Agile + DevOps East 2022 - DevOps Automation
Monday, November 7
Clone of A Quality Engineering Introduction to AI and Machine Learning
NewAlthough there are several controversies and misunderstandings surrounding AI and machine learning, one thing is apparent — people have quality concerns about the safety, reliability, and trustworthiness of these types of systems. Not only are ML-based systems shrouded in mystery due to their largely black-box nature, they also tend to be unpredictable since they can adapt and learn new things at runtime. Validating ML systems is challenging and requires a cross-section of knowledge, skills, and experience from areas such as mathematics, data science, software engineering, cyber-security,...
A Quality Engineering Introduction to AI and Machine Learning
NewAlthough there are several controversies and misunderstandings surrounding AI and machine learning, one thing is apparent — people have quality concerns about the safety, reliability, and trustworthiness of these types of systems. Not only are ML-based systems shrouded in mystery due to their largely black-box nature, they also tend to be unpredictable since they can adapt and learn new things at runtime. Validating ML systems is challenging and requires a cross-section of knowledge, skills, and experience from areas such as mathematics, data science, software engineering, cyber-security,...
Achieving Product Ownership Excellence – What Does “Good” Look Like?
NewWhile there seems to be a clear description of the Product Owner role, the sad reality is that there is a tremendous amount of variety in the “real world”. There are also quite a few impediments standing between Product Owners and effectively doing their jobs. Much of this is due to organizational pressure and misunderstanding rather than by the Product Owners themselves. Well, forget the excuses, pressure, hand waving, and debate. In this workshop, we’re going to explore what solid, fantastic, excellent agile Product Ownership looks like. First, we’ll use a model called the 4 – Quadrants...
Rethinking Product Strategy & Customer Discovery
NewIn many organizations product ideas often lack customer or business validation. Products or features tend to be a manifestation of a HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion) or blind feature matching of a competitor. Likewise, product strategies are often pithy phrases, uninspiring targets, or contain too many goals to be actionable. Neither of these needs to be true! Using lightweight, evidence-based approaches that guide product discovery with demonstrable outcomes is key to finding customers and generating business value. Once a product idea has been refined, a well-designed and deployed...
Continuous Product Road Mapping & Collaborative Prioritization
NewFor a lot of people, product roadmaps are something between a stack of lies and an act of futility. That’s because they are typically just a wishlist of features; often with deadlines that are wild guesses or imposed from On High. What’s worse is that the items in a product roadmap often lack true prioritization, change priority frequently, or are merely prioritized at the whims of a HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion). However, product roadmaps do not need to be riddled with such frustration! Good product roadmaps are useful tools that establish a continuous process that balances...
How to DevOps Your Testing Strategy – An Exercise in Value Stream Analysis
NewThe DevOps movement is here. Companies across many industries are breaking down siloed IT departments and federating them into product development teams. Testing and its practices are at the heart of these changes. Traditionally, IT organizations have been staffed with mostly manual testers and a limited number of automation and performance engineers. To keep pace with development in the new “you build it, you own it” environment, testing teams and individuals must develop new technical skills and even embrace coding to stay relevant and add greater value to the business. DevOps really...
Tuesday, November 8
Hands-on HELM: Templating Your Way to a Brighter Future
NewWith the introduction of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the advancements of software architecture towards the use of microservices and containerized applications, open-source container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes have become extremely popular for automating software deployments. While Kubernetes has helped solve the complexities of container orchestration it has also introduced new complexities dealing with deploying and managing applications. Using an open-source tool like Helm will help reduce the complexities of application deployment, enabling teams to...
Designing (Much) Better Agile Meetings
NewMany teams have been following the same few patterns for facilitating sessions such as Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and backlog refinement events for decades now. However, while these well-trodden approaches can be good starting points, there are ways to make them tremendously more effective with minimal effort. You will learn to design agile meetings that account for your particular circumstances and goals while wasting as little time as possible. First, Arlene will cover Exploring the True Purpose of Agile Meetings – Is the Daily Scrum more about status or planning? Is...
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...
Automated Continuous Compliance Testing in the Cloud Age
Cloud computing is becoming ever more relevant, even in highly regulated industries. As these industries move deeper into the cloud age, compliance and security plays an important part in automated cloud deployment. However, compliance testing is usually left up to manual processes or monitoring tools scanning software solutions that have already been deployed to a given cloud environment. By sharing my story of how I built and distributed an automated continuous compliance test framework for software teams in Novo Nordisk, I hope to inspire the listeners to think about how they can...
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
Languishing with Laggards—Moving from Dead Ops to DevOps
We get it, there is tremendous value in our organizations and customers embracing DevOps practices. We've seen the need, we've experienced the struggle to tranform over the past decade and we're now reaping the benefits. But how do we help our coworkers and customers who may be stuck in low-gear? What are effective strategies to coax them to embrace a DevOps mindset?
Join us for this quick keynote where we share observations about the transformation of the networking industry and how it is changing through enabling new skills and product functionality. If you feel as if you're...
DevSecOps in Practice, What Can and Can’t be Automated
Application Security is a critical part of DevSecOps that isn’t well represented in many projects. This talk will explain how to factor application security into short feedback cycles so that teams aren’t overwhelmed by application security issues or practices at the end of a release or at any time. One of the challenges we have in using Application Security practices is where to start, and how to get value. The world is being driven more and more by network-connected applications and services that are constantly under attack from the curious and malicious. What should you do If you aren’t...
The Chaotic Approach to Modern Testing
We’ve all experienced the ugly face of production outages even after the most thorough traditional tests were run. Functional, usability and business-oriented testing coupled with a healthy mix of performance testing is not enough. Plan for the unexpected. Explore in a systematic way by conducting experiments that can uncover hidden what-if scenarios that traditional testing approaches often miss. This conversation will walk you through the spectrum of Quality Engineering adding Chaos Testing as a powerful tool and ally to conduct systematic exploratory tests with a hint of intelligence...