ncorporating DevOps – The Phoenix Project Simulation
Businesses are demanding ever shorter release cycles for new applications. Traditionally ‘Operations’ is seen as a barrier with lengthy bureaucratic controls and delays in provisioning production systems. DevOps is a growing movement for shortening development and deployment and integrating Development and Operations. However, this requires a mind-set shift, new behaviours and a cultural shift in both Development and Operations. Traditionally suspicious of each other, they must now work closely together. Yet many companies are struggling to adopt and deploy DevOps and how to change the culture.
The “Phoenix Project” Simulation game is based upon The Phoenix Project. Parts Unlimited is in trouble. Newspaper reports reveal the poor financial performance of the organisation. The only way forward to not only save the company but to make it competitive and profitable is “The Phoenix Project” which represents an IT enabled business transformation, with Retail Operations as the business owner of this project. The VP of IT Operations is asked to take the lead of the IT department and ensure that “The Phoenix Project” will be a success. But the VP of IT Operations is facing a tremendous amount of work. A huge backlog of issues, features and projects. Are you up for the challenge…?
Teaching Elephants to Dance (and Fly!) A Developer's Journey to Digital Trans...Burr Sutter
We can be brilliant developers, but we won’t succeed—and won’t lead our organizations to succeed—without a new perspective (if you will) and new assumptions about the components of the “technology ecosystem” that are fundamentally critical to our success. This includes the operators, QA team, DBAs, security folks, and even the pure business contingent—in most cases, each of these individuals and groups plays a critical role in the success of what we create and give birth to as developers. What we do in isolation might be genius, but if we insulate ourselves—especially with arrogance—from these colleagues, neither our code nor our organizations will realize their full potential, and most will fail. The bottom line is that our old ways are no longer viable, and as the elite within our industry, we will be the leaders and heroes who discard old assumptions and adopt a new perspective in this exciting journey to digital transformation—where the impossible can become reality.
DevOps – the future of Agile – why, what, how? Agile Israel 2014Yuval Yeret
DevOps is the new favorite buzzword in many organizations. We will understand what it is all about, why it is necessary and what makes it so popular, how it is related to Agile, some pitfalls/myths, and most importantly some concrete steps organizations can take to become a more DevOps-oriented organization and enjoy benefits like more frequent less painful software deployments and operation and better collaboration between Dev and Ops organizations.
http://agileisrael2014.com/devops-the-future-of-agile/
Teaching Elephants to Dance (and Fly!) A Developer's Journey to Digital Trans...Burr Sutter
We can be brilliant developers, but we won’t succeed—and won’t lead our organizations to succeed—without a new perspective (if you will) and new assumptions about the components of the “technology ecosystem” that are fundamentally critical to our success. This includes the operators, QA team, DBAs, security folks, and even the pure business contingent—in most cases, each of these individuals and groups plays a critical role in the success of what we create and give birth to as developers. What we do in isolation might be genius, but if we insulate ourselves—especially with arrogance—from these colleagues, neither our code nor our organizations will realize their full potential, and most will fail. The bottom line is that our old ways are no longer viable, and as the elite within our industry, we will be the leaders and heroes who discard old assumptions and adopt a new perspective in this exciting journey to digital transformation—where the impossible can become reality.
DevOps – the future of Agile – why, what, how? Agile Israel 2014Yuval Yeret
DevOps is the new favorite buzzword in many organizations. We will understand what it is all about, why it is necessary and what makes it so popular, how it is related to Agile, some pitfalls/myths, and most importantly some concrete steps organizations can take to become a more DevOps-oriented organization and enjoy benefits like more frequent less painful software deployments and operation and better collaboration between Dev and Ops organizations.
http://agileisrael2014.com/devops-the-future-of-agile/
DOES SFO 2016 - Greg Padak - Default to OpenGene Kim
Large enterprises have hierarchical organizations to define areas of responsibility and drive better accountability. Those structures often block cross-team interactions and knowledge sharing that slow innovation and agility. We will discuss strategies that use open platforms to drive meaningful development outcomes through collaboration and productivity across the enterprise.
DOES15 - Elisabeth Hendrickson - Its All About FeedbackGene Kim
Elisabeth Hendrickson, VP of Engineering, Pivotal’s Big Data Suite
Fifteen years ago I was running a traditional QA department, and I had a horrifying realization: the better I got at my job, the worse I made things for the organization as a whole. This counter-intuitive realization spurred me on a journey to understand the relationship between testing and quality, and ultimately to the study of feedback loops in software development processes. Ultimately I found my way to Extreme Programming, and now work at Pivotal where we practice a particularly opinionated form of it. In this talk you’ll hear about my journey from the traditional silos with inherently long feedback latency to my current reality of increasingly tight feedback loops, and the lessons I’ve learned along the way.
