Scrum and Patterns share a heritage that goes back centuries. The common foundations of the two — local adaptation, incremental growth, focus on "value," and the central human element — make patterns a particularly viable vehicle for rolling out Scrum. These notes give a short definitive summary of patterns (by example) and pattern languages. Next, they introduce basic Scrum patterns that the Scrum PLoP® effort has gathered over the past five years. After that we look at the "Scrum secrets" — Scrum fundamentals that most practitioners either aren't aware of or which usually go unheeded. Patterns help tease out the tradeoffs ("forces") for these forms in a way that makes them memorable. Last, we give a glimpse of how to use these patterns as a powerful way to evolve your own Scrum implementation to excellence.
When scaling Agile, an effective Scrum of Scrums is fundamental to success. This presentation covers common patterns for Scrum of Scrums, with varied purpose and format. Successful practices, learned experience, potential anti-patterns, and alternatives to Scrum of Scrums are included.
Presented at Agile New England as an ANE 101 session on 4 February 2021.
2013 Scrum Gathering Keynote: Buy or build — where did your agile come from?James Coplien
講演概要: デンマークには「アジリティ」という、訓練された犬によって行われるスポーツがある。その訓練と血統に関する研究論文には、アジャイルソフトウェア開発と似通った点がいくつかある。「日々行われる優れた実践行動(プラクティス)は、トレーナーによって行われているというよりも、チームとして行われている」。現在のアジャイル普及への道は、アジャイルの理念(イデオロギー)を習得したことを認定することに重きが置かれていたり、いくつかの理念をより上位の理念の傘の下にまとめただけで、緊急に軌道修正が必要だ。本講演では、(トヨタの)カイゼンに根ざしたアプローチで、スクラムや一般的なプロセス改善について考えていく。そして、アジャイルの認定において事実や知識をベースとした計測方法から、よりアジャイルな認定方法に移行するとはどういうことかを説明する。そして最後に、ゲームを使った内観的かつ実験的な取り組みについて紹介する。そして、認定やテスト重視のアジャイルに対する事実と知識をベースにした学習方法から、ゲームをベースとした内観的かつ試行的な取り組みへの移行についても紹介する。
"Agility" in Danish is a performance sport done by trained dogs. While training and pedigree papers have certainly found a place in agile's software namesake, good agile practice should be more in the hands of the Team than the Trainer. The current agile journey that focuses on certification around some ideology, or on aligning several ideologies under an uber-ideological umbrella, urgently needs a mid-course correction. This keynote renews the vision of a Kaizen-based approach to Scrum in particular and process improvement in general, and a shift in focus from what is a facts-and-knowledge-based approach to agile based on certification and scored surveys to an introspective and experiential approach based on games.
Scrum and Patterns share a heritage that goes back centuries. The common foundations of the two — local adaptation, incremental growth, focus on "value," and the central human element — make patterns a particularly viable vehicle for rolling out Scrum. These notes give a short definitive summary of patterns (by example) and pattern languages. Next, they introduce basic Scrum patterns that the Scrum PLoP® effort has gathered over the past five years. After that we look at the "Scrum secrets" — Scrum fundamentals that most practitioners either aren't aware of or which usually go unheeded. Patterns help tease out the tradeoffs ("forces") for these forms in a way that makes them memorable. Last, we give a glimpse of how to use these patterns as a powerful way to evolve your own Scrum implementation to excellence.
When scaling Agile, an effective Scrum of Scrums is fundamental to success. This presentation covers common patterns for Scrum of Scrums, with varied purpose and format. Successful practices, learned experience, potential anti-patterns, and alternatives to Scrum of Scrums are included.
Presented at Agile New England as an ANE 101 session on 4 February 2021.
