The document discusses how companies can innovate their information systems in the current business environment. It advocates harnessing cloud and social platforms to gain operational and information advantages. Cloud platforms provide low-cost, flexible infrastructure that allows companies to experiment and respond quickly to changing markets. Social platforms can be used to gather insights from employees and customers. The document argues that companies should view these networks as ecosystems and find ways to penetrate existing communities rather than trying to build their own. Harnessing cloud and social technologies can help companies develop the agility needed to gain strategic advantages over their competitors.
Traditional approaches to corporate strategy are failing. This is exacerbated by the incessant acceleration in the pace of business change. Now the digital tsunami is reshaping every industry. Long-standing assumptions about how people and organisations make economic decisions turn out to be fundamentally flawed. People make irrational decisions all the time, but in very predictable ways! The trick is to know how to figure out the rapidly-changing rules governing human behaviour. Adding to the uncertainty, long-term sustainable competitive advantage is replaced by a new era of transient advantage, where enterprises need to constantly be reinventing themselves: modernising and evolving their business models, management models, and products and services.
Constant innovation and rapid speed-to-market are the new black. At ThoughtWorks Live Australia 2016, Keith Dodds talked about navigating in deep and turbulent waters where the old maps are no longer reliable. Success will only go to the enterprises that are truly organisationally agile and highly adaptive.
Designing Mobile Solutions for Social & Economic ContextsJonny Schneider
Technology should help solve problems for people, but all people (and their problems) are unique - there is no one size fits all. This is especially true of Mobile, where environments and user needs are much more diverse than in other computing platforms. For instance, building mobile applications for the widest reach in India requires thinking about feature phones, non-English interfaces, the 'language' of missed calls, low-bandwidth situations, cultural nuances and numerous other unique conditions.
Jonny Schneider and Nagarjun Kandukuru argue that the practice of design thinking helps mobile developers solve the most important problems in context-appropriate ways. They demonstrate how the best mobile applications lie at the intersection of technical feasibility, business viability and crucially, user delight.
Enough is not enough - Test Strategy for MobilevodQA
This talk was presented at VodQA Gurgaon 3rd edition (11 July 2013)
Talk Abstract:
No matter how many devices, platforms or screen-sizes you test your mobile app on, your testing may still not be enough. In this era of ever increasing mobile devices and varied platforms, this is bound to happen unless you have a test plan tailored for the mobile world. The intent of this talk is to brace ourselves for this challenge and envision a test strategy for mobile that covers these widespread avenues.
About Speaker:
Jatin has been breaking software systems and helping in re-building them better since last 5+ years. Having worked for clients ranging from small startups to big enterprises, he has worked on variety of domains including telecom, retail, e-commerce, mobile and consulting. He works as Senior Quality Analyst at ThoughtWorks, Gurgaon.
http://www.ianlivingstone.ca/2015/11/17/enabling-autonomy/
The drastic increase in the importance of knowledge workers has turned traditional management structures and philosophy upside down. Previously, all of the information and authority was centralized in management and workers simply operated according to some proscribed procedure with limited ability to make their own decisions. However, the rise of the knowledge worker such as developers, designers, and product managers has thrown these structures out the window as they've proven unable to deliver incredible products and technology.
The new name of the game is enabling teams to operate autonomously and build towards a vision that is seeded by the leadership but authored by the team. How do we enable teams to operate autonomously while ensuring that they are held accountable? How does this change as organizations grow? Why does this matter and what are the results?
Ponencia de Pedro Moneo, Founder and CEO de Opinno, en el IV Congreso Internacional sobre Experiencia de Cliente celebrado el 3 de octubre de 2017 en Madrid,
Traditional approaches to corporate strategy are failing. This is exacerbated by the incessant acceleration in the pace of business change. Now the digital tsunami is reshaping every industry. Long-standing assumptions about how people and organisations make economic decisions turn out to be fundamentally flawed. People make irrational decisions all the time, but in very predictable ways! The trick is to know how to figure out the rapidly-changing rules governing human behaviour. Adding to the uncertainty, long-term sustainable competitive advantage is replaced by a new era of transient advantage, where enterprises need to constantly be reinventing themselves: modernising and evolving their business models, management models, and products and services.
Constant innovation and rapid speed-to-market are the new black. At ThoughtWorks Live Australia 2016, Keith Dodds talked about navigating in deep and turbulent waters where the old maps are no longer reliable. Success will only go to the enterprises that are truly organisationally agile and highly adaptive.
