The document discusses challenges faced by organizations in today's rapidly changing digital environment. It proposes adopting agile thinking and practices across entire organizations to better respond to change. Specific solutions discussed for IT service management include focusing on business outcomes rather than costs, defining IT's contribution to value, and adopting DevOps. Procurement is highlighted as an area needing agile approaches to support flexible, collaborative supplier relationships and value-driven selection of solutions.
Business agility is now widely seen as an important collection of principles, values and practices that together help organisations and the people within them to thrive in a VUCA world. In this interactive workshop from the Association of Business Mentors 2018 London Conference, Geof introduces and explores the key elements of business agility thinking and how to apply it in the way you coach, mentor and advise your clients.
Slides of the 'deep' talk presented @ Agile O'Day 2017 #agileoday on the topic of "Business Agility" - Business agility is the "ability of a business system to rapidly respond to change by adapting its initial stable configuration”
I delivered a guest lecture for the students of the one-year Post Graduate program in Global Supply Chain Management offered by IIM Udaipur. In this talk, I focused on three dimensions of digital journey - technology, process (rather business models) and people.
Business agility is now widely seen as an important collection of principles, values and practices that together help organisations and the people within them to thrive in a VUCA world. In this interactive workshop from the Association of Business Mentors 2018 London Conference, Geof introduces and explores the key elements of business agility thinking and how to apply it in the way you coach, mentor and advise your clients.
Slides of the 'deep' talk presented @ Agile O'Day 2017 #agileoday on the topic of "Business Agility" - Business agility is the "ability of a business system to rapidly respond to change by adapting its initial stable configuration”
I delivered a guest lecture for the students of the one-year Post Graduate program in Global Supply Chain Management offered by IIM Udaipur. In this talk, I focused on three dimensions of digital journey - technology, process (rather business models) and people.
Benjamin C. Anyacho: Help! Managing Projects and Stakeholders from HellLviv Startup Club
Benjamin C. Anyacho: Help! Managing Projects and Stakeholders from Hell
Global Online PMDay
Website - https://opmday.org
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/startuplviv
FB - https://www.facebook.com/edunomicaone
Mike Burrows: Up and down the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation – business a...Lviv Startup Club
Mike Burrows: Up and down the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation – business agility at every scale
Global Online PMDay
Website - https://opmday.org
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/startuplviv
FB - https://www.facebook.com/edunomicaone
In this presentation Senior consultant Geir Stene discuss how to integrate digital collaboration in organizations. What differentiate traditional collaboration tools and these ideas is that it's now possible to use the internet and social media integrated in a whole new set of ways, and enhance many forms of collaborative work in a scale that up till now hasn’t been possible.
June 15, 2010 discussion with the SI KM Leaders about the Knowledge Jam process - a facilitated, conversation-based process for getting out hidden knowledge and putting it to work. (This presentation is best seen in "build" using powerpoint.)
Digital Transformation goes beyond your device and cloud strategy. These are mechanisms with which we deliver our digital assets but do not the actual transformation itself.
This discussion focuses on the essentials to actually transform an enterprise when culture and environments will be barriers to speed of success.
Using learnings from the book, Switch, by Chip & Dan Heath, we see how addressing three separate facets of change are truly necessary for genuine Digital Transformation.
This is a basic discussion for all audiences: business, technical, strategic, and tactical. The slide notes (may need to download to see these) contain details in depth.
