Incremental change and release often is the new mantra. A team of one may handle the operability implementation for an application. Work arounds are done to get things out the door “on time” to meet the agile requirements. This person is in the center of changes ensuring that monitoring, configuration, and service expectations are coordinated. As the velocity of change increases, this single point of failure leads to slow downs. The operations engineer is viewed as the “hero” due to working late nights or weekends to keep the service running as needed. This false hero role is not sustainable and creates a rigid environment of change aversion.
In this talk, Jennifer will describe paths to supporting complex project deployment and configuration from manual heroics to minimal intervention. She will describe tools but the concepts will be applicable regardless of environment. This is not a one size fit all solution but guidelines presented should help shape direction towards success.
Topics Covered:
Where are we?
Defining the job of Operations
Identifying achievable goals
Choosing tools
Measuring for success
The key takeaway from this talk will be to help practitioners see how to create a plan towards building a more reliable, consistent, and high-quality service.
Our team uses the Agile process - but Agile needs a meta-process to correct itself and the context/organization/environment in which it works. Here is how we do it. Change agreed upon must be doable and accountable.
Incremental change and release often is the new mantra. A team of one may handle the operability implementation for an application. Work arounds are done to get things out the door “on time” to meet the agile requirements. This person is in the center of changes ensuring that monitoring, configuration, and service expectations are coordinated. As the velocity of change increases, this single point of failure leads to slow downs. The operations engineer is viewed as the “hero” due to working late nights or weekends to keep the service running as needed. This false hero role is not sustainable and creates a rigid environment of change aversion.
In this talk, I will describe paths to supporting complex project deployment and configuration from manual heroics to minimal intervention. I will describe tools but the concepts will be applicable regardless of environment. This is not a one size fit all solution but guidelines presented should help shape direction towards success.
An exploration of the relationship between employee engagement and leadership, and how they might affect quality. Includes references to external sources.
Our team uses the Agile process - but Agile needs a meta-process to correct itself and the context/organization/environment in which it works. Here is how we do it. Change agreed upon must be doable and accountable.
Incremental change and release often is the new mantra. A team of one may handle the operability implementation for an application. Work arounds are done to get things out the door “on time” to meet the agile requirements. This person is in the center of changes ensuring that monitoring, configuration, and service expectations are coordinated. As the velocity of change increases, this single point of failure leads to slow downs. The operations engineer is viewed as the “hero” due to working late nights or weekends to keep the service running as needed. This false hero role is not sustainable and creates a rigid environment of change aversion.
In this talk, I will describe paths to supporting complex project deployment and configuration from manual heroics to minimal intervention. I will describe tools but the concepts will be applicable regardless of environment. This is not a one size fit all solution but guidelines presented should help shape direction towards success.
An exploration of the relationship between employee engagement and leadership, and how they might affect quality. Includes references to external sources.
Stop Chasing Rankings - Start Building Authentic RelationshipsFliptop Media
Scott Eklund teaches Plastic Surgeons and Cosmetic Surgeons how to better market their practice online. Presentation recorded at the 2014 American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery's Annual Conference
How can you keep that Imposter Syndrome at bay?
We are more likely to work harder than our male counterparts and yet we're less likely to believe in our capability for success. This presentation looks to help everyone in tech overcome her or his Imposter Syndrome, empowering you with tricks that can help position you for the right jobs, roles and collaborators in just 15 minutes a day. This will include presenting yourself online in the most favorable (and Googleable) light including branding, image, and social media networks like Twitter and LinkedIn.
Watch the accompanying webinar at https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/43/247985?utm_source=BrightTALK&utm_medium=brighttalk&utm_campaign=247985
The people who will succeed today are those who figure out how to benefit from, or take advantage of, continuous disarray, disorder and disruption. In this webinar, Bill Jensen will identify the habits most necessary for success in today’s world full of disruption. Attendees will learn from disruptive heroes about how they have become masters of disruption simply because they refuse to accept the status quo.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
Five habits most necessary for success in a disruptive world.
The how-tos and why-musts of disruption.
Key lessons from disruptive heroes about how they are changing the game.