Designing Mobile Solutions for Social & Economic ContextsJonny Schneider
Technology should help solve problems for people, but all people (and their problems) are unique - there is no one size fits all. This is especially true of Mobile, where environments and user needs are much more diverse than in other computing platforms. For instance, building mobile applications for the widest reach in India requires thinking about feature phones, non-English interfaces, the 'language' of missed calls, low-bandwidth situations, cultural nuances and numerous other unique conditions.
Jonny Schneider and Nagarjun Kandukuru argue that the practice of design thinking helps mobile developers solve the most important problems in context-appropriate ways. They demonstrate how the best mobile applications lie at the intersection of technical feasibility, business viability and crucially, user delight.
Enough is not enough - Test Strategy for MobilevodQA
This talk was presented at VodQA Gurgaon 3rd edition (11 July 2013)
Talk Abstract:
No matter how many devices, platforms or screen-sizes you test your mobile app on, your testing may still not be enough. In this era of ever increasing mobile devices and varied platforms, this is bound to happen unless you have a test plan tailored for the mobile world. The intent of this talk is to brace ourselves for this challenge and envision a test strategy for mobile that covers these widespread avenues.
About Speaker:
Jatin has been breaking software systems and helping in re-building them better since last 5+ years. Having worked for clients ranging from small startups to big enterprises, he has worked on variety of domains including telecom, retail, e-commerce, mobile and consulting. He works as Senior Quality Analyst at ThoughtWorks, Gurgaon.
http://www.ianlivingstone.ca/2015/11/17/enabling-autonomy/
The drastic increase in the importance of knowledge workers has turned traditional management structures and philosophy upside down. Previously, all of the information and authority was centralized in management and workers simply operated according to some proscribed procedure with limited ability to make their own decisions. However, the rise of the knowledge worker such as developers, designers, and product managers has thrown these structures out the window as they've proven unable to deliver incredible products and technology.
The new name of the game is enabling teams to operate autonomously and build towards a vision that is seeded by the leadership but authored by the team. How do we enable teams to operate autonomously while ensuring that they are held accountable? How does this change as organizations grow? Why does this matter and what are the results?
Ponencia de Pedro Moneo, Founder and CEO de Opinno, en el IV Congreso Internacional sobre Experiencia de Cliente celebrado el 3 de octubre de 2017 en Madrid,
In today’s business environment, there is constant need to look for new opportunities. The risk of doing business as usual means failure. How can we take advantage of new emerging technologies? We get overload of new products and services, but it is not easy to see the real trends.
In this lecture we look at how to spot trends and how to recognize shift in people’s behaviour. We also explore some tactics we can apply to find new business models and introduce the Innovator´s Method, a framework for starting a business in a lean way.
Our imagination is taken hostage (by outdated input variables)Helge Tennø
By input variables I mean the information, data and experiences we put into our organizations to make them tick. I will argue that there is a gap between what we want our organizations to become and what we put into them to get there.
UX STRAT 2014: Jim Kalbach, "Applying 'Jobs to be Done' to UX Strategy"UX STRAT
A case study of how Turner Broadcasting approached creating a multichannel experience for March Madness Live that extended from Android and iPhones to iPads and desktops. The presentation will cover how the pillars of the cool project where implemented in the product, what worked and what did not work and how the UX design strategy set the team up for continued success.
The user-centered view of the interactions and experience led to the fulfillment of the business goals of improving the brand image which is expressed in the title of the presentation "March Madness is my BFF!" This is one of thousands of tweets expressing the joy fans felt while using the application.
A Web based Co-creation and Open Innovation platform for businessErik Micheelsen
Updated 30 Nov 2012! 2nd generation platform - now you can design your own Real-Time Collaborative web based platform.
The Idea is simply to combine new web based technologies with well proven innovation methods, mixed with exciting graphics, movies and dynamic tools, into the worlds first Co-Creation platform
Gemma Vallet y Óscar Dorda en el IV Congreso DECAsociación DEC
Ponencia de Gemma Vallet, Innovation Director at PHD Media, y Óscar Dorda, CEO at PHD Media, en el IV Congreso Internacional sobre Experiencia de Cliente celebrado el 3 de octubre de 201 en Madrid.
