Agile Center of Excellence : Presented by Rahul Sudame oGuild .
When any organization plans to move to Agile methodology, it needs to plan multiple initiatives for successful transition. One of the important initiative would be building an Agile Center of Excellence, a team which would support for consistency of Agile implementation across the organization. The Agile CoE we built worked on multiple aspects such as:
Defining organization-wide Agile methodology, tailoring it as per organization environment if required.
Build knowledge of Agile across the organization.
Supporting the team members with any ongoing queries.
Support in building required Tools and Templates required implementing Agile.
Assessing Agile implementation of different projects, identifying any gaps or improvement areas.
This session covered practical experience of how we built a successful Center of Excellence, which become a big enabler for successful Agile transformation.
10 Essential SAFe(tm) patterns you should focus on when scaling AgileYuval Yeret
Scaling agile can be overwhelming. In this tutorial, Yuval will provide an overview of the ten essential SAFe patterns, and highlight the diagnostic symptoms that appear when the patterns aren’t in place. Attendees will develop a personal “flash assessment” of their current work context and will be able to identify to “inspect and adapt” areas for improvement. They will also learn how to use this sort of assessment/patterns during their scaled agile journey.
(This includes the Essential SAFe assessment toolkit provided by ScaledAgile)
Four pillars of DevOps - John Shaw - Agile Cambridge 2014johnfcshaw
Slides presented at Agile Cambridge 2014 http://agilecambridge.net/ac2014/sessions/index.php?session=57
Session Description:
The emerging practice of DevOps is a natural extension to established Agile methods. The choice of tooling to support the practices is important and will influence heavily how rapid, repeatable and reliable live deployments might be.
Three of the four pillars are concerned with automation through tooling but, arguably, the fourth pillar is more important than the other three together. The fourth pillar is at the heart of the Agile Manifesto: people.
The "Gold Rush" for DevOps is dominated by vendors and the push to sell their wares. But it is people who use the tools, people who define, develop and assure the software, and people who manage the services after they have gone live. One of the cornerstones of DevOps is breaking down the walls between development teams and operations; too much tool specialisation will lead to further separation and even the introduction of yet another silo.
This talk will cover four pillars to DevOps: Environments, Deployment, Testing and People. The insights brought together in this talk were gained under commercial engagements with government clients, on development of financial systems responsible for management of funding in the adult education sector.
Introduction to SAFe, the Scaled Agile Frameworksrondal
Sans doute vous identifiez vous dans une ou plusieurs des situations suivantes:
- plusieurs équipes Scrum travaillent dans votre entreprise, parfois sur un même projet ou des projets connexes
- la coordination entre équipes Scrum n'est pas optimale
- vous-même, ou certains stakeholders, ont besoin d'une vue plus long terme sur vos projets Agile, plus que "juste le prochain sprint"
- sur base du succès de Scrum dans votre entreprise, vous voulez allez plus loin et vous voulez rendre plus agile l'entièreté de votre entreprise
Si c'est le cas, venez découvrir le framework SAFe.
Après une présentation du framework et de ses fondements, vous serez en mesure de mieux le comprendre, et de voir ce qu'il peut apporter ou non à votre entreprise.
Rick Austin - Portfolio mangement in an agile world [Agile DC]LeadingAgile
When organizations move to agile for software delivery, there is often tension with traditional portfolio management. This talk will illustrate how an organization can move from traditional portfolio management approaches to one that embraces agile software delivery. Doing so enables organizations to become predictable, improve the flow of value delivered, and pivot more quickly if necessary.
We will demonstrate the use of governance that allows a more adaptive portfolio management approach. We will cover topics that enable agile portfolio management including:
Lean techniques for managing flow
Effective prioritization techniques
Long range road-mapping
Demand management and planning
Progressively elaborated business cases
Validation of outcomes
Support for audit and compliance needs
These topics will be illustrated by real-world examples of portfolio management that have been proven over the last five years with a wide range of clients.
Agile Center of Excellence : Presented by Rahul Sudame oGuild .
When any organization plans to move to Agile methodology, it needs to plan multiple initiatives for successful transition. One of the important initiative would be building an Agile Center of Excellence, a team which would support for consistency of Agile implementation across the organization. The Agile CoE we built worked on multiple aspects such as:
Defining organization-wide Agile methodology, tailoring it as per organization environment if required.