Finding My Voice + Learning to Trust my Gut - from LeanIN Toronto LaunchIdeas 2 Propel U
I gave this talk at the LeanIN Toronto Launch party on September 24 to a group of 300 amazing women. It is all about finding your voice and being yourself and not letting anyone else tell you otherwise.
Format: Interactive seminar/workshop
Time: 60 - 90 min
Target Audience: Researchers, Staff members, graduate students (in any)
Learning objectives:
By the end of this session, participant will:
•Understand what imposter fears are and learn to recognize them;
•Be able to identify cognitive distortions that prevent women from taking actions;
•Identify strategies to overcome self-doubt and build resilience.
Presentation about how you can make effect in your organization.
Presented at Agile Tour Toronto, Agile Ottawa and PMI-SOC Professional Development Day.
7 Steps to Becoming a Thought Leader | December 2018BeLeaderly.com
Thought leaders are not just executives any more. You can become one too. In this webinar, learn how to identify your niche, express your expertise in ways that fit your personal style, and become a sought-after expert. You’ll walk away with a practical plan to share your passion and build your personal brand at the same time.
Guest Speakers: Christoph Trappe, Chief Content Engagement Director, Stamats Business Media, author of Get Real: Telling Authentic Stories for Long-term Success and Serpil Bayraktar, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco.
From system performance to application metrics, we continue to further our understanding of what to monitor, why, and how to present it appropriately to the various audiences who need to act on this information. Yet there are things across our environment that we agree we can’t measure because they are unquantifiable. That doesn’t mean that there is zero signal to be analyzed and monitored.
We can look at open source software that is in wide use, yet becomes stale and unusable after years due to the atrophy of maintainers keeping it up to date with security and integrations with other software, or implementation of new features that keep it useful. How do you measure the health of your current implemented software solutions so that you know when to start planning change, or committing intentional time to a project?
In this talk, I’ll tackle these questions in addition to sharing other observations about monitoring within our environments with the goal of inspiring others to examine available signals, their impact, and the value of monitoring.
Are you trying to build cookbooks within your organization but are unclear about how to get your coworkers involved? Maybe you've learned the Chef primitives and architecture but you're not sure how to distill that knowledge into patterns that others can follow? In this collaborative workshop, we will spend the day working together to craft a community cookbook from scratch using both Chef and community resources. In the process, we'll learn some key patterns of DevOps practices.
Stop Chasing Rankings - Start Building Authentic RelationshipsFliptop Media
Scott Eklund teaches Plastic Surgeons and Cosmetic Surgeons how to better market their practice online. Presentation recorded at the 2014 American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery's Annual Conference
How can you keep that Imposter Syndrome at bay?
We are more likely to work harder than our male counterparts and yet we're less likely to believe in our capability for success. This presentation looks to help everyone in tech overcome her or his Imposter Syndrome, empowering you with tricks that can help position you for the right jobs, roles and collaborators in just 15 minutes a day. This will include presenting yourself online in the most favorable (and Googleable) light including branding, image, and social media networks like Twitter and LinkedIn.
Watch the accompanying webinar at https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/43/247985?utm_source=BrightTALK&utm_medium=brighttalk&utm_campaign=247985
The people who will succeed today are those who figure out how to benefit from, or take advantage of, continuous disarray, disorder and disruption. In this webinar, Bill Jensen will identify the habits most necessary for success in today’s world full of disruption. Attendees will learn from disruptive heroes about how they have become masters of disruption simply because they refuse to accept the status quo.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
Five habits most necessary for success in a disruptive world.
The how-tos and why-musts of disruption.
Key lessons from disruptive heroes about how they are changing the game.
Finding My Voice + Learning to Trust my Gut - from LeanIN Toronto LaunchIdeas 2 Propel U
I gave this talk at the LeanIN Toronto Launch party on September 24 to a group of 300 amazing women. It is all about finding your voice and being yourself and not letting anyone else tell you otherwise.
Format: Interactive seminar/workshop
Time: 60 - 90 min
Target Audience: Researchers, Staff members, graduate students (in any)
Learning objectives:
By the end of this session, participant will:
•Understand what imposter fears are and learn to recognize them;
•Be able to identify cognitive distortions that prevent women from taking actions;
•Identify strategies to overcome self-doubt and build resilience.