From Zero to Continuous Validated Learning: Lean Startup on PaaSChris Sterling
This is a journey from idea to "validated learning”, implementing an idea and measuring for its expected effect on behavior. Cloud computing, Agile software development, and Lean Startup have all contributed to lowering the cost of learning and accelerating time to market for businesses. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is further accelerating the validated learning cycles in application development to increase successful business outcomes. We will show how to use Cloud Foundry as a PaaS and a Lean Startup approach to take us from zero to a valuable platform that helps us inspect and adapt our business based on validated learning.
* Using Lean Canvas to identify our first experiment
* Developing a Landing Page MVP application to run the first experiment
* Deploying to Cloud Foundry, a Platform as a Service (PaaS), for executing the experiment
* Measure the results of the experiment
* Reviewing the Lean Canvas to decide what we need to learn next
* Use a Blue/Green Deployment approach for updating our application
1 year has passed since my Devops laboratory talk in Devopsdays Melbourne and we haven't stopped experimenting. After all the buzz and great conversations at Devops days I decided to extend the talk with a few more experiments on top of the previous presentation. This talk was first presented in Last.conf Melbourne on June 2016. The objective is no matter were your company is in terms of adopting a Devops culture/mindset there is always opportunities to try something new.
The experiments covered include:
E0. At the beginning, there was devs and ops
E1. Placements
E2. The tooling team (code name Gandalf)
E3. Secondments
E4. Ops as an attribute of Business areas
E5. The era of Guilds
E6. The raise of the Delivery Engineering teams
E7. Sec + DevOps
E8. Leverage vs Autonomy
E9. Finance + DevOps
E10. ????
DOES16 London - Jan Schilt - DevOps Is Not Going to Work: The Phoenix Project...Gene Kim
DevOps is not going to work…. Unless! How The Phoenix Project Simulation Can Help
Jan Schilt, Owner Founder, GamingWorks BV
This presentation will explore how the business simulation game “The Phoenix Project” based on the book of the same name can greatly improve the success of your DevOps investment. As case studies reveal there are enormous benefits to be realized by adopting DevOps, however industry trends reveal that many will fail as a result of ‘Cultural and behavioral issues and failing to adequately address organizational change. We have seen with ITIL how many organizations failed to gain the promised benefits because they could not translate the theory into practice and the belief that a tool would solve all their issues. Let us not make the same mistakes with DevOps. In this presentation we will show you how a business simulation can increase the velocity of your adoption, create buy-in, improve communication and collaboration skills between Dev and Ops, and capture concrete, shared, improvement actions aimed at creating success.
DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
Moving forward in your DevOps journey—What's your next step after CA World?CA Technologies
A perspective from within CA Technologies on where to start and how to progress in your DevOps journey to ultimately become successful in today's application economy.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
DOES16 London - Scott Potter - DevOps: To Autonomy and BeyondGene Kim
Scott Potter, (former) Head of Digital Engineering, News UK
Transitioning to an organisational structure, a set of skills and capabilities and the desired motivation & behaviours is just the start. Once you start reaping the benefits, your job isn't done.
Scott shares some of his own experiences from the journey that he and his teams took through a DevOps transition, and the role that management took to support the creation of independent teams.
DOES16 London - Jonathan Fletcher - Re-imagining Hiscox IT: A DevOps StoryGene Kim
Re-imagining Hiscox IT: A DevOps Story
Jonathan Fletcher, Enterprise Architect & Platform Services lead, Hiscox
Description:
DevOps at Hiscox is a journey without an obvious destination! Come and hear about why this is so important to them and how its redefining much of what they do. In this session, we'll examine some practises for making a start with DevOps and what it's like to be the annoying guy that's driving things forward.
DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
DOES16 San Francisco - Damon Edwards - The Talent You Need is Already Inside ...Gene Kim
The Talent You Need is Already Inside Your Company
Damon Edwards, Co-Founder, SimplifyOps, Inc
“Buy vs Build” is a decision made all throughout an enterprise. We vigorously debate either position when it comes to our technology and tools. But what about our people? Conventional wisdom holds that, if an enterprise seeks a transformation, it must go into “buy” mode and acquire as much talent as possible from the outside. However, in reality this is an expensive strategy with a low success rate. Putting aside the obvious problem of there being a very limited number of “the best” to spread across an entire industry, the “buy” strategy is still largely based on hope. You hope that the new people will bring the right ideas that will automatically spread. You hope that the new people will have experience that can be translated to your business. But, more often than not, the hope of the income new is undermined and overwhelmed by the same systemic issues that caused your current problems. This talk is about a tactical set of actions that leaders can take to find and fix their company’s systemic issues. If you fix the system, you’ll be able to de-risk the new. If you fix the system, you’ll find a truth that just isn’t discussed: the talent you need to succeed is already inside your company.
DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
The WHY of DevOps (revised for DevOps Enthusiast Meetup London)DevOpsGroup
The WHY of DevOps (revised for DevOps Enthusiast Meetup London)
Why we need news ways of delivering products and IT to create business value.
Why Devops might be part of your answer!
from 0 to continuous delivery in 30 minutesAgileSparks
In this session we will explore the full continuous delivery cycle from check-in to production using set of popular tools. During the session the attendees will be introduced to a set of tools and practices that enable continuous delivery from the technical point of view.
DOES16 London - Benjamin Wootton - Lessons from 50 Enterprise DevOps Transfor...Gene Kim
Mr. Benjamin Wootton, Co-Founder, Sendachi
Over the last few years, we have worked on over 50 DevOps transformations, in many instances with large, global, traditional enterprise organisations.
During this time, we have gained hard won experience in how to be successful in modernising organisations to DevOps—changing working practices, re-structuring organisations, and re-platforming legacy technology stacks to benefit from infrastructure as code and other DevOps practices.
In this talk we will talk about our experiences and hard won lessons of how to be successful with a DevOps transformation, with many real world case studies referenced.
DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
My 'Phoenix Project'—One Developer's Evolutionary JourneyBurr Sutter
What do Gene Kim and his apparent doppelgänger Burr Sutter have in common beyond strikingly similar goatees? DevOps. Building on Kim's iconic tech novel 'The Phoenix Project,' this lightning talk for All Things Open (with opensource.com) highlights Sutter's own 'Phoenix Project' DevOps experience earlier in his career. "We quickly understood that the only way out was forward—together—devs, ops, DBAs, and our business people—the whole team. We hero'ed up, worked in a fundamentally new way, and succeeded at the the impossible." Follow Burr on Twitter @BurrSutter
Bring Down the Wall of Confusion with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Simulation GameDana Pylayeva
Slides for a DevOps transformation simulation workshop from Scrum Gathering Prague 2015. An Agile game that engages all 5 senses and helps participants embrace DevOps culture.
DOES SFO 2016 - Greg Padak - Default to OpenGene Kim
Large enterprises have hierarchical organizations to define areas of responsibility and drive better accountability. Those structures often block cross-team interactions and knowledge sharing that slow innovation and agility. We will discuss strategies that use open platforms to drive meaningful development outcomes through collaboration and productivity across the enterprise.
DOES15 - Elisabeth Hendrickson - Its All About FeedbackGene Kim
Elisabeth Hendrickson, VP of Engineering, Pivotal’s Big Data Suite
Fifteen years ago I was running a traditional QA department, and I had a horrifying realization: the better I got at my job, the worse I made things for the organization as a whole. This counter-intuitive realization spurred me on a journey to understand the relationship between testing and quality, and ultimately to the study of feedback loops in software development processes. Ultimately I found my way to Extreme Programming, and now work at Pivotal where we practice a particularly opinionated form of it. In this talk you’ll hear about my journey from the traditional silos with inherently long feedback latency to my current reality of increasingly tight feedback loops, and the lessons I’ve learned along the way.
From Zero to Continuous Validated Learning: Lean Startup on PaaSChris Sterling
This is a journey from idea to "validated learning”, implementing an idea and measuring for its expected effect on behavior. Cloud computing, Agile software development, and Lean Startup have all contributed to lowering the cost of learning and accelerating time to market for businesses. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is further accelerating the validated learning cycles in application development to increase successful business outcomes. We will show how to use Cloud Foundry as a PaaS and a Lean Startup approach to take us from zero to a valuable platform that helps us inspect and adapt our business based on validated learning.
* Using Lean Canvas to identify our first experiment
* Developing a Landing Page MVP application to run the first experiment
* Deploying to Cloud Foundry, a Platform as a Service (PaaS), for executing the experiment
* Measure the results of the experiment
* Reviewing the Lean Canvas to decide what we need to learn next
* Use a Blue/Green Deployment approach for updating our application
1 year has passed since my Devops laboratory talk in Devopsdays Melbourne and we haven't stopped experimenting. After all the buzz and great conversations at Devops days I decided to extend the talk with a few more experiments on top of the previous presentation. This talk was first presented in Last.conf Melbourne on June 2016. The objective is no matter were your company is in terms of adopting a Devops culture/mindset there is always opportunities to try something new.
The experiments covered include:
E0. At the beginning, there was devs and ops
E1. Placements
E2. The tooling team (code name Gandalf)
E3. Secondments
E4. Ops as an attribute of Business areas
E5. The era of Guilds
E6. The raise of the Delivery Engineering teams
E7. Sec + DevOps
E8. Leverage vs Autonomy
E9. Finance + DevOps
E10. ????