2013 Scrum Gathering Keynote: Buy or build — where did your agile come from?James Coplien
講演概要: デンマークには「アジリティ」という、訓練された犬によって行われるスポーツがある。その訓練と血統に関する研究論文には、アジャイルソフトウェア開発と似通った点がいくつかある。「日々行われる優れた実践行動(プラクティス)は、トレーナーによって行われているというよりも、チームとして行われている」。現在のアジャイル普及への道は、アジャイルの理念(イデオロギー)を習得したことを認定することに重きが置かれていたり、いくつかの理念をより上位の理念の傘の下にまとめただけで、緊急に軌道修正が必要だ。本講演では、(トヨタの)カイゼンに根ざしたアプローチで、スクラムや一般的なプロセス改善について考えていく。そして、アジャイルの認定において事実や知識をベースとした計測方法から、よりアジャイルな認定方法に移行するとはどういうことかを説明する。そして最後に、ゲームを使った内観的かつ実験的な取り組みについて紹介する。そして、認定やテスト重視のアジャイルに対する事実と知識をベースにした学習方法から、ゲームをベースとした内観的かつ試行的な取り組みへの移行についても紹介する。
"Agility" in Danish is a performance sport done by trained dogs. While training and pedigree papers have certainly found a place in agile's software namesake, good agile practice should be more in the hands of the Team than the Trainer. The current agile journey that focuses on certification around some ideology, or on aligning several ideologies under an uber-ideological umbrella, urgently needs a mid-course correction. This keynote renews the vision of a Kaizen-based approach to Scrum in particular and process improvement in general, and a shift in focus from what is a facts-and-knowledge-based approach to agile based on certification and scored surveys to an introspective and experiential approach based on games.
This presentation goes into details about impediments, how to identify them, how to create a strategy for, escalate, and ultimately - if not removing them entirely - moving the needle to improve the situation. Apologies for the outdated styling - it's on my backlog to improve it!
This session was given at the Agile Practitioners - IL 4th group meeting (November 2011).
In this talk i discussed how to apply Agile inside specific teams in a bigger waterfall organization, without the need to completely change it.
DevOps Kaizen: Practical Steps to Start & Sustain an Organization’s Transform...Rundeck
Keynote Presentation by Damon Edwards at JAX DevOps London, April 4, 2017.
We all love the aspirational DevOps talks about companies achieving blistering speed and dazzling nimbleness. But improving your own organization’s performance – from where they are now to performance levels equal to the industry leaders – seems like a very long and difficult road. What is missing in most organizations? A repeatable system that empowers teams to find and fix their own problems.
This is a prescriptive talk about empowering and transforming organizations using a methodical — and totally reasonable – Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) approach. We’ll look at ways of combining known techniques like value stream mapping, Lean waste analysis, and improvement kata in order to fix organizational, process, and tooling problems. This talk isn’t about mythical silver bullets or vague philosophies. This talk is about taking a fresh look at proven Lean techniques that already work in high-performing IT organizations
See a Demo of Rundeck Enterprise :
https://www.rundeck.com/see-demo
--or--
Download Rundeck Open Source here:
https://rundeck.com/open-source
Connect:
Stack Overflow community: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rundeck
Github: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck/issues
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rundeck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RundeckInc/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com › company › rundeck-inc
Collaboration Through Conflict - SFAA 2013Mark Kilby
Session at South FL's first agile conference where we talked about the 5 sources of conflict and various tools to help your team navigate it for better collaboration
Balancing the tension between Lean and AgileJames Coplien
Many people equate Lean and agile or claim that one is a subset of the other. In fact, they have almost opposite emphases: thinking versus doing; teams versus individuals; planning versus reacting; and many more. This talk will help you clarify the distinction in a way that will help you focus soberly on how to improve your environment, team, product and process, by going beyond the buzzwords to the fundamental building blocks.
People say they are doing Scrum, but in fact "We are doing Scrum, but...." And the Butts are not pretty. That is, when they move away from Scrum, almost always it is less effective. Here is the ScrumButt Test, to help.
Beginning the Kanban journey at an Enterprise IT - Case study - Pelephone AgileSparks
Beginning the Kanban journey at an Enterprise IT - Case study - Pelephone
By Hanan Alexander @ AgileIL12
http://agilesparks.com/KanbanPelephone-HananAlexander
Does this FizzGood? Improve velocity, predictability & agility by asking a si...Jon Terry
LeanKit's founding team had a strong Lean-Agile background from previous careers. So, in the early days of the company, we just instinctively did things in a Lean way with as few formal processes as any startup. But, like any growing company, we eventually did have to start clearly defining how we do things. And like anyone, we were tempted to become more bureaucratic - with lots of scheduling, coordination, meetings and estimates.
Instead, we developed our FSGD (Frequent Small Good Decoupled) approach. This LeanKit way of working has provided our teams with a simple yardstick for making effective decisions without a lot of cross team scheduling and coordination. It has simplified abstract Agile concepts into something everyone easily understands and cheerfully applies on a daily basis.