Presentation about how you can make effect in your organization.
Presented at Agile Tour Toronto, Agile Ottawa and PMI-SOC Professional Development Day.
7 Steps to Becoming a Thought Leader | December 2018BeLeaderly.com
Thought leaders are not just executives any more. You can become one too. In this webinar, learn how to identify your niche, express your expertise in ways that fit your personal style, and become a sought-after expert. You’ll walk away with a practical plan to share your passion and build your personal brand at the same time.
Guest Speakers: Christoph Trappe, Chief Content Engagement Director, Stamats Business Media, author of Get Real: Telling Authentic Stories for Long-term Success and Serpil Bayraktar, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco.
From system performance to application metrics, we continue to further our understanding of what to monitor, why, and how to present it appropriately to the various audiences who need to act on this information. Yet there are things across our environment that we agree we can’t measure because they are unquantifiable. That doesn’t mean that there is zero signal to be analyzed and monitored.
We can look at open source software that is in wide use, yet becomes stale and unusable after years due to the atrophy of maintainers keeping it up to date with security and integrations with other software, or implementation of new features that keep it useful. How do you measure the health of your current implemented software solutions so that you know when to start planning change, or committing intentional time to a project?
In this talk, I’ll tackle these questions in addition to sharing other observations about monitoring within our environments with the goal of inspiring others to examine available signals, their impact, and the value of monitoring.
Are you trying to build cookbooks within your organization but are unclear about how to get your coworkers involved? Maybe you've learned the Chef primitives and architecture but you're not sure how to distill that knowledge into patterns that others can follow? In this collaborative workshop, we will spend the day working together to craft a community cookbook from scratch using both Chef and community resources. In the process, we'll learn some key patterns of DevOps practices.
Effective DevOps - Pittsburgh Techfest 2016Jennifer Davis
How is this for the abstract for the keynote:
DevOps is a cultural movement that changes how we look at work, values the diversity of work done, supports acceleration of realized value, and measures the effect of social and technical change. How do we harness this very powerful force to instill or perpetuate behavior, systems, and culture within an organization? This talk will explore the underlying foundation of devops, demonstrate the framing of a narrative, and stories as a catalyst for positive change.
Magic Myth and the DevOps, ANTIDOTES TO LEARNED HELPLESSNESS AND FEAR CULTURE...Jennifer Davis
"Once upon a time": powerful words that begin many oral
narratives and indicate that the story to be told will be imbued
with magic and myth. Organizational folklore can be a very powerful
force for instilling or perpetuating behavior, systems, and culture
within an organization.
Too often, fear and negativity are the driving forces in the folklore
behind many organizational traditions. A positive narrative that
embraces the customs and traditions of a healthy, balanced feedback
loop can help jumpstart your DevOps journey. This talk will help you
frame your narrative alongside metrics and use folklore as a catalyst
for positive change.
DevOps does not exist in a vacuum; it rests on a social structure and culture that are intertwined. Hierarchies within organizations, industry connections, and globalization all influence culture. At the same time, culture influences social structure and impacts its effectiveness. To complicate matters even more, the tools we use have an overarching influence. Tools can affect our behavior, how we share knowledge, and our organizational hierarchies.
Often, a particular technology is presented as a “best practice” or as the right way to solve a problem. How do we resolve the cognitive dissonance that arises when the “correct” tool is no longer suited to our current environment? As technology increasingly shapes how we work, how do we determine what technologies to adopt to help effect the changes we want?
In this webinar, Chef Software Engineer Jennifer Davis will help you to frame the choices available to you, identify the weaknesses in your environment that your current tools disguise, and be more effective and deliberate with the tools used in your organization.
See the recorded webinar here: https://www.chef.io/blog/event/webinar-effective-tools-for-effective-change/
Effective Devops - Velocity New York 2015 Jennifer Davis
DevOps is a professional and cultural movement designed to improve the processes involved with developing and running computer software and systems. It does this by focusing on communication and collaboration between software developers and operations engineers. DevOps has the potential to improve the products we create as an industry, and the health and well-being of the people creating them.
In this one-day introductory training, you will identify actionable strategies and tools that can be used to leverage DevOps to implement noticeable, long-lasting improvements to your culture and development processes in your environment, regardless of your level and role.