This is a presentation on "Lean & Agile Organizational Leadership: History, Theory, Models, & Popular Ideas," which are emerging models for managing high-risk, time-sensitive R&D-oriented new product development (NPD) projects with demanding customers and fast-changing market conditions (at the enterprise, portfolio, and program levels). It establishes the context, provide a definition, and describe the value-system for lean and agile methods, principles, and core ideas. It provides a brief history and comparative analysis of agile methods (i.e., Crystal Methods, Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development Method, Feature Driven Development, and Extreme Programming), project management models (i.e., Radical, Adaptive, Extreme, Agile, and Simplified Agile), and portfolio frameworks (i.e., Enterprise Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework, Large Scale Scrum, Disciplined Agile Delivery, and Recipes for Agile Governance). Then it provides multiple histories of the fields of organizational leadership, administration, and management over the last 100 years. It then introduces, delves into, describes, and provides a brief survey and comparative analysis of emerging theories, models, and methods of lean and agile leadership (i.e., Agile, Employee, Radical, Lean, and Leadership 3.0). Finally, it closes with an expose of the top organizational change paradigms most closely aligned with the field of lean and agile development, project management, and portfolio management methodologies (along with a unique summary of the major tenets, principles, and practices of lean & agile organizational leadership). This briefing has been warmly received by multiple U.S. government agencies, contractors, and university audiences throughout Baltimore-Washington, DC.
This presentation introduces some of the most common reasons why organizations choose to adopt Agile approaches. It presents high level statistics on software development project success to demonstrate why the traditional project management approach may not be suitable for all projects. The presentation introduces what Agile is and the reasons justifying its adoption. Once the Agile concepts have been presented, the material introduces the Scrum approach by giving a walk through of a typical process. The presentation ends with the main impacts on people managers within organizations who are adopting Agile.
Workshop delivered by Craig Smith and Julian Smith at Agility Today 2021 on 27 February 2021.
Today 'agile' is no longer just a buzzword. From building spacecraft to manufacturing, some of the most complex and largest organisations in the world are using agile ways of working to deliver better outcomes, respond to change, improve quality, foster more productive and happier teams, and reduce risk.
This hands-on and interactive session is aimed at helping public sector organisations build capability to support agile ways of working, from policy development through to service design and delivery.
Lisa Hodges of Cornerstone Service Management explains how PRINCE2 – the most widely adopted project management approach in the world – offers a proven, practical approach to organizing, managing, and executing ITIL process improvement projects.
Leading and Managing Through the Design of EnvironmentsMichael Hamman
These slides are from a webinar which George Schlitz and I conducted in February 2013. In this presentation, we talked about 'environment design' as a management practice for catalyzing the capacity for organizational agility.
Environment design constitutes a set of very practical management practices which reflect, nevertheless, a recognition of that social systems (i.e. organizations and companies) are inherently complex and therefore call for an entirely new paradigm for management.
Are we Agile or Fragile? Agile Africa 2017 - Reflections from the IQbusiness ...IQ Business - agility@IQ
IQbusiness and agility@IQbusiness conducted an inaugural State of Agile research report. The attached presentation presents our findings through both quantitative and qualitative research
Agile in Your Life + Building NomNom FinderHala Saleh
A quick overview of agile methodologies and concepts, with an emphasis on how families and students can use it in everyday life. Also used the example of how we built a demo-able app (NomNom Finder) in less than 3 days using agile methods.
Benjamin C. Anyacho: Help! Managing Projects and Stakeholders from HellLviv Startup Club
Benjamin C. Anyacho: Help! Managing Projects and Stakeholders from Hell
Global Online PMDay
Website - https://opmday.org
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/startuplviv
FB - https://www.facebook.com/edunomicaone
Mike Burrows: Up and down the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation – business a...Lviv Startup Club
Mike Burrows: Up and down the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation – business agility at every scale
Global Online PMDay
Website - https://opmday.org
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/startuplviv
FB - https://www.facebook.com/edunomicaone
In this presentation Senior consultant Geir Stene discuss how to integrate digital collaboration in organizations. What differentiate traditional collaboration tools and these ideas is that it's now possible to use the internet and social media integrated in a whole new set of ways, and enhance many forms of collaborative work in a scale that up till now hasn’t been possible.
June 15, 2010 discussion with the SI KM Leaders about the Knowledge Jam process - a facilitated, conversation-based process for getting out hidden knowledge and putting it to work. (This presentation is best seen in "build" using powerpoint.)