ThoughtWorks Retail and Onefinestay - Business Model Innovation - Retail Week...Thoughtworks
Miranda Cresswell of Onefinestay and Mark Collin of ThoughtWorks Retail discussed 'Driving Business Model Innovation' at Retail Week Buzz 2016 in London
My keynote at the Inbound Marketing Summit, talking about social media, marketing by being part of a community, and "creating more value than you capture."
I delivered this guest lecture for the marketing team of Corteva Agriscience undergoing an executive program at ISB, Hyderabad. I have explained what is digital business model innovation, and how it could apply to agrobusinesses.
This presentation is aimed at teams who either do not have the luxury of a designer on their team, or they have a designer that works in silo to their team. Small teams of developers, BAs and QAs will benefit from understanding the finer details of design.
Developers will gain empathy for design and a better understanding of how to display content. QAs will leave knowing how to quickly notice problems with a design before release.
You will also learn how to ensure the product you are building is ‘on brand’ and ‘user-centric’, and why this is important to ensure the success of your product. Some people have the misconception that design is just creating ‘pretty pictures’. This is not the case; there is a science to creating the right ‘pretty picture’.
The term digital transformation has been bandied about too much, covering everything from business transformation, the creation of efficiencies and new websites to playing with new digital platforms. In reality, it’s business transformation – but with a focus on customers and stakeholders with digital technologies as the catalyst for change. Success is determined by an organisation’s ability to unite and empower their people, processes and products. Only this will generate customer-centric experiences that perform effectively. Danny’s talk explores Cyber-Duck’s top tips for successful digital transformations, drawing on his experience guiding clients through risks and opportunities.
21 ways for innovation. Get your own 21 ways setMarc Heleven
Get your own 21 ways set!
21 ways sets are custom made based on the question formulated by the client.
Starting with the research question, Marc Heleven / 7ideas comes up with a list of 21 principles for which 3 to 7 examples are matched from all over the world, from different sectors. This overview and the copy-adapt-paste method help organisations to innovate faster.
21 ways sets are a spring board for innovation.
Corporate Innovation - Silicon Valley - Intrapreneurship. By corpor8Tommaso Di Bartolo
Aviation Industry, Healthcare, Automotive, Education, Finance, Insurance and other traditional businesses are disrupted by innovative startups. Tommaso Di Bartolo, a serial entrepreneur himself, put together a Silicon Valley network to transform business threads into business opportunities and help corporates shape their future.
"Stop Hiring Devops Experts (And Start Growing Them)" by Jez Humble, Principal, ThoughtWorks.
Presentation Overview: Everyone is putting "devops" on their LinkedIn profile, and everyone is trying to hire them. In this talk, Jez will argue this is not a recruitment problem but an organizations failure. This talk discusses how to grow great people and great organizations, and how the two problems are connected.
Speaker Bio: Jez Humble is a Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He has worked as a software developer, product manager, consultant and trainer across a wide variety of domains and technologies. His focus is on helping organisations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices.
In today’s business environment, there is constant need to look for new opportunities. The risk of doing business as usual means failure. How can we take advantage of new emerging technologies? We get overload of new products and services, but it is not easy to see the real trends.
In this lecture we look at how to spot trends and how to recognize shift in people’s behaviour. We also explore some tactics we can apply to find new business models and introduce the Innovator´s Method, a framework for starting a business in a lean way.
Our imagination is taken hostage (by outdated input variables)Helge Tennø
By input variables I mean the information, data and experiences we put into our organizations to make them tick. I will argue that there is a gap between what we want our organizations to become and what we put into them to get there.
UX STRAT 2014: Jim Kalbach, "Applying 'Jobs to be Done' to UX Strategy"UX STRAT
A case study of how Turner Broadcasting approached creating a multichannel experience for March Madness Live that extended from Android and iPhones to iPads and desktops. The presentation will cover how the pillars of the cool project where implemented in the product, what worked and what did not work and how the UX design strategy set the team up for continued success.
The user-centered view of the interactions and experience led to the fulfillment of the business goals of improving the brand image which is expressed in the title of the presentation "March Madness is my BFF!" This is one of thousands of tweets expressing the joy fans felt while using the application.
A Web based Co-creation and Open Innovation platform for businessErik Micheelsen
Updated 30 Nov 2012! 2nd generation platform - now you can design your own Real-Time Collaborative web based platform.