FSGD isn't a replacement for Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc. We strongly believe in and spend lots of time teaching our teams about the Kanban Method as well as standard Lean and Agile principles, tools, and techniques. But FSGD distills what we think are the key decision making elements of those methods into something everyone can remember.
We apply this model to all of our teams: design, development, testing, operations, sales, marketing, finance, HR. Indeed, we believe that applying it as broadly as possible makes it work most effectively.
Indeed, that's part of why the model doesn't reference software directly at all. It's meant to be generally applicable. One sub-concept included in the slides TLDR (Tested, Logged, Documented, Reviewed) is more specific to the technology context.
We have seen significant improvements in our delivery speed across multiple teams since rolling out the FSGD approach. We want to help other people gain the same benefits.
Bio:
Jon Terry is co-Chief Executive Officer of LeanKit. Before LeanKit, Jon held a number of senior IT positions with hospital-giant HCA and its logistics subsidiary, HealthTrust Purchasing Group. He was among those responsible for launching HCA’s adoption of Lean/Agile methods.
Jon earned his Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and his Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is a Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Master, a Kanban Coaching Professional, is certified in the Lean Construction Institute’s Last Planner Method, and trained in the SAFe Lean Systems Engineering method.
An overview of IT challenges and how Perficient China uses agile frameworks, methodologies, and practices to address these challenges and consistently deliver valued results to our clients.
From Chaos to Confidence: DevOps at LeanKitJon Terry
As a company, LeanKit have believed in Lean, Kanban, Agile, DevOps since our founding. We've alway talked about how important these ideas are - in the community and inside our company.
But that doesn't mean that doing those things in practice has been easy. We're a very fast growing startup in a very competitive market space. We've tripled in size in less than a year and nearly came apart at the seams at times.
In fact, in the fall of 2015, our technology team were having a very hard team. We were out of synch with our sales & marketing partners and facing a lot of internal conflict.
But we came together as a team and worked hard to implement a well coordinated system of values, team structure, cadences, and standard practices. We're now in a much better place as a team and generating much better results for our company.
There are no one-size-fits-all answers for companies. I can't promise that if you copy LeanKit you'll succeed. But we do think we have some interesting lessons learned to share and that you just might be able to pick up some ideas that you can take back to your company.
Bio:
Jon Terry is co-Chief Executive Officer of LeanKit. Before LeanKit, Jon held a number of senior IT positions with hospital-giant HCA and its logistics subsidiary, HealthTrust Purchasing Group. He was among those responsible for launching HCA’s adoption of Lean/Agile methods.
Jon earned his Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and his Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is a Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Master, a Kanban Coaching Professional, is certified in the Lean Construction Institute’s Last Planner Method, and trained in the SAFe Lean Systems Engineering method.
Release wednesdays and the agile release train uploadChris Smith
This presentation describes why and how our development teams sustain a deliberate, weekly release cadence and use a train metaphor to drive planning. It describes the significant benefits realized by teams using this approach to deliver both greenfield and legacy software products.
Building Lean Products with Distributed Agile Teams - Igor Moochnick at Produ...ProductCamp Boston
ProductCamp Boston, April 2011 ****
Tips and tricks for management distributed teams via agile practices. How to establish agile environment? Which one to choose? How to sell it to the organization? *****
Igor has a lot of experience in running agile distributed teams. Agile coach and certified trainer.
General introduction to agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. Also covers what situations Agile is best at, what situations Agile doesn't help with, and what an Agile team should look like. This deck is a general intro to Agile for OpenSource Connections clients.
This presentation goes into details about impediments, how to identify them, how to create a strategy for, escalate, and ultimately - if not removing them entirely - moving the needle to improve the situation. Apologies for the outdated styling - it's on my backlog to improve it!
This session was given at the Agile Practitioners - IL 4th group meeting (November 2011).
In this talk i discussed how to apply Agile inside specific teams in a bigger waterfall organization, without the need to completely change it.
DevOps Kaizen: Practical Steps to Start & Sustain an Organization’s Transform...Rundeck
Keynote Presentation by Damon Edwards at JAX DevOps London, April 4, 2017.
We all love the aspirational DevOps talks about companies achieving blistering speed and dazzling nimbleness. But improving your own organization’s performance – from where they are now to performance levels equal to the industry leaders – seems like a very long and difficult road. What is missing in most organizations? A repeatable system that empowers teams to find and fix their own problems.