DOES16 London - Jan Schilt - DevOps Is Not Going to Work: The Phoenix Project...Gene Kim
DevOps is not going to work…. Unless! How The Phoenix Project Simulation Can Help
Jan Schilt, Owner Founder, GamingWorks BV
This presentation will explore how the business simulation game “The Phoenix Project” based on the book of the same name can greatly improve the success of your DevOps investment. As case studies reveal there are enormous benefits to be realized by adopting DevOps, however industry trends reveal that many will fail as a result of ‘Cultural and behavioral issues and failing to adequately address organizational change. We have seen with ITIL how many organizations failed to gain the promised benefits because they could not translate the theory into practice and the belief that a tool would solve all their issues. Let us not make the same mistakes with DevOps. In this presentation we will show you how a business simulation can increase the velocity of your adoption, create buy-in, improve communication and collaboration skills between Dev and Ops, and capture concrete, shared, improvement actions aimed at creating success.
DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
Moving forward in your DevOps journey—What's your next step after CA World?CA Technologies
A perspective from within CA Technologies on where to start and how to progress in your DevOps journey to ultimately become successful in today's application economy.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
DOES16 London - Scott Potter - DevOps: To Autonomy and BeyondGene Kim
Scott Potter, (former) Head of Digital Engineering, News UK
Transitioning to an organisational structure, a set of skills and capabilities and the desired motivation & behaviours is just the start. Once you start reaping the benefits, your job isn't done.
Scott shares some of his own experiences from the journey that he and his teams took through a DevOps transition, and the role that management took to support the creation of independent teams.
DOES16 London - Jonathan Fletcher - Re-imagining Hiscox IT: A DevOps StoryGene Kim
Re-imagining Hiscox IT: A DevOps Story
Jonathan Fletcher, Enterprise Architect & Platform Services lead, Hiscox
Description:
DevOps at Hiscox is a journey without an obvious destination! Come and hear about why this is so important to them and how its redefining much of what they do. In this session, we'll examine some practises for making a start with DevOps and what it's like to be the annoying guy that's driving things forward.
DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
DOES16 San Francisco - Damon Edwards - The Talent You Need is Already Inside ...Gene Kim
The Talent You Need is Already Inside Your Company
Damon Edwards, Co-Founder, SimplifyOps, Inc
“Buy vs Build” is a decision made all throughout an enterprise. We vigorously debate either position when it comes to our technology and tools. But what about our people? Conventional wisdom holds that, if an enterprise seeks a transformation, it must go into “buy” mode and acquire as much talent as possible from the outside. However, in reality this is an expensive strategy with a low success rate. Putting aside the obvious problem of there being a very limited number of “the best” to spread across an entire industry, the “buy” strategy is still largely based on hope. You hope that the new people will bring the right ideas that will automatically spread. You hope that the new people will have experience that can be translated to your business. But, more often than not, the hope of the income new is undermined and overwhelmed by the same systemic issues that caused your current problems. This talk is about a tactical set of actions that leaders can take to find and fix their company’s systemic issues. If you fix the system, you’ll be able to de-risk the new. If you fix the system, you’ll find a truth that just isn’t discussed: the talent you need to succeed is already inside your company.
DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
The WHY of DevOps (revised for DevOps Enthusiast Meetup London)DevOpsGroup
The WHY of DevOps (revised for DevOps Enthusiast Meetup London)
Why we need news ways of delivering products and IT to create business value.
Why Devops might be part of your answer!
from 0 to continuous delivery in 30 minutesAgileSparks
In this session we will explore the full continuous delivery cycle from check-in to production using set of popular tools. During the session the attendees will be introduced to a set of tools and practices that enable continuous delivery from the technical point of view.
DOES16 London - Benjamin Wootton - Lessons from 50 Enterprise DevOps Transfor...Gene Kim
Mr. Benjamin Wootton, Co-Founder, Sendachi
Over the last few years, we have worked on over 50 DevOps transformations, in many instances with large, global, traditional enterprise organisations.
During this time, we have gained hard won experience in how to be successful in modernising organisations to DevOps—changing working practices, re-structuring organisations, and re-platforming legacy technology stacks to benefit from infrastructure as code and other DevOps practices.
In this talk we will talk about our experiences and hard won lessons of how to be successful with a DevOps transformation, with many real world case studies referenced.
DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
My 'Phoenix Project'—One Developer's Evolutionary JourneyBurr Sutter
What do Gene Kim and his apparent doppelgänger Burr Sutter have in common beyond strikingly similar goatees? DevOps. Building on Kim's iconic tech novel 'The Phoenix Project,' this lightning talk for All Things Open (with opensource.com) highlights Sutter's own 'Phoenix Project' DevOps experience earlier in his career. "We quickly understood that the only way out was forward—together—devs, ops, DBAs, and our business people—the whole team. We hero'ed up, worked in a fundamentally new way, and succeeded at the the impossible." Follow Burr on Twitter @BurrSutter
Bring Down the Wall of Confusion with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Simulation GameDana Pylayeva
Slides for a DevOps transformation simulation workshop from Scrum Gathering Prague 2015. An Agile game that engages all 5 senses and helps participants embrace DevOps culture.