Build knowledge of Agile across the organization.
Supporting the team members with any ongoing queries.
Support in building required Tools and Templates required implementing Agile.
Assessing Agile implementation of different projects, identifying any gaps or improvement areas.
This session covered practical experience of how we built a successful Center of Excellence, which become a big enabler for successful Agile transformation.
10 Essential SAFe(tm) patterns you should focus on when scaling AgileYuval Yeret
Scaling agile can be overwhelming. In this tutorial, Yuval will provide an overview of the ten essential SAFe patterns, and highlight the diagnostic symptoms that appear when the patterns aren’t in place. Attendees will develop a personal “flash assessment” of their current work context and will be able to identify to “inspect and adapt” areas for improvement. They will also learn how to use this sort of assessment/patterns during their scaled agile journey.
(This includes the Essential SAFe assessment toolkit provided by ScaledAgile)
Four pillars of DevOps - John Shaw - Agile Cambridge 2014johnfcshaw
Slides presented at Agile Cambridge 2014 http://agilecambridge.net/ac2014/sessions/index.php?session=57
Session Description:
The emerging practice of DevOps is a natural extension to established Agile methods. The choice of tooling to support the practices is important and will influence heavily how rapid, repeatable and reliable live deployments might be.
Three of the four pillars are concerned with automation through tooling but, arguably, the fourth pillar is more important than the other three together. The fourth pillar is at the heart of the Agile Manifesto: people.
The "Gold Rush" for DevOps is dominated by vendors and the push to sell their wares. But it is people who use the tools, people who define, develop and assure the software, and people who manage the services after they have gone live. One of the cornerstones of DevOps is breaking down the walls between development teams and operations; too much tool specialisation will lead to further separation and even the introduction of yet another silo.
This talk will cover four pillars to DevOps: Environments, Deployment, Testing and People. The insights brought together in this talk were gained under commercial engagements with government clients, on development of financial systems responsible for management of funding in the adult education sector.
Introduction to SAFe, the Scaled Agile Frameworksrondal
Sans doute vous identifiez vous dans une ou plusieurs des situations suivantes:
- plusieurs équipes Scrum travaillent dans votre entreprise, parfois sur un même projet ou des projets connexes
- la coordination entre équipes Scrum n'est pas optimale
- vous-même, ou certains stakeholders, ont besoin d'une vue plus long terme sur vos projets Agile, plus que "juste le prochain sprint"
- sur base du succès de Scrum dans votre entreprise, vous voulez allez plus loin et vous voulez rendre plus agile l'entièreté de votre entreprise
Si c'est le cas, venez découvrir le framework SAFe.
Après une présentation du framework et de ses fondements, vous serez en mesure de mieux le comprendre, et de voir ce qu'il peut apporter ou non à votre entreprise.
Rick Austin - Portfolio mangement in an agile world [Agile DC]LeadingAgile
When organizations move to agile for software delivery, there is often tension with traditional portfolio management. This talk will illustrate how an organization can move from traditional portfolio management approaches to one that embraces agile software delivery. Doing so enables organizations to become predictable, improve the flow of value delivered, and pivot more quickly if necessary.
We will demonstrate the use of governance that allows a more adaptive portfolio management approach. We will cover topics that enable agile portfolio management including:
Lean techniques for managing flow
Effective prioritization techniques
Long range road-mapping
Demand management and planning
Progressively elaborated business cases
Validation of outcomes
Support for audit and compliance needs
These topics will be illustrated by real-world examples of portfolio management that have been proven over the last five years with a wide range of clients.
Don't waterfall your agile transformation effort. LACE stands for Lean Agile Center for Excellence, it's your uber group of change agents that shepard your Agile transformation. Whether the transformation is an organization decision, or a grass roots movement, you are going to hit a point where LACE is needed to sustain the change. Stickiness! LACE is one of the critical factors for the more successful enterprise transformations.
Leading a large-scale agile transformation isn’t about adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level… it’s about helping your company deliver faster to market, and developing the ability to respond to a rapidly-changing competitive landscape. First and foremost, it’s about achieving business agility. Business agility comes from people having clarity of purpose, a willingness to be held accountable, and the ability to achieve measurable outcomes. Unfortunately, almost everything in modern organizations gets in the way of teams acting with any sort of autonomy. In most companies, achieving business agility requires significant organizational change.
