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Today’s Hosts
John Willis
Advisor to Liatrio
Co-Author, DevOps Handbook
John has worked in the IT
management industry for more
than 40 years. He was formerly
director of ecosystem
development at Docker and a
critical player in a number of
other startups. He is an industry
keynote speaker and co-author of
DevOps Handbook and Beyond
the Phoenix Project.
Ross Clanton
Advisor & Consultant
Formerly of Target & Verizon
Ross built his career reshaping
architecture and technology
strategies for Fortune 50
companies, putting his passion to
work driving leadership and
culture changes necessary to
empower transformation. He has
successfully innovated
enterprise-focused community
practices and models such as
DevOps Dojos and global DevOps
events as a technology executive at
Target & Verizon.
Ravi Kalaga
Director of Consulting Services
Liatrio
Ravi leads Liatrio’s Consulting
Practice and is accountable for its
clients enterprise transformation
delivery. With a deep passion
around being boots on the ground
change agent and helping
enterprise executives to re-imagine
their end to end delivery models,
Ravi and his team take pride in
solving tough cultural,
organizational and engineering
challenges while being trusted
advisors to their clients.
Confidential | Liatrio.com
Igniting an Enterprise
Technology Transformation
With Ross Clanton, John Willis & Liatrio
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Liatrio is the technology transformation un-consulting firm
We believe the only way to effectively
transform is to build high-performing
teams and continuously improve value
delivery across the organization.
LIATRIO’S PHILOSOPHY
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019
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Adapt or Die
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● Requires new ways
of thinking
● Demands different
ways of working
● Compels us to change
leadership & cultural
norms
Why Enterprises are
Struggling to Respond?
Why Most
Transformations Fail?
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Everything is a
Transformation!
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Fact-Finding Inside
Enterprises
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Proven Model
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Products
Over
Projects
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Empowered
and
Collaborative
Culture
Lean, Agile &
DevOps
Practices
Technology
Excellence
—Dojos—
Enterprise
Transformation Engines
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What is a Dojo?
“the place of the way”
Transformation Immersive center
● Learn modern product &
engineering practices
● Experiential learning
● Expert (hands-on) coaches
● Customized experiences
based on team needs
Getting Started with a Dojo
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Complete
Engagement
& Measure
Enter DojoCharter
Back “Into
The Wild”
Team Challenge Process
Full stack team enters
the challenge with their
own backlog
● Rapid Learning
● Uplifted to
Full-Stack team
● Improved time
to value
Retro
Demo Build
Plan
Expert, Hands-On
coaching through
highly accelerated
sprints
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Products
Over
Projects
Empowered
and
Collaborativ
e Culture
Lean, Agile
& DevOps
Practices
Technology
Excellence
Our Methodology
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Ignite Framework
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Upcoming Events
KubeCon, San Diego, CA
Nov 18, 2019
Bay Area
Dec 2019 (TBD)
DeliveryConf, Seattle, WA
Jan 20, 2020
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DOES, Las Vegas, NV
October 28–30, 2019
Come chat with us at Booth 915 and register for a
chance to win a Sonos Move and an RTIC cooler!
liatrio.com/ignite-lab
Q&A
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Igniting an Enterprise Technology Transformation with Ross Clanton & John Willis