Enterprise Developer Journey to the IoTBurr Sutter
v11 for TriJUG May 18 2015
The current hype around the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to a substantial amount of innovation thanks to open source software, open hardware, open standards, and community inspiration. In this session, we will explore how you can use open source software to incorporate the physical world (the “Things”) into your traditional enterprise IT infrastructure. We will walk the path from a typical enterprise developer’s current focus on web desktop applications to mobile and devices, specifically developer prototyping platforms like Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison, Arduino, Spark Core, and several others. Learn how to connect the physical world to your enterprise backbone via sensors and actuators.
Web Performance Optimisation at times.co.ukStephen Thair
Optimizing dynamic websites like www.thetimes.co.uk and www.thesundaytimes.co.uk isn't an easy task!
Speeding up a site requires a "war plan" and having a clear vision, dedicated team, appropriate tools and most importantly speed comparison data with similar sites.
Mehdi Ali, Optimisation Manager for the Times websites, will show us how this strategy was applied for The Times and Sunday Times sites with great results.
Configuration Management - The Operations Managers ViewStephen Thair
A presentation from the BCS COnfiguration Management Special Interest Group conference 2009. It gives "the other side of the story from a Operation Manager\'s perspective.
How do measure our progress in a journey towards continuous integration? What are other people doing?
This presentation provides an measuring stick for CD Maturity and simple pattern for reviewing your current situation and deciding what to work on next.
Presentation for Devops downunder, aka devopsdays Sydney 2013. What does it mean to be an expert at the art of operations? How do we learn such things? Can we run firedrills like a D&D campaign?
Watch the recorded version of this Webinar here:
Curious about Continuous Integration? Tune in!
Continuous Integration (CI), which is a big part of continuous delivery, is the concept of continuously building and testing software using an automated process. We have learned that utilizing CI could help us catch bugs earlier, enable better visibility, reduce repetitive processes, enable the development team to produce deployable products at a moment's notice, and reduce risk overall.
These slides will identify the various levels of continuous integration and delivery with regards to a release maturity of the development team or parent organization.
DOES16 San Francisco - Jan Schilt - DevOps is Not Going to Work…Unless! How T...Gene Kim
DevOps is Not Going to Work…Unless! How The Phoenix Project Simulation Can Help
Jan Schilt, Founder, GamingWorks
This presentation will explore how the business simulation game “The Phoenix Project” based on the book of the same name can greatly improve the success of your DevOps investment. As case studies reveal there are enormous benefits to be realized by adopting DevOps, however industry trends reveal that many will fail as a result of ‘Cultural and behavioral’ issues and failing to adequately address organizational change. We have seen with ITIL how many organizations failed to gain the promised benefits because they could not translate the theory into practice and the belief that a tool would solve all their issues. Let us not make the same mistakes with DevOps. In this presentation we will show you how a business simulation can increase the velocity of your adoption, create buy-in, improve communication and collaboration skills between Dev and Ops, and capture concrete, shared, improvement actions aimed at creating success.
DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
Top 5 Myths Of DevOps
Although a fairly new label and not officially coined until a few years ago, the ideals of “DevOps” have been discussed for nearly a decade. Recently, the term DevOps has gained increased popularity, but what does this buzzword really mean? Karen will highlight that DevOps is not a development methodology or technology, rather an ideology; a way to facilitate organisational prosperity and growth while increasing each individual employee's engagement. Some believe that as DevOps has gained prominence, a gap has been created between the original definition of DevOps and this new "enterprise-ready" buzzword.
Accelerate Your Time to a Successful Deployment with DevOpsPerficient, Inc.
According to research firm IDC, 70% of Global Fortune 500 firms are expected to adopt DevOps by the end of 2017. With digital transformation strategies at the forefront of organizational priorities, IT is now under more pressure than ever to optimize innovation cycles while removing roadblocks.
In this IBM / Perficient DevOps SlideShare, we discuss topics including:
The differences between DevOps, Agile, and Waterfall methodologies
How automation can influence your development process, remove roadblocks to innovation, and increase visibility into your projects
Why the DevOps toolchain impacts your entire innovation cycle
DevOps best practices from industry leaders
AMIS 25: DevOps Best Practice for Oracle SOA and BPMMatt Wright
DevOps and Cloud are transforming the software release process, one which spans multiple teams across development and operations (including testing, infrastructure management), into a collaborative process, with all teams working together to deliver solutions into production faster.