Agile transformation necessitates a fundamental rethinking of how your company organizes for delivery, how it delivers value to its customers, and how it plans and measures outcomes. Agile transformation is about building enabling structures, aligning the flow of work, and measuring for outcomes based progress. It's about breaking dependencies. The reality is that this kind of change can only be led from the top. This talk will explore how executives can define an idealized end-state for the transformation, build a fiscally responsible iterative and incremental plan to realize that end-state, as well as techniques for tracking progress and managing change.
Webinar On Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) | iZenBridgeSaket Bansal
This presentation we used in our webinar on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) .
We first look at what scaling is about and how Safe helps in scaling agile projects.
Presenter:
Dr. Gail Ferreira, Agile Practice Leader, MATRIX Resources, San Francisco Center of Excellence
Rapid scale directly impacts all levels of decision-making, planning, execution, culture, and communications for executives in hypergrowth companies. In this session, we will discuss how to organize, support, and tailor agile practices for teams and sub-teams in companies with a rapid growth cycle. We will share contemporary case studies of hypergrowth companies who have delivered agile at scale.
Topics will include:
• Basic agile and lean methods
• Scrum of Scrums
• SAFe
• Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
• Agility at Scale (Ambler/Lines)
• Spotify model (Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds, DSDM).
This talk explains a proven approach to assessment SRE practices for an organization. The approach uses a 9 pillar model and 7 step transformation blueprint to determine current state of SRE practices and to set a roadmap to improve SRE practices towards industry best practices.
How does an agile software development team choose its way of working, and do so in a context sensitive manner?
This was presented at the Toronto Agile Conference on October 30, 2018.
Full course available at: http://masterofproject.com/courses/agile-project-management-scrum-framework-certification-prep
Course Description
The Agile & Scrum Certification Training course imparts knowledge on the Agile and Scrum values, helps you build the requisite skills and gain expertise in the domain. The course provides immense clarity on vital concepts of scrum and agile to help you clear the certification exam in your first attempt. The course aims to make you an expert in the Scrum ways, enhancing your capability to deliver shippable products by the end of each Sprint. With the practical application of the agile methodologies you would be able to maximize business value, while mitigating potential risks.
Features
50+ Lectures
10+ Hours
Lifetime Access
100% Online & Self Paced
30 day money back guarantee!
Course Completion Certificate
What am I going to get from this course?
Learn the Agile Methodologies and Agile Project Management
Learn Scrum Framework
Learn practical implications of Scrum over a sample project
Get ready for Scrum Certification exams (PMI-ACP, CSM, PSM, CSPO, PSPO, CSD, PSD)
Learn Scrum Team
Learn Scrum Events
Learn Scrum Artifacs
Learn Extreme Programming (XP) Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn Lean Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn Kanban Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn the differences of Agile & Scrum Certifications provided by different organizations
Qualify for the 21 Contact Hours Agile Training requirement of PMI for the PMI-ACP certification.
Earn 15 SEUs under Category E: Independent Learning of Scrum Alliance
Earn 14 PDUs if you are a PMP already.
What is the target audience?
The Agile & Scrum certification is best suited for:
Team Leaders
Project Managers
Members of Scrum teams such as developers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners
Managers of Scrum teams
Teams transitioning to Scrum
Professionals intending to pursue the Scrum Master certification
Agile Transformation consists of a group of professional change agents specializing in process improvement and organizational transformation. We are experts in Agile, Lean and organizational transformation methods applied to Technology and Business.
At AWS re:Invent, we have launched support for blue/green deployments for services hosted using AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Blue/green deployments help you minimize downtime during application updates. They allow you to launch a new version of your application alongside the old version and test the new version before you reroute traffic to it. You can also monitor the deployment process and, if there is an issue, quickly roll back.
In this workshop, you will create a new service in AWS Fargate that uses AWS CodeDeploy to manage the deployments, testing, and traffic cutover for you.
An Executive Insider's Guide to Enterprise Agile TransformationScott Richardson
Gain insights and learn real-world strategies and techniques for leading an enterprise or divisional Agile transformation as an executive or senior leader of a large organization.
Your Journey to Cloud-Native Begins with DevOps, Microservices, and ContainersAtlassian
Everyone is excited about cloud-native applications. And for good reason! They're scalable, resilient, portable across cloud environments, and make it easier to incorporate customer feedback quickly. But there's a catch: cloud-native applications fundamentally change the way you provision, deploy, and manage your infrastructure.