Digital Transformation goes beyond your device and cloud strategy. These are mechanisms with which we deliver our digital assets but do not the actual transformation itself.
This discussion focuses on the essentials to actually transform an enterprise when culture and environments will be barriers to speed of success.
Using learnings from the book, Switch, by Chip & Dan Heath, we see how addressing three separate facets of change are truly necessary for genuine Digital Transformation.
This is a basic discussion for all audiences: business, technical, strategic, and tactical. The slide notes (may need to download to see these) contain details in depth.
This is a presentation on "Lean & Agile Organizational Leadership: History, Theory, Models, & Popular Ideas," which are emerging models for managing high-risk, time-sensitive R&D-oriented new product development (NPD) projects with demanding customers and fast-changing market conditions (at the enterprise, portfolio, and program levels). It establishes the context, provide a definition, and describe the value-system for lean and agile methods, principles, and core ideas. It provides a brief history and comparative analysis of agile methods (i.e., Crystal Methods, Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development Method, Feature Driven Development, and Extreme Programming), project management models (i.e., Radical, Adaptive, Extreme, Agile, and Simplified Agile), and portfolio frameworks (i.e., Enterprise Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework, Large Scale Scrum, Disciplined Agile Delivery, and Recipes for Agile Governance). Then it provides multiple histories of the fields of organizational leadership, administration, and management over the last 100 years. It then introduces, delves into, describes, and provides a brief survey and comparative analysis of emerging theories, models, and methods of lean and agile leadership (i.e., Agile, Employee, Radical, Lean, and Leadership 3.0). Finally, it closes with an expose of the top organizational change paradigms most closely aligned with the field of lean and agile development, project management, and portfolio management methodologies (along with a unique summary of the major tenets, principles, and practices of lean & agile organizational leadership). This briefing has been warmly received by multiple U.S. government agencies, contractors, and university audiences throughout Baltimore-Washington, DC.
This presentation introduces some of the most common reasons why organizations choose to adopt Agile approaches. It presents high level statistics on software development project success to demonstrate why the traditional project management approach may not be suitable for all projects. The presentation introduces what Agile is and the reasons justifying its adoption. Once the Agile concepts have been presented, the material introduces the Scrum approach by giving a walk through of a typical process. The presentation ends with the main impacts on people managers within organizations who are adopting Agile.
Workshop delivered by Craig Smith and Julian Smith at Agility Today 2021 on 27 February 2021.
Today 'agile' is no longer just a buzzword. From building spacecraft to manufacturing, some of the most complex and largest organisations in the world are using agile ways of working to deliver better outcomes, respond to change, improve quality, foster more productive and happier teams, and reduce risk.
This hands-on and interactive session is aimed at helping public sector organisations build capability to support agile ways of working, from policy development through to service design and delivery.
Lisa Hodges of Cornerstone Service Management explains how PRINCE2 – the most widely adopted project management approach in the world – offers a proven, practical approach to organizing, managing, and executing ITIL process improvement projects.
Leading and Managing Through the Design of EnvironmentsMichael Hamman
These slides are from a webinar which George Schlitz and I conducted in February 2013. In this presentation, we talked about 'environment design' as a management practice for catalyzing the capacity for organizational agility.
Environment design constitutes a set of very practical management practices which reflect, nevertheless, a recognition of that social systems (i.e. organizations and companies) are inherently complex and therefore call for an entirely new paradigm for management.
Are we Agile or Fragile? Agile Africa 2017 - Reflections from the IQbusiness ...IQ Business - agility@IQ
IQbusiness and agility@IQbusiness conducted an inaugural State of Agile research report. The attached presentation presents our findings through both quantitative and qualitative research
Agile in Your Life + Building NomNom FinderHala Saleh
A quick overview of agile methodologies and concepts, with an emphasis on how families and students can use it in everyday life. Also used the example of how we built a demo-able app (NomNom Finder) in less than 3 days using agile methods.