Tools Effecting Change - DevOpsDays Boston 2015Jennifer Davis
DevOps does not exist in a vacuum; social structure and culture are inherently intertwined. The hierarchies within organizations, industry connections, and globalization influence culture. Culture influences social structures, impacting how effective some structures are in an environment with a specific culture. Tools can play a large part in instilling behaviors, automation of systems, sharing knowledge, and changing organizational hierarchies.
Often technology choices are framed as 'best practices' or the right way to solve a problem. How do we resolve the cognitive dissonance that arrises from this fixed mindset, having chosen the best practice and the need to handle change as problems evolve? As technology accelerates our work, how do we determine what tools and technology to adopt to help effect the right change? This talk will help you frame the choices available to you, identify the fragility in your environment disguised by tools now, and to be more effective and deliberate with technology in your organization.
"Once upon a time": powerful words that begin many oral narratives and indicate that the story to be told will be imbued with magic and myth. Organizational folklore can be a very powerful force for instilling or perpetuating behavior, systems, and culture within an organization.
Too often, fear and negativity are the driving forces in the folklore behind many organizational traditions. A positive narrative that embraces the customs and traditions of a healthy, balanced feedback loop can help jumpstart your DevOps journey. This talk will help you frame your narrative alongside metrics and use folklore as a catalyst for positive change.
Effective Devops - AWS Loft Event June 2015Jennifer Davis
Devops is a professional and cultural movement designed to improve the processes involved with developing and running computer software and systems. "Effective DevOps" aims to be a practical guide with actionable strategies that can be used to leverage devops within organizations of various sizes, teaching them how to implement noticeable, long-lasting improvements to their culture and development processes in their environment regardless of their level within their organizations.
"Effective DevOps" is available now as an Early Release from O'Reilly Media. During this special evening event, co-author Jennifer Davis will discuss key concepts from the book followed by a Q&A session, and book signing.
Effective Devops - Collaboration and Tools - Velocity Santa Clara 2015Jennifer Davis
DevOps is a professional and cultural movement designed to improve the processes involved with developing and running computer software and systems. It does this by focusing on communication and collaboration. DevOps has the potential to improve the products we create as an industry, and the health and well-being of the people creating them.
In this one-day introductory training, you will identify actionable strategies and tools that can be used to leverage DevOps to implement noticeable, long-lasting improvements to your culture and development processes in your environment, regardless of your level and role.
Introduction to Chef - Techsuperwomen SummitJennifer Davis
Interested in speeding up time to production when developing an application? Want to understand how to minimize risk associated with changes? Come learn about infrastructure automation with Chef. In this beginner level workshop, I will teach you the core set of skills needed to implement Chef in your environment whether for work or personal projects. I will cover the basic architecture of Chef and the associated tools that will help you improve your application workflow from design to production.
Magic Myth and the Devops - Cascadia IT 2015Jennifer Davis
“Once upon a time”: powerful words that begin many oral
narratives and indicate that the story to be told will be imbued
with magic and myth. Organizational folklore can be a very powerful force for instilling or perpetuating behavior, systems, and culture within an organization.
Too often, fear and negativity are the driving forces in the folklore behind many organizational traditions. A positive narrative that embraces the customs and traditions of a healthy, balanced feedback loop can help jumpstart your DevOps journey. This talk will help you frame your narrative alongside metrics and use folklore as a catalyst for positive change.
Planning Application Resilience - Developer Week 2015Jennifer Davis
Chef is a configuration management and automation framework that can help you manage complexity, speed up deployment, plan for growth and prepare for disaster. Jennifer will walk through features of Chef that allow you to write recipes that describe your system, provision new instances, and use Chef Provisioning to create a sample full stack application topology.
"Once upon a time": powerful words that begin many oral narratives and indicate that the story to be told will be imbued with magic and myth. Organizational folklore can be a very powerful force for instilling or perpetuating behavior, systems, and culture within an organization.
Too often, fear and negativity are the driving forces in the folklore behind many organizational traditions. A positive narrative that embraces the customs and traditions of a healthy, balanced feedback loop can help jumpstart your DevOps journey. This talk will help you frame your narrative alongside metrics and use folklore as a catalyst for positive change.