That's where DevOps, microservices, and containers come in. This session will show you how to combine them to create a highly-automated continuous delivery platform. By streamlining the process to resemble factory assembly lines, you can adapt quickly to market changes and keep your customers happy – without burning your team out.
Have you tried assessing the maturity of your Agile teams? Have you developed your own unique approach or adopted an approach found online? Have you found the assessments valuable and continued them?
This material introduces a very simple, straightforward approach for Agile and Scrum maturity assessments without the complexity and pitfalls of numerous more sophisticated approaches.
The author has used five different approaches to assess Agile maturity over the past decade, three developed by Agile coaching staff and two developed by himself, before adopting this simpler retrospective Agile maturity assessment.
Shared at Agile New England as an Agile 101 topic in June 2023.
Continuous Delivery presents a compelling vision of builds that are automatically deployed and tested until ready for production.
Most teams aren't there yet. Some never want to go that far. Others want to push the envelope further.
This deck presents a model for scoring yourself on the continuum and examples of how companies can decide what parts of CD to adopt first, later and not at all.
What are the Tools & Techniques in Agile Project Management?Tuan Yang
Organizations, teams and even project management software are increasingly responding to a demand for more adaptive and evolutionary processes. In a fast-changing business world that needs to respond to rapid market and technology shifts, Agile delivers. Agile project management provides numerous benefits to organizations, project teams, and products.
Learn more about:
» Set up an Agile project.
» Assign roles and responsibilities.
» Create a prioritized list of requirements.
» Define increments and timeboxes.
» Manage a Solution Development Team or Teams.
» Use Agile techniques such as Feature Driven Development.
» Present the benefits of Agile approaches to Senior Management.
Don't waterfall your agile transformation effort. LACE stands for Lean Agile Center for Excellence, it's your uber group of change agents that shepard your Agile transformation. Whether the transformation is an organization decision, or a grass roots movement, you are going to hit a point where LACE is needed to sustain the change. Stickiness! LACE is one of the critical factors for the more successful enterprise transformations.
Leading a large-scale agile transformation isn’t about adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level… it’s about helping your company deliver faster to market, and developing the ability to respond to a rapidly-changing competitive landscape. First and foremost, it’s about achieving business agility. Business agility comes from people having clarity of purpose, a willingness to be held accountable, and the ability to achieve measurable outcomes. Unfortunately, almost everything in modern organizations gets in the way of teams acting with any sort of autonomy. In most companies, achieving business agility requires significant organizational change.
Agile transformation necessitates a fundamental rethinking of how your company organizes for delivery, how it delivers value to its customers, and how it plans and measures outcomes. Agile transformation is about building enabling structures, aligning the flow of work, and measuring for outcomes based progress. It's about breaking dependencies. The reality is that this kind of change can only be led from the top. This talk will explore how executives can define an idealized end-state for the transformation, build a fiscally responsible iterative and incremental plan to realize that end-state, as well as techniques for tracking progress and managing change.
Webinar On Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) | iZenBridgeSaket Bansal
This presentation we used in our webinar on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) .
We first look at what scaling is about and how Safe helps in scaling agile projects.
Presenter:
Dr. Gail Ferreira, Agile Practice Leader, MATRIX Resources, San Francisco Center of Excellence
Rapid scale directly impacts all levels of decision-making, planning, execution, culture, and communications for executives in hypergrowth companies. In this session, we will discuss how to organize, support, and tailor agile practices for teams and sub-teams in companies with a rapid growth cycle. We will share contemporary case studies of hypergrowth companies who have delivered agile at scale.
Topics will include:
• Basic agile and lean methods
• Scrum of Scrums
• SAFe
• Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
• Agility at Scale (Ambler/Lines)
• Spotify model (Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds, DSDM).
This talk explains a proven approach to assessment SRE practices for an organization. The approach uses a 9 pillar model and 7 step transformation blueprint to determine current state of SRE practices and to set a roadmap to improve SRE practices towards industry best practices.
How does an agile software development team choose its way of working, and do so in a context sensitive manner?
This was presented at the Toronto Agile Conference on October 30, 2018.