This session details how to implement a continuous delivery process for Oracle SOA/BPM projects, both on-premise and in the cloud, which transform the release process into an automated, reliable, high quality delivery pipeline that that deliver projects faster, with less risk and less cost.
It details the processes and best practices that need to be established, how to use tools to automate and govern the build, deployment and configuration of code from our first initial environment through to production.
1. Learn how DevOps and Continuous Delivery can stream-line the delivery of integration / bpm projects into production.
2. Learn how DevOps plus the Cloud service can accelerate the implementation of on-premise Oracle SOA .
3. Learn best practice for implementing DevOps or Continuous Delivery for Oracle SOA projects on-cloud and on-premise.
4. How to use tools to automate and govern the build, deployment and configuration of code from dev through to production
5. How to leverage the Cloud for Dev and Test, and the benefits this provides.
These are the slides used in my #devone (www.devone.at) keynote presentation:
DevOps is one of the most abused and overrated marketing terms in the last years! That’s not an alternative fact! It’s just Andi’s opinion! Yet - it is a very real thing that allowed many software companies to transform the way they think about software engineering. DevOps can mean something totally different thought depending on who you are and what type of business your company is doing. To clarify things, Andi gives us insights on how he explains the benefits to “DevOps Newbies” and how software companies around the world implement it in their own ways. Andi will answer: What does it really mean for developers, testers and operators? What will change? How does Facebook deploy twice a day without big issues? How does DevOps work in financial, government or healthcare where you have tight regulations? Does it mean Devs are responsible for Ops? Does it only work in the cloud? Or can we apply it to “old fashioned” on premise software as well? Learn for yourself and make up your own mind on whether DevOps is just a marketing term or something that can benefit you!
Continuous Testing: A Key to DevOps SuccessTechWell
As IT organizations adopt a DevOps strategy, continuous testing (CT) becomes a key ingredient of the DevOps ecosystem. CT enables faster release cycles, more changes per release, upfront isolation of risks, and reduced operations costs. The approach to scale the traditional automation testing infrastructure, test environments, and test data management requires a culture shift using new tools and techniques. Sujay Honnamane discusses a CT strategy for aspiring and already implemented DevOps organizations. Sujay shares examples of tools, techniques, and practical solutions that include continuous integration using the Jenkins CI server, service virtualization through CA Lisa tools, automated code coverage analysis to create impact-based tests, automated test script load balancing for effective use of test environments, and faster test cycles, providing a holistic approach/workflow for CT. Sujay and his teams have successfully implemented CT for several clients in their DevOps journey to achieve a repeatable and highly predictable software delivery process.
SD DevOps Meet-up - Exploring Quadrants of DevOps MaturityBrian Dawson
his is a presentation given at the March 16th San Diego DevOps Meet-up , which maps the enterprise DevOps journey to 4 quadrants of maturity and covers practical process, tools and leadership strategies for "crossing the chasm" from an organization's current quadrant to the next level of maturity.
Behind the Book: Gene Kim's Top Takeaways from Researching and Writing 'The D...XebiaLabs
The secure and effective management of technology is more critical than ever for business competitiveness. In the new bestseller, The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations, Gene Kim and his co-authors shed light on how high-performing organizations are using DevOps principles to routinely and reliably deploy code into productions hundreds, if not thousands, of times per day.
What metrics matter from deploys per day, developer productivity and reduced feedback cycles to employee satisfaction and burnout
Striking the right balance between automation and manual steps and the role value stream mapping can play in achieving performance breakthroughs
Conway’s Law and how it's applied to change technology work processes
Integrating infosec into the daily work of Dev, Test and Ops
Common challenges encountered in automated testing and ways to overcome them
RightScale Webinar: The DevOps Debate - Is the Enterprise Ready?RightScale
A heated debate is underway on whether DevOps is a viable option for the enterprise. Dissidents cite that the success of the DevOps model is not just dependent on having the right people and tools, but an agile organization and culture of collaboration rarely found outside of startups. Join our expert panel including Gene Kim, one of the original thought leaders and early pioneers of DevOps, for a lively discussion.
DEVNET-2015 DevOps In Depth - Damon Edwards on DevOps Kaizen: Building an Ent...Cisco DevNet
Damon Edwards will be discussiong DevOps Kaizen: Building an Enterprise’s Capability to Change -- There are plenty of aspirational DevOps stories about organizations achieving blistering speed and dazzling nimbleness. But when you look at your own organization everything feels complicated, contentious, and stuck. How do you get started? How do you overcome the silos, the legacy, the entrenched behaviors? This talk is about starting and sustaining a DevOps transformation in large and complex of organizations using a methodical -- and totally reasonable -- Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) approach. This talk isn't about mythical silver bullets. It's about real examples of enterprises that learned to fix themselves by taking a fresh look at proven techniques
The Business Value of a PaaS (presented by Kieron Sambrook Smith, Chief Comme...eZ Systems
How can you introduce regime change across IT development and operations that could deliver positive effects on your live business services? In this session, you’ll learn how a Platform as a Service (PaaS), like Platform.sh, can give your business wings.