Presentation from full-stack agile on how you can scale your agile teams as your company grows. As your company grows your teams need to be able to adapt to change quickly.
Inner Source Webinar Series: Open Source Community Development MethodsBlack Duck by Synopsys
In this webinar series, Guy Martin from Red Hat and Andrew Aitken from Black Duck Consulting cover the inner source concept of using open source community-style development methods and best practices in internal IT development organizations.
Let’s take a look at IT agility—with a fresh perspective: through the eyes of a relatively new Java developer. This session dives into how companies are staying competitive by increasing their agility. You may be familiar with traditional SDLC methodology and how many firms are replacing a more rigid/monolithic approach with agile and related iterative methodologies: Scrum, XP, prototyping. An organization can’t just complete a checklist and be “agile.” Some key elements are nonnegotiable; core values and results must be the primary goals. The road to those goals must be adapted to each organization’s own model and culture. Whether you’re a longtime professional, have just joined the field, or are looking for something new, this session may give you thought-provoking perspectives.
Intelligence Data Services is a leading software development company based in the USA, renowned for its cutting-edge solutions and innovative approach. With a strong commitment to excellence, the company specializes in creating bespoke software applications tailored to meet the unique needs of its clients. Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies and a team of highly skilled professionals, Intelligence Data Services delivers high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions across various industries. Their customer-centric approach and dedication to staying ahead of industry trends make them a preferred choice for organizations seeking top-notch software development services in the United States.
In November 2014, I was invited back to MMU to talk about how UX activities can be integrated with Agile software development approaches.
The talk touched on what Agile is, why it exists, and why there's potential for conflict with UX activities. I then talked about the opportunities for getting along with each other to make better products, and practical tips that students might be able to use when working in Agile projects.
Many large IT projects continue to struggle with user adoption, leadership support, and overall stakeholder buy-in. Effective use of Agile best practices is a proven means of addressing these buy-in issues within the IT organization, but what about other departments? In this session, we will discuss how Agile principles can drive an enterprise-wide change management approach in order to better reinforce the transformations taking place in your organization. The goal? Maximize collaboration between IT and the business and break down silos through iterative, incremental progress.
Versioning: It's more than just for software Perforce
Have you ever spent hours working on the wrong version of a document? Worse still, have you sent the wrong copy of a document to a client or the wrong specification to a supplier? What about opening up a PowerPoint presentation in a meeting, only to discover that you forgot to copy the updated version off of your desktop?
You're not alone. In a recent survey carried out by Harris Interactive, these are all common problems that impact 83% of all knowledge workers in today's electronic age. However, less common is the knowledge that these issues could easily be solved by something that software developers have been doing for years. Something called versioning.
These slides illustrate how version management, as a discipline, can be easily used and should be deployed as the norm outside of the development environment.
Putting the Puzzle Together: Integrating Emerging Best PracitcesLean IT Association
As organizations shift gears to accomodate the business need for speed and agility, there is a growing interest in models and methods to accelerate business value generation. However, at the same time, there is growing confusion on how these different models such as Lean, Agile, Project Management, and DevOps connect and how they relate to the principles and practices of IT Service Management.This presentation shows how to leverage each of them to accelerate value creating processes.
Agile methodologies for innovative software development projectsSilvia Fragola
How to select the right projects to apply agile methodologies? One size does not fit all! I'd like to share with you some advices based on my experiences. Enjoy the reading!
Designing Your Team and Organization for InnovationTechWell
If innovation is not part of your team or organizational DNA, your company risks falling behind its competitors, losing market share, and demoralizing your best talent. And yet, you cannot create an innovative organization by simply saying “Be innovative” or adding it to the company values statement. Innovation requires a solid understanding of what motivates people and a deep examination of organizational structure, culture, and leadership styles—such as top-down project control or directive leadership—that may be barriers to innovation. Jim Elvidge explores a path to changing such an environment by improving team empowerment and creating an environment where it is safe to fail. Leaders championing this approach of “environment design” present people with a wider range of learning experiences, resulting in increased responsiveness to change, unleashed creativity, and greater job satisfaction. Learn how to use thinking and analysis tools—including double-loop learning and current reality trees—to find and remove your impediments to innovation.