The Idea is simply to combine new web based technologies with well proven innovation methods, mixed with exciting graphics, movies and dynamic tools, into the worlds first Co-Creation platform
Gemma Vallet y Óscar Dorda en el IV Congreso DECAsociación DEC
Ponencia de Gemma Vallet, Innovation Director at PHD Media, y Óscar Dorda, CEO at PHD Media, en el IV Congreso Internacional sobre Experiencia de Cliente celebrado el 3 de octubre de 201 en Madrid.
ThoughtWorks Retail and Onefinestay - Business Model Innovation - Retail Week...Thoughtworks
Miranda Cresswell of Onefinestay and Mark Collin of ThoughtWorks Retail discussed 'Driving Business Model Innovation' at Retail Week Buzz 2016 in London
My keynote at the Inbound Marketing Summit, talking about social media, marketing by being part of a community, and "creating more value than you capture."
I delivered this guest lecture for the marketing team of Corteva Agriscience undergoing an executive program at ISB, Hyderabad. I have explained what is digital business model innovation, and how it could apply to agrobusinesses.
This presentation is aimed at teams who either do not have the luxury of a designer on their team, or they have a designer that works in silo to their team. Small teams of developers, BAs and QAs will benefit from understanding the finer details of design.
Developers will gain empathy for design and a better understanding of how to display content. QAs will leave knowing how to quickly notice problems with a design before release.
You will also learn how to ensure the product you are building is ‘on brand’ and ‘user-centric’, and why this is important to ensure the success of your product. Some people have the misconception that design is just creating ‘pretty pictures’. This is not the case; there is a science to creating the right ‘pretty picture’.
The term digital transformation has been bandied about too much, covering everything from business transformation, the creation of efficiencies and new websites to playing with new digital platforms. In reality, it’s business transformation – but with a focus on customers and stakeholders with digital technologies as the catalyst for change. Success is determined by an organisation’s ability to unite and empower their people, processes and products. Only this will generate customer-centric experiences that perform effectively. Danny’s talk explores Cyber-Duck’s top tips for successful digital transformations, drawing on his experience guiding clients through risks and opportunities.
21 ways for innovation. Get your own 21 ways setMarc Heleven
Get your own 21 ways set!
21 ways sets are custom made based on the question formulated by the client.
Starting with the research question, Marc Heleven / 7ideas comes up with a list of 21 principles for which 3 to 7 examples are matched from all over the world, from different sectors. This overview and the copy-adapt-paste method help organisations to innovate faster.
21 ways sets are a spring board for innovation.
Corporate Innovation - Silicon Valley - Intrapreneurship. By corpor8Tommaso Di Bartolo
Aviation Industry, Healthcare, Automotive, Education, Finance, Insurance and other traditional businesses are disrupted by innovative startups. Tommaso Di Bartolo, a serial entrepreneur himself, put together a Silicon Valley network to transform business threads into business opportunities and help corporates shape their future.
"Stop Hiring Devops Experts (And Start Growing Them)" by Jez Humble, Principal, ThoughtWorks.
Presentation Overview: Everyone is putting "devops" on their LinkedIn profile, and everyone is trying to hire them. In this talk, Jez will argue this is not a recruitment problem but an organizations failure. This talk discusses how to grow great people and great organizations, and how the two problems are connected.
Speaker Bio: Jez Humble is a Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He has worked as a software developer, product manager, consultant and trainer across a wide variety of domains and technologies. His focus is on helping organisations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices.
The Toyota Way, also known as Lean, was born from hardship and survival. It is an approach that does not rely on the accidental fortunate circumstance of being in a positive business climate. The system that propelled Toyota to the top of the global automotive industry is designed to succeed in both good times and bad.
Lean thinking fundamentally changes the engagement model between IT and the business, challenging traditional relationships with staff,customers and partners.
This session, presented by a partnership between ThoughtWorks and KM&T, explains the Lean approach to challenges, continuous improvement, productivity, and quality, and how these principles can help you deliver high-value,high-quality software solutions to reduce operational costs, increase profitability, and survive.
With presenters bringing deep expertise from Toyota, Lean and Agile principles, learn how to:
-Identify and eliminate non-value adding work and cost (i.e., waste)
-Build quality into processes to remove unnecessary rework
-Apply Just-in-Time (JIT) principles to software delivery
-Build processes that optimise use of resources and productivity for the entire end-to-end value stream
-Engage everyone to continuously improve your team and practices
-Understand the differences between repetitive processes, product development and software development
Join us to discover how to do more with less.