Pink Elephant will be the host of PinkDATA18 on May 10th in Singapore. In this presentation you can find all the information required to become a speaker at our event.
Adopt Adapt and Apply IT Best Practices - David RatcliffePink Elephant
Adopt. Adapt. Apply!
No, this is not just a cute play on words. These particular three words strung together help to convey the notion that successful business results happens when there has been a “fit for purpose” approach applied to Continual Service Improvement (CSI).
The magic of successful execution of any business framework or model happens when organisations become experts at “adopting” and “adapting” best practices to solve their organisation’s challenges. Whether it’s ITIL®, COBIT®, or whatever, this means that to be a highly effective IT manager you need to understand the needs of your business first, and then what processes and guidance would be most valuable to help address those needs. When you boil it down, the challenge to IT organisations is to know the value of a particular framework, and how it can – and more importantly should – be adapted and applied to your environment. That’s when the magic happens!
David is on hand to take you through very important considerations for dealing with the realities of leveraging best practices and delivering business value. He’ll discuss the dangers of “implementing by the book”, and also highlight several important factors to consider for adopting, adapting and applying the guidance to deliver the desired business value.
Project Management and Change Management - Sean LowPink Elephant
Project Management & Change Management: The Value & Challenges Of Integration & Alignment
Join Sean for a highly interactive discussion about the often challenging relationship between Project Management and Change Management. Come prepared to contribute your questions, insights and opinions to this session which will focus on various aspects of this highly engaging topic.
Sean will answer questions like:
1) Should change managers have the authority to say “NO” to project changes?
2) To what extent should projects be exempt from the Change Management process?
3) At what point in a Project Lifecycle should change managers expect project managers to submit requests for change?
4) What roles are designated in ITIL to coordinate change efforts between Project Management and Change Management?
Effective BRM: How To Build An Effective Bridge Between Business and IT - Sur...Pink Elephant
Effective BRM: How To Build An Effective Bridge Between Business & IT.
One challenge for most of today’s organisations is a lack of understanding and partnering between the business and the internal or external service provider organisation. Business Relationship Management (BRM) is a key process that enhances the relationship between the business and service provider organisation. This session will help you understand the importance of BRM and how to forge a successful partnership between the business and the solution provider. You’ll explore the key roles and responsibilities for both BRM and Service Level Management (SLM), the integration between BRM and SLM, the key BRM process activities, and more.
How Public Private Partnerships Change The World - Nick HoultonPink Elephant
How Public Private Partnerships Change The World
Nick Houlton, COO, APMG-International
Growing populations and aging infrastructures are inhibiting the ability of many nations to provide essential public services needed to develop their economies – tackling this infrastructure deficit will require the public and private sectors to work together. Sound structured public private partnerships (PPP) provide an effective solution to this issue – helping governments raise the funds necessary to meet infrastructure demands and stimulate economic development.
Both public and private sectors in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) often lack the ability to formulate, implement and maintain PPPs – causing many projects to fail. Join Nick Houlton as he explains the new PPP certification programme and its supporting guide and how the new qualification helps make the role of PPPs more prominent in enabling delivery of essential services that are key to the UN’s vision of ending extreme poverty.
The APMG PPP Certification Programme is an innovation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Inter-American Development Bank through its Multilateral Investment Fund (IADB through its MIF), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the World Bank Group (WBG) and part funded by the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) with a shared vision of enhancing PPP performance globally.
Continual Service Improvement: A Journey To Service Excellence - David WrightPink Elephant
Continual Service Improvement – A Journey To Service Excellence
Creating the foundation to deliver a world-class service is a challenge that faces every service and support operation. Organisations that have established a well-defined roadmap of continual service improvement, one that covers people, process and technology best practice, are best placed to create business value and service excellence.
Did you know that a framework exists that can help you make the right service improvement choices; a framework that provides you with a brilliant service improvement roadmap to help you create business value and service excellence? Find out how to create your service desk’s CSI journey with David, as he shares his experience of how high performing service desks maximise value through a well-defined actionable framework of continual service improvement.
Service Automation: Enabling The Self Service Generation - Jan-Willem MiddleburgPink Elephant
Service Automation: Enabling The Self Service Generation
In today’s built-on-the-web economy, cloud computing, mobile technologies and the on-demand culture have generated and empowered a whole new generation of IT users who are accustomed to arranging their lives online – The Self Service Generation. IT delivery and support organisations are dealing with an ever more demanding IT user community and ever more demanding Service Level Agreements. In this new online and connected world everything has to happen now! During the last decade, virtually every service provider has made the shift to (partially) online service delivery, yet most organisations have yet to change their support models and do not have adequate answers and time sensitive response tools that can evolve with the changing business demand. The Service Automation Framework provides valuable answers to these questions.