Embracing Digital Agility_ A Paradigm Shift For IT Consultants.pdfjeyavel3
In an epoch where digital transformation is more than just a buzzword, IT consultants find themselves at the fulcrum of change, aiding organizations in navigating the digital maze.
Do you struggle to figure out how to create long term sustainable change that moves your company into the next generation? This presentation discusses how we take research and move it into action.
Are you an Agile Project Manager or an Agile Project Leader?AdaptiveOrg Inc.
As Agile and agile thinking has continued to gain traction in organizations beyond the software development teams, project managers are left wondering what it all means to them. Some Agile practitioners promote the idea the PMs are no longer needed once you make the transition to using a practice such as Scrum. Does this mean that the PM role will become obsolete in Agile organizations? Or does it mean that the role of traditional project manager needs to transform to being a agile project leader? If you are a PM in an organization making the transition to Agile, come find out what it means to you and what you need to do start the transformation to becoming an Agile Project Leader.
Check out our webinar channel to hear the whole presentation http://www.brighttalk.com/channel/13643/the-agility-series
Using agile for business process design and development oct 19, 2010 ottawaAdaptiveOrg Inc.
Is Agile Scrum just for software development or can it also be used to achieve great business process design and development as well?
Presented to the Ottawa IIBA Chapter on October 19, 2010
This is a presentation I gave at the 2007 PMI NCR Symposium on how to conduct a Project Audit. Contact me at Larry.Cooper@IGPLI.Net if you have questions.
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.
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.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
7. Emerging Realities
Issues shifting from discrete
problems to holistic messes,
requiring collaborative solutions
•Collective intelligence over individual knowledge
•Hierarchies ineffective in decision-making
•New normal – there is no normal
•Can’t use past to predict future
10/3/2013 | Universal Agile Thinking 7
8. New Environment
Organizations have less
control and more change than
ever
Traditional models don’t apply
to new problems
Customers & markets
changing at increasing rate
Innovation requires
independent thought & action
Tolerate ambiguity
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10. NEW SOLUTIONS
Non-traditional approaches are showing up throughout our businesses, governments
and educational institutions
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12. Gore & Associates
“Real conversations happen in the car
pools”
1959 - Bill Gore introduced flat
hierarchy, “lattice management”
“No bosses, job titles, or organization
charts; just sponsors, team members,
& leaders”
CEO selected through peer-driven
process
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Over the past 40+ years,
Gore has grown to an
organization of over 10,000
associates and has been
profitable every year in its
existence, including
through the recessions of
the past 30 years.
13. Non-Traditional Businesses
Ford Motor Company
Blue Cross Blue Shield FEIP
SalesForce
Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLEs)
10/3/2013 | Universal Agile Thinking 13
16. What is Agile?
Defined by
Values
Mindset
10/3/2013 | Universal Agile Thinking 16
Attitudes, culture,
leadership styles, etc.
17. What is Agile?
Defined by
Values
Mindset
10/3/2013 | Universal Agile Thinking 17
Attitudes, culture,
leadership styles, etc.
Agile Manifesto
“Individuals & interactions over processes & tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan…”
http://agilemanifesto.org/
18. What is Agile?
Guided by
Principles
Defined by
Values
Mindset
10/3/2013 | Universal Agile Thinking 18
Attitudes, culture,
leadership styles, etc.
Agile Manifesto
“Individuals & interactions over processes & tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan…”
http://agilemanifesto.org/
19. What is Agile?
Guided by
Principles
Defined by
Values
Mindset
10/3/2013 | Universal Agile Thinking 19
Attitudes, culture,
leadership styles, etc.