Implementing Kanban to Improve your WorkflowJennifer Davis
Tutorial from LOPSA East
System, network, and security senior engineers manage intricate relationships ensuring that everything from simple tasks to complex projects gets completed in a timely manner. In this workshop, we will talk about using agile processes to identify, visualize, and improve work.
Outline:
Overview of the kanban process. What is kanban?
Identify common problems.
Define common terminology explicitly.
Work through common problems as a group using kanban.
Identify metrics for improvement.
Review, next steps, additional resources.
At the end of this tutorial, attendees will have a solid understanding of kanban and agile processes to take back to their environments.
Building Large Scale Services - LISA 2013 Jennifer Davis
Yahoo! Service Engineers (SE) specialize in bridging the gap between system administration and development. SEs are tasked with delivering a reliable, consistent quality service through the use of best practices. They must understand network, OS, hardware, and customer use cases; and dive deep into the application internals.
In this talk, Jennifer will describe her journey with the Sherpa service at Yahoo! and lessons learned about building a reliable, consistent, and high-quality service from scratch.
The key takeaway from this talk will be to educate practitioners on successful strategies and pitfalls when building out a service.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
5. Formula for Suc(str)ess
• Start new job
• Work hard to prove self
• Become more efficient,
take on more
responsibility
• Locked in to expectations
built on past performance
10. Hero
• Someone who in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness
displays courage and the will for self sacrifice for some greater good of all
humanity.
11. Hero
• Someone who in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness
displays courage and the will for self sacrifice for some greater good of all
humanity.
• An ordinary someone who in extraordinary circumstances overcomes
challenges.
12. Hero
• Someone who in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness
displays courage and the will for self sacrifice for some greater good of all
humanity.
• An ordinary someone who in extraordinary circumstances overcomes
challenges.
• Someone who performs extraordinary deeds for the benefit of others.
13. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to
something bigger than oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14. Workplace Usage
• Gone the extra mile
• Worked really late hacking up a solution
• Spent all weekend
• Virtue of the quality of brain numbing work
16. Results in ..
• Degradation in relationships
• Sleep deprivation
• Degradation of productivity
• Degradation of creativity
• Mental acuity
• Loss of empathy
17. Results in ..
• Degradation in relationships
• Sleep deprivation
• Degradation of productivity
• Degradation of creativity
• Mental acuity
• Loss of empathy
• Dissatisfaction with job
18. Results in ..
• Degradation in relationships
• Sleep deprivation
• Degradation of productivity
• Degradation of creativity
• Mental acuity
• Loss of empathy
• Dissatisfaction with job
• Loss of self confidence
19. Results in ..
• Degradation in relationships
• Sleep deprivation
• Degradation of productivity
• Degradation of creativity
• Mental acuity
• Loss of empathy
• Dissatisfaction with job
• Loss of self confidence
NOT HEROISM!
20. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research study
• Sleep deprivation impacts the brain consistent with
mild prefrontal lobe dysfunction
• Affects emotional intelligence, self-regard, sense of
independence, empathy, quality of interpersonal
relationships, positive thinking
21. Loss of Self Confidence
• Erin Callan, Lehman Brothers CFO September
2007 – June 2008
• “I did not know how to value who I was versus
what I did. What I did was who I was.”
• “drug addiction – except you’re getting
tremendous positive reinforcement for what
probably is really extremist behavior”
22.
23. 6 Areas resulting in Burnout
• Work overload
• Lack of control over work
• Insufficient rewards
• Workplace community problems
• Lack of fairness – inequality of pay, promotions or workload
• Conflict between personal values and requirements of job.
Sources: Christina Maslach,Ph.D. Professor of Psychology UC Berkeley,
Michael Leiter, Ph.D., Director of the Centre for Organizational Research &
Development
29. Why 40 hour work week?
• “8 for work, 8 for sleep, 8 for what we will”
• 12 years of experimentation by Henry Ford
• <40 hours people weren’t working enough
• >60 hours gives a small productivity boost in short term
• Source: Laws of Productivity, 8 Productivity Experiments you don’t need to
repeat. http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productivity.pdf
34. Workplace Environment
“The biggest issue with railroad workers is
fatigue, not pay. We are paid very well. But
we sacrifice our bodies and minds to work
the long hours it takes to make the money,
not to mention the high divorce rate, self-
medicating, and stress.”