In this session Jan-Willem will explore how your organisation can use the Service Automation Framework and self-service concepts to service the IT user of today and the future. Get ready to dive into the next generation of ITSM and explore the way your organisation can benefit through preparations and adopting these new technologies. Are you ready?
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - Jan-Willem MiddelburgPink Elephant
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
Is it possible that the technology we cannot live without every single day had its beginnings one hundred or even several hundreds of years ago? Yep. Crazy as it sounds there would be no fibre optic cable today without the Gutenberg Bible, no project management without a 17th century Swedish warship, no iPhone or Mac without the office copier, no Internet without a Brooklyn-born pig farmer, and no Wi-Fi without a movie star touted as the “most beautiful woman in the world”.
What do all these connections mean for us today? What knowledge have we gained? What insights have we learned?
Most importantly, what about tomorrow? It is often said that, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Will the next decade simply happen to us? Or can those of us in IT use our understanding of the connections with the past to influence, predict and effectively change our future? Can the history of innovation predict the future of innovation?
How To Succesfully Lead Projects with Professor John Kotter's 8-step ModelPink Elephant
How To Successfully Lead Projects With Professor John P. Kotter’s 8-Step Model
Every IT leader should know about Kotter’s 8-Step Model for leading and implementing change!
Leading Change is recognised as one of the all-time best business books and the definitive work on the subject. Harvard Business School Professor, John P. Kotter, methodically and carefully explains his 8-step process for leading and managing major organisational change in an easy to understand fashion. Leading Change captures his wealth of knowledge and experience working with major companies all over the world. Professor Kotter takes concepts like leadership, urgency, vision, strategy, quick wins, and communication and puts them in well-explained, practical terms that anyone can follow.
If you're a manager at any level of your IT organisation who is currently leading any aspect of a change (and today it’s an ongoing occurrence!), understanding Kotter’s 8-step change process is a must-know, and this is a not-to-be-missed session. Plus, learn how to apply the best practices from this book from one of the world's leading management consultants – Karen Chua. You'll gain huge benefits from her extensive transformation experience as she walks you through several real-world examples for each of the eight steps.
What The CEO Wants You To Know - David RatcliffePink Elephant
What The CEO Wants You To Know
The highly respected author Ram Charan has taught business at Harvard and Northwestern universities. In his best-selling book, he describes universal business principles that help all companies make money. What your CEO wants everyone in his or her organisation to know is how these fundamentals of business work. In this revealing session, David will explain why every senior IT manager needs to understand the key business concepts in Charan’s book, and he’ll also challenge you to think about your IT business planning process to assess whether it is strongly aligned with corporate goals and priorities.
What Is IT4IT? – An Introduction To A New Standard
The IT industry has long lacked a complete end-to-end management standard, one that includes architecture, project, portfolio, service, and operations management. It’s a challenge, one that the IT4IT standard has been designed to address. IT4IT is the first end-to-end, vendor-neutral reference model for IT management and its systems. This session will give you a comprehensive overview on the history, positioning, and content of IT4IT and show you how to make it a reality for your organisation.
Advanced traditional IT departments, with silos organised around deep disciplines, policies, and processes, won’t work for tomorrow’s world. Most IT departments with specialist groups that speak their own dialect, struggle to agree on shared goals and values. Because of this, it’s hard to deliver optimal business outcomes. This session will help you break down the barriers and harness the power of IT4IT, a high-level standard for managing the whole of IT with an enterprise service-centric architecture.
Achieving Business IT Alignment with IT Best PracticesPink Elephant
Achieving Business IT Alignment With IT Best Practices
Experts are now talking about Business and IT Integration or Fusion. Experts are always coming up with trendy new buzzwords and models. It is as if by giving it a new name we can sweep the old one under the carpet and blame our lack of alignment on the old outdated terminology…or framework. Whatever you want to call it, with the increasing demand for IT and the increasing impact and importance of IT for organisations we must bring alignment to a more mature level. Writing this is like living the film "Groundhog Day". Every day you wake up and face the same situation again and again…only with business and IT alignment it seems to be a perennial experience.
The fact that business and IT alignment is STILL an issue implies that existing IT Best Practice frameworks, training and consulting approaches must contribute to achieve the hoped for results… namely alignment. Is it simply an impossible goal? Join Paul Wilkinson in this session as he explains how ITIL, COBIT® and BRM contribute to one common goal: achieving alignment between the world of Business and IT.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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.
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.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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