Agile Manifesto
“Individuals & interactions over processes & tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan…”
http://agilemanifesto.org/
12 Principles
Satisfy the customer
Welcome changing requirements
Deliver frequently
Sustainable pace
Technical excellence
Self-organizing teams
Reflect & adjust, etc.
http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
20. What is Agile?
Manifested
through
Practices
Guided by
Principles
Defined by
Values
Mindset
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Attitudes, culture,
leadership styles, etc.
Agile Manifesto
“Individuals & interactions over processes & tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan…”
http://agilemanifesto.org/
12 Principles
Satisfy the customer
Welcome changing requirements
Deliver frequently
Sustainable pace
Technical excellence
Self-organizing teams
Reflect & adjust, etc.
http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
21. What is Agile?
Manifested
through
Practices
Guided by
Principles
Defined by
Values
Mindset
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Attitudes, culture,
leadership styles, etc.
Agile Manifesto
“Individuals & interactions over processes & tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan…”
http://agilemanifesto.org/
12 Principles
Satisfy the customer
Welcome changing requirements
Deliver frequently
Sustainable pace
Technical excellence
Self-organizing teams
Reflect & adjust, etc.
http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
Scrum, XP, Lean, DSDM,
Crystal, etc.
23. Goal of Agile
Accelerate speed to Value
by doing Less
~ Pat Reed
This is not “doing more with less” – it means to do only those things that create value!
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24. Practice of Agile
Self-organizing
Highest Value first
Time-boxed
iterations
Continuous delivery
Transparency & integrity
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Customers over bosses
Value Management
over requirements
Simplicity over
complexity
Leadership over
control
Roles over titles
Characterisedby
Emphasizes
25. Philosophy of Agile
Adults enter into contracts,
choose mates, raise children, and make
all sorts of important decisions.
Why do we expect that those very same
adults need close supervision
when they
come to work? ~ Esther Derby
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27. Universal Agile Thinking
Focus on outcomes –
outside-in thinking
Shift from
decision-
making to
discovery
Bring Lean &
Agile to entire
organization
Understand that
ideation &
innovation occur
at all levels
Adopt new
leadership
models
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28. SOLUTIONS FOR ITSM
ITSM leaders and professionals need to understand that IT isn’t separate from the
business; it’s an integral part of the whole
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29. ITSM Changes
IT services increasingly
automated
Ability to synthesize and
apply information
becoming more valued
over domain knowledge
Fewer traditional pure
technical roles in ITSM
Greater emphasis on
business skills over
technical skills
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30. A Shift in Thought Process
To managing
with an
outcomes
(benefits) focus
Shift the focus
from managing
inputs (costs)
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Competition for IT and Business resources
Business Cases not clearly comparable
Alignment between Business and IT strategy unclear
Financial worth open to interpretation
Sponsored by those who ‘do the work’
Unit Mangers and Project Mangers left to “sort it out”
Executive engagement ramps up when project is in trouble
Clear path to understanding the logic and likelihood of
business case benefits
Objective, business Value approach to selection
Sponsored by those who ‘seek the benefits’
Executive decision making “sorts it out”
Executive engagement at beginning where it matters
most
From
ROI
To ROV
(Value)
31. ITSM Business Focus
70 % of IT resources are devoted to operating IT
infrastructure today - by 2020 just 35 % of
resources will be used.
• Know how ITSM supports the organization’s vision
• Understand how IT work will be measured in the context of
the desired outcomes
• Recognize what needs to change to be a successful part of
an organization adopting universal agile thinking
• Realize that Agile is a lot more than just a set of methods
and practices
• Develop interpersonal and team collaboration skills
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32. IT’s Contribution to Value
For strategic and innovative efforts,
all parts of the business need to
participate in defining and
delivering the desired outcomes in
the context of their contribution to
the value management chain
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33. Implications of Change
Systems and
Tools
Process/Roles
Information
Sources
Skills and
Knowledge
Motivation
Talent
Acquisition
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34. DEVOPS
DevOps is the point at which development and operations integrate
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35. DevOps Challenges
Ease of access has
to be balanced
against security
Flexibility is
weighed against
maintainable
production
environments
All with high up-
time requirements
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IT infrastructure inherently contains what seem to be competing goals
38. DevOps – Customer Solutions
Know who your customers are
Make it easier for your customers to do their work
Engage customers in decision-making
• Who will create & deprecate environments?