John Paul Wright
35. NTSB Asiana Airlines Flight 214
Why did this airplane crash while executing a
visual approach on a clear day?
• Increased Complexity
• Reliance on automation
• Lack of understanding
http://www.ntsb.gov/news/speeches/hart/hart140624o.html
36. Celebrate being Wrong
• It’s human. No need for humiliation.
• De-escalation of all our holy wars.
• Freedom to experiment.
• Shared experiences.
37. Rites of passage – Junior to Senior
• Ability to listen.
• Freedom to speak.
• Creation of open and transparent environments.
• Encourage everyone to have a voice.
49. 5 conditions of “happy” work environment
• Freedom
• Challenge
• Education
• Positive atmosphere
• Personally meaningful contribution
“Follow your Bliss”: A process for Career Happiness Sheila J Henderson
http://www.angelpersonnel.com.au/assets/Uploads/HendersonFollowyourbliss.pdf Journal of Counseling and
Development Summer 2000 Volume 78
51. Communication – Identify your Team
• Common goal.
• Different roles.
• Diversity of views.
• Same objective.
52. Identify YOUR state
Explicit Vision/Mission Statement
• Have you evaluated the options?
• EVERYONE on the same page?
53. Vision Statement
• Clear statement about the problem
• Direction
• Identity management
• Team cohesion
https://www.flickr.com/photos/victor_lee/51041504
54. Identify YOUR state
• Work Visualization
• Method of tracking work
• Communicate status
• Measure progress
• Identified boundaries
61. Individuals empowered to do work and understand
consequences.
• Freedom
• Challenge
• Education
• Personal meaningful contribution
• Positive environment
66. AH – Your app makes me fat
“My goal for Serious Pony is to help all of us take
better care of our users. Not just while they are
interacting with our app, site, product, but after. Not
just because they are our users, but because they
are people.”
Kathy Sierra
http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat
70. More Presentations
• Jeff Hackert “There I fixed It – Building Humane Automation Systems” Chef Conf
2014
• Adam Jacob Keynote – Chef Conf 2014
• Evan Goer – Thinking of Documentation as Code https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=mEvvc80ZYU8
71. References - Books
• Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error Kathryn Schulz
• What makes a Hero? The surprising Science of Selflessness
• Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions Gary Klein
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business Ben Horowitz
• Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and creating a life of well-being,
wisdom, and wonder Arianna Huffington
72. References - Web
• http://railroadworkersunited.blogspot.com/2013/12/its-time-to-end-crew-fatigue-
and.html
• http://railroadworkersunited.org
• “Follow your Bliss”: A process for Career Happiness Sheila J Henderson
http://www.angelpersonnel.com.au/assets/Uploads/
HendersonFollowyourbliss.pdf Journal of Counseling and Development Summer
2000 Volume 78
• Sleep deprivation reduces perceived emotional intelligence and constructive
thinking skills. Killgore WD http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17765011
• Your app is making me fat. Kathy Sierra
http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat
• Burnout: The exhaustion funnel -
http://mindfulnext.org/burnout-the-exhaustion-funnel/
73. References - Web
• High Tempo, High Consequence. John Allspaw.
http://www.kitchensoap.com/2014/03/13/high-tempo-high-consequence/
• Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation Dan Breznitz
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/05/why-germany-dominates-the-u-s-in-innovation/
• Is there Life After Work? Erin Callan
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/is-there-life-after-work.html?
smid=pl-share&_r=0
• Former Lehman CFO Erin Callan’s Never Going Back. Sheelah Kolhatkar
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-12/former-lehman-cfo-erin-
callans-never-going-back
• Why Crunch modes doesn’t work: Six Lessons. Evan Robinson. http://
legacy.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-lessons
74. References - Web
• Laws of Productivity -
http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productivity.pdf
• Psychology and Industrial Efficiency Hugo Munsterberg 1913 http://
psychclassics.yorku.ca/Munster/Industrial/chap17.htm