Full course available at: http://masterofproject.com/courses/agile-project-management-scrum-framework-certification-prep
Course Description
The Agile & Scrum Certification Training course imparts knowledge on the Agile and Scrum values, helps you build the requisite skills and gain expertise in the domain. The course provides immense clarity on vital concepts of scrum and agile to help you clear the certification exam in your first attempt. The course aims to make you an expert in the Scrum ways, enhancing your capability to deliver shippable products by the end of each Sprint. With the practical application of the agile methodologies you would be able to maximize business value, while mitigating potential risks.
Features
50+ Lectures
10+ Hours
Lifetime Access
100% Online & Self Paced
30 day money back guarantee!
Course Completion Certificate
What am I going to get from this course?
Learn the Agile Methodologies and Agile Project Management
Learn Scrum Framework
Learn practical implications of Scrum over a sample project
Get ready for Scrum Certification exams (PMI-ACP, CSM, PSM, CSPO, PSPO, CSD, PSD)
Learn Scrum Team
Learn Scrum Events
Learn Scrum Artifacs
Learn Extreme Programming (XP) Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn Lean Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn Kanban Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn the differences of Agile & Scrum Certifications provided by different organizations
Qualify for the 21 Contact Hours Agile Training requirement of PMI for the PMI-ACP certification.
Earn 15 SEUs under Category E: Independent Learning of Scrum Alliance
Earn 14 PDUs if you are a PMP already.
What is the target audience?
The Agile & Scrum certification is best suited for:
Team Leaders
Project Managers
Members of Scrum teams such as developers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners
Managers of Scrum teams
Teams transitioning to Scrum
Professionals intending to pursue the Scrum Master certification
Agile Transformation consists of a group of professional change agents specializing in process improvement and organizational transformation. We are experts in Agile, Lean and organizational transformation methods applied to Technology and Business.
At AWS re:Invent, we have launched support for blue/green deployments for services hosted using AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Blue/green deployments help you minimize downtime during application updates. They allow you to launch a new version of your application alongside the old version and test the new version before you reroute traffic to it. You can also monitor the deployment process and, if there is an issue, quickly roll back.
In this workshop, you will create a new service in AWS Fargate that uses AWS CodeDeploy to manage the deployments, testing, and traffic cutover for you.
An Executive Insider's Guide to Enterprise Agile TransformationScott Richardson
Gain insights and learn real-world strategies and techniques for leading an enterprise or divisional Agile transformation as an executive or senior leader of a large organization.
Your Journey to Cloud-Native Begins with DevOps, Microservices, and ContainersAtlassian
Everyone is excited about cloud-native applications. And for good reason! They're scalable, resilient, portable across cloud environments, and make it easier to incorporate customer feedback quickly. But there's a catch: cloud-native applications fundamentally change the way you provision, deploy, and manage your infrastructure.
That's where DevOps, microservices, and containers come in. This session will show you how to combine them to create a highly-automated continuous delivery platform. By streamlining the process to resemble factory assembly lines, you can adapt quickly to market changes and keep your customers happy – without burning your team out.
Have you tried assessing the maturity of your Agile teams? Have you developed your own unique approach or adopted an approach found online? Have you found the assessments valuable and continued them?
This material introduces a very simple, straightforward approach for Agile and Scrum maturity assessments without the complexity and pitfalls of numerous more sophisticated approaches.
The author has used five different approaches to assess Agile maturity over the past decade, three developed by Agile coaching staff and two developed by himself, before adopting this simpler retrospective Agile maturity assessment.
Shared at Agile New England as an Agile 101 topic in June 2023.
Continuous Delivery presents a compelling vision of builds that are automatically deployed and tested until ready for production.
Most teams aren't there yet. Some never want to go that far. Others want to push the envelope further.
This deck presents a model for scoring yourself on the continuum and examples of how companies can decide what parts of CD to adopt first, later and not at all.
What are the Tools & Techniques in Agile Project Management?Tuan Yang
Organizations, teams and even project management software are increasingly responding to a demand for more adaptive and evolutionary processes. In a fast-changing business world that needs to respond to rapid market and technology shifts, Agile delivers. Agile project management provides numerous benefits to organizations, project teams, and products.
Learn more about:
» Set up an Agile project.
» Assign roles and responsibilities.
» Create a prioritized list of requirements.
» Define increments and timeboxes.
» Manage a Solution Development Team or Teams.
» Use Agile techniques such as Feature Driven Development.
» Present the benefits of Agile approaches to Senior Management.