• How will those environments be managed?
• How closely will your development, testing and production environments
parallel each other?
• Who has access to which layer?
• What is the process from moving through development & testing to
production?
• How are handoffs managed?
• Who is responsible when deployments don’t go as planned?
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39. SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT
Procurement is often the bane of projects and managers in many organizations
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40. Supplier Management
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Monitor
Contract
Business
Outcomes/Constraints
Program
Development
Performance
Improvement
Performance
Management
Supplier
Selection
Performance
Monitoring
Collaboration
Relationship
Management
Business Unit,
Contracting
How are they
doing?
Business Unit,
Contracting
What can they do
better?
Business Unit,
Contracting
Current and
potential suppliers?
Business Unit,
Procurement,
Contracting
Do they meet your
business needs?
Evaluation &
Selection
Performance
Management
Continuous
Improvement
41. Types of ITSM Procurement
Professional Services for Agile Projects
Agile Software Tools
Business Solutions
IT Infrastructure Hardware
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42. Hardware Procurement
Procuring hardware in traditional
organizations can be challenging
Not uncommon to face crippling lead
times following byzantine processes
• 6-8 months to place an order
• 2-6 months to receive the equipment
• Days or weeks to provision it
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43. Professional Services Procurement
Whether the vendor can work in an agile project environment and, if so, how
much experience the vendor has
• Ensuring only vendors with prior successful experience working with clients on Agile projects
are considered
• Ensuring internal and vendor processes and methods are compatible
Terms and conditions and performance criteria
• Updated T&Cs and performance criteria from traditional contracts (need to reflect Agile
metrics)
• Need to accommodate iterative, adaptive, and discovery-based practices
• Fixed-price, Fixed-price with specific deadline, Time-and-materials
Contract close-out
• Formal acknowledgement of what was delivered
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44. Business Solutions Procurement
Ability/in-ability to focus on the “vital few” capabilities
that matter (business value)
• How to avoid procuring 60%+ of capabilities that are rarely or never used
• Tools/techniques that enable collaborative and incremental definition of
what is needed
• Ability to balance technical, security and business considerations
Ability to establish evaluation criteria that are clear,
transparent and relatively easy to asses
• Evaluators and vendors should have same understanding
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45. Agile Software Tools
DevOps and Continuous Integration require sufficient
tooling and Environments
• Automated testing is required to ensure smooth and error-free
migration to production
• Dev, Test and Prod need sufficient resources and Test and Prod need
to be closely mirrored
Agile Tools need to support Agile practices
• Not all things Agile need software tools – white boards and stickies
are can be very effective for the team to manage its work and for
communicating progress to stakeholder
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46. Procurement Implications
Procurement needs to be simpler, faster
& driven by value delivery goals
• Collaborative approach among stakeholders to develop Agile
procurement processes Agile contract provisions
• Collaborative model with vendors after the contract is signed
• Construct procurement processes with outcomes (the vital
few) in mind
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47. RESOURCES
Business solutions are detailed, contextual and require a lot more than an
introductory webinar to resolve – contact us today
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48. Additional Resources
• White papers
– Available in 2-3 weeks
• Infographics
– Agile history
– What is Agile?
– Agile ITSM procurement
– DevOps
• Blog posts
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49. Contact Us
Larry Cooper
President, AthenaNexus
larry.cooper@athenanexus.com
Jen Stone
CEO, AthenaNexus
jen.stone@athenanexus.com
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