This is a prescriptive talk about empowering and transforming organizations using a methodical — and totally reasonable – Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) approach. We’ll look at ways of combining known techniques like value stream mapping, Lean waste analysis, and improvement kata in order to fix organizational, process, and tooling problems. This talk isn’t about mythical silver bullets or vague philosophies. This talk is about taking a fresh look at proven Lean techniques that already work in high-performing IT organizations
See a Demo of Rundeck Enterprise :
https://www.rundeck.com/see-demo
--or--
Download Rundeck Open Source here:
https://rundeck.com/open-source
Connect:
Stack Overflow community: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rundeck
Github: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck/issues
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rundeck
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RundeckInc/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com › company › rundeck-inc
Collaboration Through Conflict - SFAA 2013Mark Kilby
Session at South FL's first agile conference where we talked about the 5 sources of conflict and various tools to help your team navigate it for better collaboration
Balancing the tension between Lean and AgileJames Coplien
Many people equate Lean and agile or claim that one is a subset of the other. In fact, they have almost opposite emphases: thinking versus doing; teams versus individuals; planning versus reacting; and many more. This talk will help you clarify the distinction in a way that will help you focus soberly on how to improve your environment, team, product and process, by going beyond the buzzwords to the fundamental building blocks.
People say they are doing Scrum, but in fact "We are doing Scrum, but...." And the Butts are not pretty. That is, when they move away from Scrum, almost always it is less effective. Here is the ScrumButt Test, to help.
Beginning the Kanban journey at an Enterprise IT - Case study - Pelephone AgileSparks
Beginning the Kanban journey at an Enterprise IT - Case study - Pelephone
By Hanan Alexander @ AgileIL12
http://agilesparks.com/KanbanPelephone-HananAlexander
Does this FizzGood? Improve velocity, predictability & agility by asking a si...Jon Terry
LeanKit's founding team had a strong Lean-Agile background from previous careers. So, in the early days of the company, we just instinctively did things in a Lean way with as few formal processes as any startup. But, like any growing company, we eventually did have to start clearly defining how we do things. And like anyone, we were tempted to become more bureaucratic - with lots of scheduling, coordination, meetings and estimates.
Instead, we developed our FSGD (Frequent Small Good Decoupled) approach. This LeanKit way of working has provided our teams with a simple yardstick for making effective decisions without a lot of cross team scheduling and coordination. It has simplified abstract Agile concepts into something everyone easily understands and cheerfully applies on a daily basis.
FSGD isn't a replacement for Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc. We strongly believe in and spend lots of time teaching our teams about the Kanban Method as well as standard Lean and Agile principles, tools, and techniques. But FSGD distills what we think are the key decision making elements of those methods into something everyone can remember.
We apply this model to all of our teams: design, development, testing, operations, sales, marketing, finance, HR. Indeed, we believe that applying it as broadly as possible makes it work most effectively.
Indeed, that's part of why the model doesn't reference software directly at all. It's meant to be generally applicable. One sub-concept included in the slides TLDR (Tested, Logged, Documented, Reviewed) is more specific to the technology context.
We have seen significant improvements in our delivery speed across multiple teams since rolling out the FSGD approach. We want to help other people gain the same benefits.
Bio:
Jon Terry is co-Chief Executive Officer of LeanKit. Before LeanKit, Jon held a number of senior IT positions with hospital-giant HCA and its logistics subsidiary, HealthTrust Purchasing Group. He was among those responsible for launching HCA’s adoption of Lean/Agile methods.
Jon earned his Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and his Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is a Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Master, a Kanban Coaching Professional, is certified in the Lean Construction Institute’s Last Planner Method, and trained in the SAFe Lean Systems Engineering method.
An overview of IT challenges and how Perficient China uses agile frameworks, methodologies, and practices to address these challenges and consistently deliver valued results to our clients.
From Chaos to Confidence: DevOps at LeanKitJon Terry
As a company, LeanKit have believed in Lean, Kanban, Agile, DevOps since our founding. We've alway talked about how important these ideas are - in the community and inside our company.
But that doesn't mean that doing those things in practice has been easy. We're a very fast growing startup in a very competitive market space. We've tripled in size in less than a year and nearly came apart at the seams at times.
In fact, in the fall of 2015, our technology team were having a very hard team. We were out of synch with our sales & marketing partners and facing a lot of internal conflict.
But we came together as a team and worked hard to implement a well coordinated system of values, team structure, cadences, and standard practices. We're now in a much better place as a team and generating much better results for our company.