Market Trends: What new developments are shaping the way teams work?
Replacing HP Quality Center?: What hurdles are typically faced in replacing legacy Test Management?
Moving Beyond HP Unified Functional Tester?: What options exist to move to more modern automation tools?
Migration Best Practices: How are leading companies making the switch?
Lean Solutions – Agile Transformation at the United States Postal ServiceITSM Academy, Inc.
The postal business is changing at a rapid pace and the Postal Service must continue to change quickly to remain relevant and competitive in the marketplace. The Postal Service implemented the Agile methodology, replacing the traditional waterfall methodology to improve project communication, increase customer satisfaction, realize business benefits quickly, and improve overall quality. Please join us as Mark outlines the challenges Postal faced before using Agile, how Agile has been implemented across the enterprise, lessons learned, benefits and where they are headed next with Agile Transformation.
The increase in use of Agile methodology to deliver large projects has changed the way the industry looks as testing. The skill set required for Agile testing is vastly different from what the current crop of testers are used to.
Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite - Developer Circle Part-1.pdfDiana Gray, MBA
Test Suite Product Overview
In Part 1 of Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite - Developer Series, we'll cover,
-What is Software Testing
-Why Software Testing is Required
-Typical Test Types and Levels
-Continuous Testing and Challenges
-Introduction to UiPath Test Suite
Test Suite and UiPath Automation Platform
Speaker: Atul Trikha
What is DevOps? How can it impact my Customers and my BusinessQualitest
QualiTest and Kubisys help clarify and explain what DevOps can do for you and your business. Experts will shed light on the purpose, the target, the goal and how DevOps can improve your testing process.
For more information visit: www.QualiTestGroup.com
Zero touch QA automation platform for DevOpsTaUB Solutions
Presentation based on the Award Winning Paper by Varadarajan Srinivasan on Zero Touch QA Automation Platform at STC Nov 2018.
Companies that are in DevOps Journey go through a rough weather in QA Automation initiatives. With the industry transformation to Digital Trend, there is always a need for an efficient streamlined Continuous Delivery.
This Webinar would talk about Zero Touch QA Automation Platform. It deals with the Solution on Integrated DevOps & Quality Approach. This would consist of Artificial Intelligence in Reporting and Data Visualization. The Complete QA Cycle is automated from Test Design to Test Closure with Continuous Monitoring, involving no manual intervention. The Webinar would also give insights on Business benefits/outcome on adopting this approach with streamlined Governance.
At heart, Lean is about working to create resilient, adaptive organizations. Crucially, the work of getting better is never done. In this class we’ll try out techniques for continuous improvement from the Lean management philosophy including retrospectives and the improvement kata, and discuss how to apply them in the context of product development.
How Applied Materials Deploys Faster SAP® Projects and Boosts Quality with Wo...Worksoft
How Applied Materials Deploys Faster SAP® Projects and Boosts Quality with Worksoft Test Automation
https://www.worksoft.com/events/how-applied-materials-deploys-faster-sap-projects-and-boosts-quality-with-test-automation
Eliminate Bottlenecks in Software Development & DeliveryMicro Focus
Great approach demonstrated via slides from a recent @archie_borland @MarkKulak webinar for Borland Software.
Key take-aways:
- Agile is filled with benefits, but has some unintended consequences which “bottleneck” delivery
- The market trend has this getting worse – backed by analysts & customers
- Take practical steps now to overcome with a few key process improvements to eliminate
The frantic pace of change, driven by mobile, cloud and the rise of the consumer, is introducing new levels of complexity to the software industry and forces organizations into more fragmented ways of working. Today's development managers are subjected to constant change that they cannot control, yet must manage, and are responsible for delivering the applications their customers need at an unprecedented scale and pace. To stay relevant and meet customer demand in the face of constant change requires a truly optimized approach.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
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/
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
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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.
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.
