneRiver, Bill Holst at Colorado Springs Utilities and keynote by Jean Tabaka at Rally Software.
Get Your Product to Market with Less: Paradigms for InnovationBlake Stancik
Product Creation Studio's VP of Operations, Blake Stancik, presented "Get Your Product to Market with Less: Paradigms for Innovation" at MD&M West 2017. In this talk, Blake identifies areas of cost in the development cycle, touches on why team is important, explores direct design transfer concepts and more.
Similar to Eastern Melbourne Agile Meetup - Challenge Constraints (20)
CTO School Melbourne 2017 - Getting Started at a StartupNish Mahanty
Start ups have some interesting challenges and conversely some exciting opportunities.
They have a limited runway of cash – this drives an intense focus on delivering value (before the money runs out)
They have no existing culture or processes – there is nothing to undo as they create a new culture
There is no existing code to build upon - there’s no legacy code to deal with, and you produce applications that match what you need to do
There is no set of commonly understood processes – you get to adopt whatever works well and that fits your needs.
This case study talks about the last 9 months of our start-up where we went from “no team, and limited functionality” – to launching a successful and thriving business backed by completely custom trading platform and fulfilment engine.
LAST Conference - The Mickey Mouse model of leadership for software delivery ...Nish Mahanty
Leading an agile team can be rewarding and also challenging. It is an opportunity to apply your leadership and vision, and to introduce those the ideas and behaviours that are important to you. One of the main benefits is the opportunity to grow and develop the careers of your teams, and to have an impact wider than your own individual technical skills.
It is also a challenge. Often the skills that got you the promotion, or new job, aren't the ones you need to be successful in the new role. If you are inheriting an existing team, they usually have work in-flight so it’s important to be up to speed with what the team is doing, and whether they are on track for meeting their (now your) objectives. Every team, company, and situation is different, with unique challenges so it is important that you quickly identify where to focus your energies.
I'll outline a framework (with themes and a checklist) for assessing the situation, and constructing a 30 day plan to set yourself, and the team, up for success:
Theme 1: Build the things right (The technical aspects of delivering quality solutions)
Theme 2. Build the right thing (validating the planned deliverables against the desired business outcomes)
Theme 3. Build the right Team (building a resilient, highly engaged, highly skilled team, who work well together and who can efficiently adjust to unforseen changes, whilst still delivering the outcomes)
I believe that a successful agile team achieves a conscious balance between these themes. If they aren't focussed on all three, then they are unlikely to be as successful as they could be.
Against these three themes I'll present and discuss a 6 point checklist that will help the new leader develop a 30 day plan:
1. Business objectives and environment – assess whether the team is doing productive work that aligns with the business needs.
2. Team – build a highly engaged, resilient team that understand their contribution to the larger business outcomes
3. Metrics –continually visualise progress against your goals
4. Stakeholders – build a strong relationship, and clear lines of communication
5. Continual improvement – no team should stand still and no team has reached perfection, so continuously analyse performance and focus on getting better.
6. Budget – understand the financial commitment to help plan activities and team dynamics
The aim of the talk is to be educational, offering up a set of ideas, supported with real-world examples, that the attendees can adopt in their own organisations, to help them and their teams become more successful.
Agile Australia Conference 2012 - Building High Performing Teams - to deliver...Nish Mahanty
Presentation that I gave at Agile Australia 2012 in Melbourne, and at Agile Encore 2012 in Auckland.
Agile, Lean, Kanban, DevOps, Continuous Delivery! Fundamentally, all these methodologies are predicated on effective system and culture change. They require people and teams to work together to negotiate outcomes, remove inefficiencies, and deliver great business outcomes.
This talk focusses on the practicalities of building a high-performing team that can execute within a chosen methodology, and deliver awesome business outcomes. It includes practical tips on motivation, hiring, and team building across distributed teams, and gives real life examples of successes (and failures).
Discover:
» A clear context for why this is a precursor for the successful adoption of Agile
» A clear framework for building high performing teams
» Practical tips for what to do when things go wrong
» How to lead high performing Distributed teams
» Real life examples of what worked and what doesn't
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
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/
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
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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
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.
24. I’ve been there…
Be careful that you don’t give on too many of the constraints
This is insidious, because the constraints may sound reasonable
to their owners
Focus on addressing the intent of the constraint
32. What about Scrum?
• Scrum for common naming
• XP for technical techniques
• Lean for reducing waste
33. Align KRAs to match the goals
• Reduce Sev 1s in production
• Improve Customer satisfaction score
34. What about Offshore Agile
• Increase comms (video etc)
• Visit often – put a face to the voice
• Rotate people onshore-offshore
• Shared information radiators (Mingle)
• Adjust your expectations
37. Insist on Heavy Documentation
Don’t Empower the teams
Demand tight predictability
Don’t make your resources available
Lip service, but no real support
Promote the blame culture
Punish Failure
TW get a tagged with the “Zealot” tag because the are willing to challenge the existing constraints.
TW get a tagged with the “Zealot” tag because the are willing to challenge the existing constraints.
Use the forums, but focus on intent and work on reducing delays.
A lot of change starts “Bottom up” as skunk works. For it to survive and grow past a certain size you MUST have a strong sponsor. You are talking about Organisational change. Beware the “hygiene” argument
A lot of change starts “Bottom up” as skunk works. For it to survive and grow past a certain size you MUST have a strong sponsor. You are talking about Organisational change. Beware the “hygiene” argument
Don’t be afraid of the answer.
A lot of change starts “Bottom up” as skunk works. For it to survive and grow past a certain size you MUST have a strong sponsor. You are talking about Organisational change. Beware the “hygiene” argument
A lot of change starts “Bottom up” as skunk works. For it to survive and grow past a certain size you MUST have a strong sponsor. You are talking about Organisational change. Beware the “hygiene” argument
A lot of change starts “Bottom up” as skunk works. For it to survive and grow past a certain size you MUST have a strong sponsor. You are talking about Organisational change. Beware the “hygiene” argument
A lot of change starts “Bottom up” as skunk works. For it to survive and grow past a certain size you MUST have a strong sponsor. You are talking about Organisational change. Beware the “hygiene” argument
Architecture, IT Ops, PMO, CPO etcIT Ops – Process and Documentation driven. How does ITIL fit with Agile,. I manage my SLAs by restricting changes to productionArchitecture- BUFD vs Emergent Design, Fear of loss of control, loss of value,