There are no one-size-fits-all answers for companies. I can't promise that if you copy LeanKit you'll succeed. But we do think we have some interesting lessons learned to share and that you just might be able to pick up some ideas that you can take back to your company.
Bio:
Jon Terry is co-Chief Executive Officer of LeanKit. Before LeanKit, Jon held a number of senior IT positions with hospital-giant HCA and its logistics subsidiary, HealthTrust Purchasing Group. He was among those responsible for launching HCA’s adoption of Lean/Agile methods.
Jon earned his Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and his Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is a Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Master, a Kanban Coaching Professional, is certified in the Lean Construction Institute’s Last Planner Method, and trained in the SAFe Lean Systems Engineering method.
Release wednesdays and the agile release train uploadChris Smith
This presentation describes why and how our development teams sustain a deliberate, weekly release cadence and use a train metaphor to drive planning. It describes the significant benefits realized by teams using this approach to deliver both greenfield and legacy software products.
Building Lean Products with Distributed Agile Teams - Igor Moochnick at Produ...ProductCamp Boston
ProductCamp Boston, April 2011 ****
Tips and tricks for management distributed teams via agile practices. How to establish agile environment? Which one to choose? How to sell it to the organization? *****
Igor has a lot of experience in running agile distributed teams. Agile coach and certified trainer.
General introduction to agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. Also covers what situations Agile is best at, what situations Agile doesn't help with, and what an Agile team should look like. This deck is a general intro to Agile for OpenSource Connections clients.
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.
Agile Tour Zurich Three Secrets of Agile LeadersPeter Stevens
How do leaders achieve long-term goals? How do they inspire people to achieve goals larger than themselves? Three stories of successful leaders, three secrets, and three tips for becoming a better leader. (Hint: The answer is hiding in plain sight.)
Agility as a movement started with software developers uncovering better ways of doing what they do. Today that movement is driving even business leaders to rethink how they lead their organizations. What does it mean to “be” agile? How can agility be applied to leading organizations? Where do successful agile leaders start? Three stories, three secrets and three tips to apply agility to your life and work and unlock your potential as an executive or a manager.
Transitioning To Agile Webinar PresentationThoughtWorks
Transitioning to Agile: In this webinar, attendees will learn how projects can transition to Agile from non Agile environments. This session will throw light on the unique set of challenges and trade-offs that involve cultural, technical and process issues while transitioning to Agile Development.
Speaker profile: Vivek Prahlad is a Delivery Manager at ThoughtWorks Studios, where he helps build Twist, a next generation Functional Testing tool. During his career, Vivek has worked as a Technical Lead, Agile Coach and Project Manager. Vivek is also the author of Frankenstein an open source testing tool for Swing applications.
From Agile Teams to Agile organizationsSteve Mercier
The journey to progress from Agile Teams to Agile Organizations by using a Software Delivery Pipeline engraining all your business software development best practices.
Scaling Scrum using Lean/Kanban in AmdocsYuval Yeret
Learn how Amdocs and Agilesparks took an enterprise Scrum implementation to the next step with Lean/Kanban - Presented in the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010 in Atlanta
INNOVATION ROOTS | Webinar | Three Secrets of Agile Leaders | Peter StevensInnovation Roots
Overview:
Agility as a movement started with software developers uncovering better ways of doing what they do. Today that movement is driving even business leaders to rethink how they lead their organizations. What does it mean to "be" agile? How can agility be applied to leading organizations? Where do successful agile leaders start? Three stories, three secrets, and three tips to apply agility to your life and work and unlock your potential as an executive or a manager.
Learning Objectives:
1. Connect agility at the personal, the team and the organizational level
2. Experience how the same challenges that led to poor performance in software development 30 years ago still plague the management of most organizations today.
3. Learn 3 simple techniques to unlock the potential of management.
4. Learn the key concepts and principles of Personal Agility
Agile Project Management: From Agile Teams to Agile Organizations - Steve Mer...Agile Montréal
Agile Project Management: From Agile Teams to Agile Organizations
We will present the tools and strategies for adopting agile project management practices that connect business, management and delivery teams. We propose a framework that maintains an executive focus on managing investment and risk, introduces enterprise-level agile product development lifecycle and separates project governance from operational delivery while loosely coupling these activities.