2. Gary Gruver:
• 24 year veteran in high tech
• Led HP’s 400+ developers on a
journey from waterfall to agile
development
• Currently VP of
QE, Release, and Operations
at Macys.com
3. 4+ Year Large-Scale Agile Journey
400+ engineers
around the world
Over 10M lines of code
High-end
LaserJet
printers and
MFPs
Embedded SW
& FW
Digital Sending
and HP open
Extensibility
Platform
4. State of the Development Process: 2008
•
Lengthy Build
Integration &
Testing Cycles
6 weeks + to get through a complete testing
cycle (mainly manual)
•
Build integration taking 15-20% of resources a
week to get fixes to main
•
Manual testing a key driver and constraint for
adding products
•
Products
Lagging the
Competition
Ongoing customer issues with consistency
and lack of features
•
Marketing had essentially given up asking
for FW innovations
5. State of the Development Process: 2008
•
•
Up to 10 different branches (driven by each
product release window) in MFP
•
Costs out of
control
Development costs growing 2.5X from 20042008 and the business was
still constrained
CPE driving millions/year in CPE investments
•
Couldn’t Add
Enough
Resources
80-90% of resources just porting existing
FW to new products and qualifying
•
Unable to add new products to the plans
due to lack of FW resources
•
20% of resources developing plans that
quickly became obsolete
6. Firmware Development Transformation
Integrated
Tools
Consistent Dev
Environment
Agile
Development
with Mini
Milestones
(Sprints)
Fully automated
unit and
system test
Organizational
Change
Management
Continuous
integration and
test system
Architected for
product
variability
One branch for
all products
including CPE
7. Breakthrough Capacity Transformation
Firmware Development for Development
New Customer
Capabilities
FutureSmart
FW Large Scale
Agile
Development
Engine
Defect
Fixes
•
•
•
•
•
•
400+ developers
10+M LOC
75,000-100,000 LOC turmoil
100-150 Commits
10-15 builds /day
15,000 hours/day of testing
(90% pass rate)
8. Cycletime Driver Improvements
2008
2011
Build Bosses 1 Week
Continuous Integration 3hrs
Number of Builds 1-2
Continuous Integration 10-15/Day
Feedback on Main 1 Commit/Day
Autorevert ~100 Commits/Day
Full Manual Registration 6 Weeks
Auto Regression Testing 24 Hrs
9. Development Cost Driver Improvements
2008
2011
Code Integration 10%
Continuous Integration 2%
Detailed Planning 20%
Agile Planning 5%
Porting Code 25%
One Main Branch 15%
Current Product Support 25%
One Branch CPE 5%
Manual Testing 15%
Most Testing Automated 5%
Capacity for Innovation ~5%
Capacity for Innovation ~40%
10. State of the art FW development model
2008
2011
Costs out of control
~70% reduction in FW
development cost per program
Couldn’t add resources fast enough
50% reduction in FW headcount
Lengthy build, integration
and testing cycles
Cont. integration, daily
automated regression
Products lagging the competition
Vintage chart unleashed
and capacity for innovation
14. Improvements Best Driven at the
Enterprise Level
✔
Business
Objectives/
Priorities
✔
Enterprise
Level
Continuous
Improvement
✔
✔
CI/CD and test
automation
infrastructure
Planning
Process
15. Business Objectives (Don’t “Do Agile”)
Define
Understand your
Either automate, eliminate, orcost & cycle-time the
engineer out
your value
proposition
drivers
drivers that aren’t key to the value prop
16. Business Objectives (Don’t “Continuous Delivery”)
Increase the quality and frequency of feedback
Reduce the time and resources between release branch & production
Improve deployment repeatability
17. Interative Approach to Agile Management
Mini-milestone
Objectives
Agile Adjustments
Cascading Objectives
to Track Progress
Having real-time
metrics is essential for
the speed of agile &
aligning the org.
But don’t manage by
metrics.
Use the metrics to
understand where to
have conversations
about what is not
getting done.
Learnings
Conversations
22. Building up a Large SW System
Agile
Comp 4
Agile
Comp 2
Agile
Comp 5
Agile
Comp 3
Agile
Comp 6
Legacy
Waterfall
IT 1
Interface Test Simulator
Agile
Comp 1
Legacy
Waterfall
IT 2
Legacy
Waterfall
IT 3
23. One of the biggest challenges with
Agile Planning at the enterprise
level is getting the organization to
accept the uncertainty in SW
development and appreciate the
flexibility and opportunity.
24. Long Term Predictability for SW Schedules
Do we really need the predictability of our current planning processes?
Are our current planning processes really that accurate?
Accuracy
100%
Planning Investment
25. A Practical Approach to
Large Scale Agile Development
E-mail: gbgruver@gmail.com
Blog: largescaleagile.com
Twitter: @GRUVERGary