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BRISBANE
Tuesday 17 March, 2009
8am –- 9.30am
Hilton
190 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane
SYDNEY
Tuesday 24 March, 2009
8am –- 9.30am
Hilton
488 George Street, Sydney
MELBOURNE
Tuesday 31 March, 2009
8am –- 9.30am
Marriott
Cnr Exhibition & Lonsdale
Streets, Melbourne
PERTH
Tuesday 7 April, 2009
8am –- 9.30am
Hilton
14 Mill Street, Perth
A light buffet breakfast will be provided *
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The skills you learn as a developer do nothing to prepare you for leading teams. When you suddenly find yourself in an Architect or a Tech Lead role, you're winging it, unsure about what the role entails and what skills you need. Find out how you can better prepare yourself for the unexpected.
7 Dimensions of Agile Analytics by Ken Collier Thoughtworks
We are in the midst of an exciting time. There is an explosion of very interesting data, and emergence of powerful new technologies for harnessing data, and devices that enable humans to receive tremendous benefits from it. What is required are innovative processes that enable the creation and delivery of value from all of that data. More often than not, it is the predictive (what will happen?) and prescriptive (how to make it happen!) analytics that produces this value, not the raw data itself. Agile software teams are continuously involved in projects that involve rich, complex, and messy data. Often this data represents innovative analytics opportunities. Being analytics-aware gives these teams the opportunity to collaborate with stakeholders to innovate by creating additional value from the data. This session is aimed at making Agile software teams more analytics-aware so that they will recognize these innovation opportunities. The trouble with conventional analytics (like conventional software development) is that it involves long, phased, sequential steps that take too long and fail to deliver actionable results. This deck will examine the convergence of the following elements of an exciting emerging field called Agile Analytics:
sophisticated analytics techniques, plus
lean learning principles, plus
agile delivery methods, plus
so-called "big data" technologies
Learn:
The analytical modeling process and techniques
How analytical models are deployed using modern technologies
The complexities of data discovery, harvesting, and preparation
How to apply agile techniques to shorten the analytics development cycle
How to apply lean learning principles to develop actionable and valuable analytics.
Commercialization Challenges of Mobile Software Development in an Exponential...Stephen King
This is part 3 of the "Fragmented Mobile Ecosystem" decks I've done over the last 7 years. This 2017 version focuses on the journey of an entrepreneur, the state of mobile development today, where are we at (and going) and the journey of pivoting a young startup as iPhone and Android stunned the mobile world in Fall 2008. Presented at Mobile Monday Calgary #30, it also includes some advice for entrants in the technology field... and lastly it covers some resources that are available; developers networks, public funding and grants, Mobile Monday global.
In the first deck of 2009, I look at the early mobile platform wars: http://www.slideshare.net/stebankag/wi-tec-stephen-king-commercialization-challenges-of-mobile-software-development-in-a-fragmented-mobile-ecosystem-mob4hire
In the second 2nd deck in 2012, I update for how the fragmented mobile ecosystem is affecting mobile enterprise development, and how enterprises are shifting billions of dollars to adopt mobile processes into the internal, customer and partner relationships.
http://www.slideshare.net/stebankag/commercialization-challenges-of-enterprise-mobile-adoption-in-the-fragmented-mobile-ecosystem
Webinar. EBOM, MBOM, PBOM, XBOM......how do I manage BOMs over various disciplines and demands within my company? Learn about different approaches and examples.
Striking Gold! How Mobile Marketing Pioneers are Winning the Hearts & Minds o...Paul Brown
This session ran on the first day of the a4u Expo 2012. The 1 hour slot focused on 3 mobile marketing perspectives for Advertisers, Agencies & Publishers to consider as they work there way towards joining the 10% of top 1 million domains that are mobile optimised. 3 core principles of mobile optimised web design are considered, as are methods of monetising that property, and how you might drive more traffic to it... Along the way Mobile Marketing Pioneers are flagged as examples. If you are interested in mobile of performance marketing, keep an eye on http://www.a4uexpo.com for future events.
