Agile + DevOps East 2022 - Agile/DevOps Transformations
Wednesday, November 9
Digital Transformation - Role of Distributed Systems Architecture and Design for Success
A key to digital transformation is how fast you deliver the new products to market while modifying or creating new processes by changing the culture and customer experience to a greater extent. During the journey of Digital Transformation, distributed systems architecture and design play a significant role. Specifically, microservices architecture is vital in achieving improved delivery time and quality. Combined with the recent developments of containerization and DevOps, microservices architecture patterns help organizations build scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available system...
Harnessing the Current of C-Level Engagement and Corporate Sponsorship to Attain Superhero Level Invincibility
Without adequate executive buy-in and sponsorship, Agile transformations and DevOps revolutions are largely doomed to fail. When the cards are stacked against you, it becomes increasingly difficult to implement a meaningful strategic campaign. One’s time, energy, and drive all tend to evaporate under the unrelenting drought of support and endorsement.
Buy-in and trust come with a heavy price, though. Patience, persistence, diligence, and diplomacy are all essential ingredients in securing a victory, but so are a grand (even ostentatious) vision, an unrelenting sense of urgency,...
Avoiding the Chaos of an Agile transformation
Agile is not a fairy tale. You have to face real life challenges well prepared in order to succeed. The reality is: the bigger and older your organization is, the more difficult it is to pass through process level changes and that's when Chaos is born. Resolving all the issues with Chaos could potentially take years.
Peter will share his story of one of his projects where he had to face numerous obstacles as a Test Manager in achieving proper Agile implementation and to raise the quality of the products of his client. Some of the obstacles included: agile ceremonies not followed;...
Thursday, November 10
Tips for Executing your First Agile Transformation
Agile transformation can either be the initial phase of digital transformation or a core part of the digitization process. The Agile transformation is a holistic change and places focus on the people using the technology, the process for work being done, and the overall cultural change that is required.
In this session, you'll walk through: how the team planned and initiated an Agile Transformation effort at a local bank here in Jamaica. Next, how they managed the expectations of our stakeholders and brought alignment to all team members on the ground. And finally, the problems...
It’s OK to be UnSAFe – Scale Without Using Someone Else’s Framework
When scaling, many organizations attempt to adopt a framework "from the industry." This often leads to pain and frustration. Instead, scale your agility by embracing your company’s context instead of installing someone else’s framework!
Companies choose a framework like SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, or Spotify not because it’s the BEST for their company, they do it because it’s the SAFE choice (pun intended). This session shares key principles to scaling agile delivery blindly following someone else’s recipe. First, we explore reasons that organizations select an existing scaling framework....
Are You Scaling Agile or Just Failing Agile?
One of the limitations of standard agile methodologies is that they are designed to operate primarily at the team level, with product owners, developers, testers, and other disciplines working together as a single team. So when you want to adopt agile practices on large programs or within large organizations, you will need to think about how to scale your agile processes. However, many of the “off the shelf” agile processes are not really agile at all, resulting in organizations breaking one of the cardinal rules of the agile manifesto - individuals and interactions over processes and...