Your organization has adopted some combination of agile, lean, and DevOps practices, yet you have a sinking feeling that it’s not working the way everyone hoped it would. You’re wondering if it’s because you work for a very large organization and all this talk about small, cross-functional teams seems to conflict with your organizational charts. Your IT department is organized around functional disciplines such as the PMO, business analysis, Test Center of Excellence, and DevOps engineering. Do we need to blow up these structures in order to have successful agile/lean/DevOps...Learn More
Betty Zakheim
Tasktop
VP of industry strategy at Tasktop Betty Zakheim works with IT organizations engaged in agile, lean and/or DevOps transformations, using software lifecycle integration to help them overcome issues caused by siloed development practices. Betty has thirty years of experience in software development and delivery as a software engineer, engineering manager, product manager, a marketing executive—and has walked a mile in just about everyone’s shoes. Betty has spent almost her entire career developing and delivering tools that enable IT teams to be more effective. Her depth of experience has given her a unique perspective of what works and what doesn’t. Follow Betty on Twitter @bettyzakheim.