Application Modernization meets Cloud and Mobile ... Where to Start?John Head
Session Given at IBM InterConnect 2016 - It's 2016. Your application portfolio is being reviewed and scrutinized. Mobile and cloud are more than checkboxes on a list. User expectations are higher than ever. But there are so many options—what do you do? Looking through the lens of IBM Software, we will answer that question by providing a roadmap and experiences to help you choose the best path. We'll deep-dive into the five aspects of Application Modernization: User Experience, Social, Cloud, Mobile, and Modern Workflow. You'll see demos of actual transformations and the impact they have had within organizations. We'll put special attention on IBM Bluemix, SmartCloud, and the MobileFirst Platform. Learn how new functionality in the products will make your journey easier.
Mobile trends and academic opportunities presented at Strathmore and JKUAT Un...Jeremy Siewert
You are invited to explore the recent developments and announcements of a new portfolio of mobile products and services called IBM MobileFirst. By incorporating mobile capabilities that range from analytics, cloud, security, device management, application development and industry expertise, IBM MobileFirst will help you use mobile in new and unique ways to be more productive and innovative. IBM MobileFirst offers an array of solutions that helps connect, secure, and manage and develop mobile networks, infrastructures, and applications.
Attend this session and learn more about:
The mobile marketplace - trends, insights, future direction
Taking a Mobile First approach - what is involved
Industry use cases
Demo of sample application
Q&A
"OMG: Modeling the Business. The Real Revolution". Richard Soley presentation at the BPM Forum 2013 in Milan introducing a day of Business Process Modeling with some thoughts about this change and the impact on both technology and business. In the ITC world, most of the focus on modeling has been on technical artifacts: software, configuration, test development, and so forth. In business analysis, most of the focus of modeling has been based on ambiguous, natural languages. These worlds are colliding now, with semantically-rich, precise descriptions of business models useful as the basis for detailed, exact business analysis, communications and metrics.
Similar to ThoughtWorks Quarterly Technology Briefing, London, September 2009 (20)
Design System as a Product - Maria Elena Duenias, Esther Butcher
Design systems are a great example where web development and design meet. You can find innumerable resources on the internet, books and conferences on how to build them, and how they are exactly what your organization needs. But, building one requires a lot more than following a recipe. In this talk we are going to discuss how to build a design system as an internal product, and how it evolves to become what the users need.
Designers, Developers and Dogs: Finding the magic balance between product and tech - Charlotte Vorbeck, ShareNow and Sahil Bajaj
How can an agile delivery team become a successful product team? When does collaboration between product and tech succeed and when not? Why do people in some teams inspire each other while others in the same environment don't speak the same language? In this talk we want to share our learnings and experiences from rebuilding an internal tool for customer support at ShareNow. What could have been just another boring rewrite surprisingly became one of our best experiences in collaboration. We will look at how a joint discovery phase helped us to come up with a shared vision, how a better team setup enabled us to do the necessary work, how focusing on the customer kept us aligned during our journey, and also how we built upon existing collaborative techniques to achieve this new level of cooperation and trust.
During this presentation, Ward Coessens, ThoughtWorks' Consultant will share best practice insights from the Daimler partnership, helping the automotive group on their cloud innovation journey.
How to create more business impact with flexible teams - Jan Hegewald, Zalando & Rebekka Beels, Zalando
Usually, Software Engineering teams are organized around a fixed set of components which they develop further and maintain. Such component teams gain a high level of expert knowledge about their services. However, with agile product development, it often is difficult to implement the most important initiatives with such teams. This leads to a situation where the teams do not work on the most relevant business topics but on those for the respective team. At Zalando, we introduced a new model where we shape teams flexibly around business goals to create the highest impact. How we organize these teams and which challenges especially for the software quality need to be addressed, will be explored in this talk.
Amazon’s Culture of Innovation & The Working Backwards session
Working Backwards; leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. Where do you begin? By focusing on the customer.
During this webinar, Amazon will discuss key innovation principles which have been instrumental in their continued success and their Working Backwards approach.
Dual-Track Agile for Discovery & Development - Adriana Katrandzhieva
The talk will focus on one of the ways teams can ensure continuous delivery and design in their projects. The so-called ‘Dual-track’ model shows the parallel tracks of discovery and development throughout the product design and delivery process. These continually feedback into each other informing new hypothesis that can be tested in order to be proven/disproven. This model is not always easy to implement out of the box and so I will share my own experiences in applying it in practice - what worked, what didn't and how the model can be adjusted to fit different teams and organisational environments.
