Large organizations can be filled with manual processes, and many people feel they are stuck with them. Bill Roberts and James La Spada tell the story of how Capital One used DevOps culture and kanban principles to significantly increase the speed of feature delivery—while lowering risk. Their team took the name Meteor, inspired by the big one that took out the dinosaurs, because they wanted to cause the mass extinction of these manual processes. Work at Capital One was previously completed manually, and many inefficiencies were evident. Bill and James helped drive the...
James La Spada
Capital One
A technology professional for more than ten years, James La Spada started his career in application development. He is passionate about learning new technologies and innovating to improve efficiency and quality. James broadened his overall IT knowledge by working his way through different areas within technology. His overall career experience has included performance and automation, mobile native and web application development, application development, and his newfound passion, DevOps.