À propos de Steve Mercier
Steve est un professionnel du développement de produits logiciels, comptant plus de 20 ans d’expérience. Il a développé et mis en place des lignes de production logicielles assurant une meilleure efficacité de livraison, une adhésion croissante aux meilleures pratiques définies et une qualité accrue des produits entraînant la satisfaction des clients. Il applique les méthodes de travail Agile au quotidien depuis bientôt 10 ans. Il aime les défis techniques, apprécie être responsable de livrer, avec des gens de talents, en équipe, des produits qui comptent vraiment. Au fil des années il s'est spécialisé dans les champs suivants: Bonnes pratiques de développement de logiciel, Intégration et livraison continue, Lignes de production logicielles, Infrastructure gérée comme du code, Méthodes Agile et amélioration continue. Il oeuvre en ce moment comme gestionnaire d’une équipe de 15 DevOps bourrés de talent chez Lightspeed.
À propos de Jean-Paul Chauvet
President, Lightspeed
With over 20 years' experience as a marketing and sales executive in the technology sector, JP has been a key element in the continued growth of Lightspeed. By developing and leading Lightspeed's product strategy, go-to-market direction and taking a direct approach to engaging independent businesses, he has helped Lightspeed increase revenue, strengthen partner relations and achieve success month over month.
Agile Beyond the Hype! – What You Really Need to Know Before You Jump In Vasco Duarte
Many companies adopt Agile because it is the natural thing to do. But do they know what they are getting into? In this talk we will use some anecdotes and lessons learned from Agile adoption to build a model that will hopefully help our companies adopt Agile in a way that affects positively their business.
Questions we try to address will include: How does Agile affect functions outside development? How to bring the benefits of Agile to non-development functions? What can Agile affect my bottom line?
'My Case for Agile Methods & Tranformation' : Presented by Saikat Das oGuild .
This paper describes Saikat's experiences with Agile values, tranforamtion and my implementation of them. He describes the circumstances that have led him to believe passionately that Agile Frameworks will best assure the success of his projects.
Competency models for the team and how to choose specific practices against the model.
He describes what has worked for him and why, and he describes what hasn’t worked and why.
Highlights:
A different Approach to look into Agile practices and Transformation.
The difference between Agile Adoption and Agile Transformation.
The real goal of Agile change initiatives.
Adapting Practices in Agile.
Today’s companies are moving at a faster rate than they have ever moved before.
Companies are continually getting products out the door to keep up with demand, and more importantly to stay ahead of their competition.
Are you in that same position??
Similar to How BMC is Scaling Agile Development (20)
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
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.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
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.
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.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdf
How BMC is Scaling Agile Development
1. How BMC is Scaling Agile Development Lessons Learned in Twelve Exhilarating Agile Months at BMC Israel Gat Vice President, Distributed Systems Management BMC Software
10. Transition to End-to-End Agile Organization Agile R&D Teams R&D Teams Waterfall Optimized Organization Agile Organization Executive Management BU Mgt Sales Mgt Support Mgt Mkt Mgt Operational Team Executive Team
11. End-to-end Participation Direct Field Participation Release Planning I1 I3 I2 I4 I6 I5 I7 I8 Market Planning Market/Solution Release Plan Product Roadmap Product Release Plan Product Release Plan Iteration Demos / Requirements Backlog 3-4 months I1 I3 I2 I4 I6 I5 I7 I8 2 weeks Release Mgt
18. Enterprise Agility at BMC Agile Component Team Agile Teams of Teams Agile Enterprise Scale (perpetual) Measurement A B C D Requirements runway Intentional Architecture Enterprise Tooling Iterate Iterate (2 wks) Design Test Build Release (3 mo) Harden and Ship Req Plan Iterate Iterate Iterate Agile Release Train Organizational Change Organizational Change Agile Release Train Requirements runway
Editor's Notes
In this experience report we examine the large scale deployment of Agile in BMC's Infrastructure Management Division. We identify and demonstrate several critical success factors such as visible intentionality, empowerment, risk taking, top notch Agile consulting, applying Agile as part of the overall software engineering "stack" and changing organizational structures to better apply Agile. In particular, we highlight the relationship between empowerment and risk-taking, and suggest the two should be managed in tandem as the foundation on which successful Agile projects can evolve. Finally we emphasize the importance of rolling agile out across multiple corporate functions - marketing, sales, support, professional serivces, etc. - and to the end customers, in order to get the full benefit at the corporate level.