Designing the Developer Experience - Tanja Bach, Jacob Bo Tiedemann
Working with software that some other people have built, is not only daily business for private and business users but also for developers. Just like any other product, a product for developers needs to solve their problems and focus on the right jobs-to-be-done in order to be successfully adopted by the developer community. In this talk, we will explain why the developer experience matters not only to developers but also to the business. We will share our learnings and real-world examples of how we created a developer experience for a cloud infrastructure product and an IoT platform that the developers love.
When we design together - Sabrina Mach, Ammara Gafoor and James Emmott
From three distinct perspectives, this talk will contend that design is an activity undertaken by everyone in a software development team. It occurs throughout the process of delivery — not only at the beginning or the end — and it is a powerful instrument for learning about and adapting to the problems our work seeks to solve, which is a shared responsibility. Making the best use of our multidisciplinary expertise in the activity of design requires forms of collaboration that are too often disrupted by the role-based silos that keep us separated and weaken the valuable contribution our diverse approaches could make to our collective efforts. If you care about accelerating time to market, improving customer experience, or building happy and productive teams, you will want to know why and how it matters that we believe ‘design is in everything that we do’.
Hardware is hard(er): designing for distributed user experiences in IoT - Claire Rowland, www.clairerowland.com
Designing connected devices and hardware-enabled services is significantly more complex than pure software. There are more devices on which code can run, connectivity and data sharing patterns to consider, and often multiple and varied touchpoints for users to interact with. Pulling this all together into a coherent experience involves strong collaboration between design and engineering, and a systems thinking approach to UX. In this talk, we’ll introduce what designers need to know about the tech, what engineers need to know about UX for IoT, and how to facilitate the whole-collaboration needed to create great products.
www.clairerowland.com
Customer-centric innovation enabled by cloudThoughtworks
Working Backwards - Leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. In this upcoming webinar, we’ve partnered with AWS to bring you exclusive insights from one of the world’s most innovative companies, Amazon.
Working Backwards - Leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. In this upcoming webinar, we’ve partnered with AWS to bring you exclusive insights from one of the world’s most innovative companies, Amazon.
Find out how to validate hypotheses quickly using feedback that comes from a (large enough) number of actual users interacting with your product. In this talk, we will show you the technical foundations, research techniques and organisational setup that we have used successfully on large-scale products. These will save you development time, enable you to go live with confidence, make decisions based on real behaviour instead of best guesses, and solve the actual problems your users are facing.
As a tech leader at ThoughtWorks, a large part of my job involves recommending practices to our clients so they can build and deliver good quality software faster. In doing so repeatedly for many clients I have created a toolkit that contains practical advice from being on the ground. This is what we do, we know it works. When Julius Caesar entered Rome with his army by crossing the river Rubicon, he did something that couldn’t be undone ever again. In your journey as a leader, avoid mistakes that are difficult to correct later. Here are a set of practices that you want to adopt as soon as possible.
Handling error conditions is a core part of the software we write. However, we often treat it as a second class citizen, obscuring our intent through abuse of null values and exceptions that make our code hard to understand and maintain. In the functional programming community, it is common to use datatypes such as Option, Either or Validated to make our intentions explicit when dealing with errors. We can leverage the compiler to verify that we are handling them instead of hoping for the best at runtime. This results in code that is clearer, without hidden path flows. We’ll show how we have been doing this in Kotlin, with the help of the Arrow library.
Mutation testing in software development surfaced in academia during the 70's and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity as a legitimate tool in your testing arsenal. In this session we review the conventional testing pyramid, modern approaches to testing software and look at how mutation testing can help fill in those blind spots.
The continued adoption of containers for deployments has introduced a new path for security issues. In this talk, we will cover the most common areas of vulnerabilities, the challenges in securing your containers, some good practices to help overcome these issues and how to run container security scanning as part of your deployment pipeline.
Mainframes handle 30 billion business transactions each day and 87% of all credit card transactions*, they are not traditionally associated with flexible, fail-fast development approaches. Can we bring the practices of agile, CI/CD and fully automated deployments to applications running on a mainframe? During our talk, we'll tell you a story about test automation; redefining the smallest testable unit of a program. And we'll discuss our learnings from introducing continuous integration and agile practices to the world of insurance and mainframes.
*9 Mainframe statistics that may surprise you
ThoughtWorks' Lucy Kurian, James Lewis & Kief Morris discuss tech trends in our latest Technology Radar, covering techniques, platforms, tools, languages and frameworks.
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/
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.
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/
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.
"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.
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.
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
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.
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.