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Agile + DevOps East 2022 - Enterprise Agile/ DevOps

Tuesday, November 8

Jeff Payne
Coveros
TD

Agile Project Failures: Root Causes and Corrective Actions

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 - 8:30am to 12:00pm

Agile initiatives always begin with high expectations—accelerate delivery, meet customer needs, and improve software quality. The truth is that many agile projects do not deliver on some or all of these expectations. If you want help to ensure the success of your agile project or to get an agile project back on track, this tutorial is for you. Jeffery Payne discusses the most common causes of agile project failure and how you can avoid these issues or mitigate their damaging effects. Poor project management, ineffective requirements development, failed communications, software development...

Wednesday, November 9

Robert Woods
Scrum Inc
W2

Keeping it Lightweight: Scaling Agile the Easy Way

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 10:30am to 11:30am

Far too many scaling concepts require tremendous overhead and turn into something more lightweight than their original intention out of necessity. How can we keep from having to go backwards in out scaling and maintain a lightweight approach from the start? Using [email protected] as the initial framework, many organizations can simply keep their known structures while enjoying increased collaboration and speed to decision-making. As part of this session, attendees will enjoy hearing about how they can start out a scaled Agile approach the easy way while also taking a potentially bulky approach...

KPMG LLP
W4

Reimagining Digital Cloud Transformation : Automation and DevOps Pipeline

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 10:30am to 11:30am

Organizations face numerous challenges during their journey to Digital Cloud Transformation – the most pressing challenges are frequent failures and the absence of a “big-picture” mindset. Driven by KPMG’s quest to deliver a superior customer experience, our Digital Cloud Transformation framework delivers improved quality, reduced time to market, reliability, and sustainable Cloud Transformation. Moving away from the archaic approach from replicating traditional regression onto cloud integration validations, KPMG has helped customers minimize risk and increase test coverage by E2E...

Google
W6

MLOps for Agile Data Science at Scale

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 10:30am to 11:30am

Agile organizations have been successful in improving collaboration and reducing waste in software development. They have also learned to automate and streamline their software delivery process. But many teams are still struggling to leverage the same agile principles to their artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. Operationalization of Machine Learning (ML) models at scale is an increasing challenge and a barrier to AI adoption for many companies. Join JL Marechaux as he explores how Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Operations teams can leverage DevOps practices to deliver machine...

Bob Galen
Zenergy Technologies
W8

The 4-Quadrants of Product Ownership – Exploring What “Good” Looks Like

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 11:45am to 12:45pm
The product owner role was introduced in Scrum in 1993. So, the role has been around for ~25 years. Yet, still, we struggle with its nature. Is it simple or complex? Is it inward or outwardly facing? It is about backlogs and stories or something more? And is ‘ownership’ the whole point?In this talk, Bob Galen will share his 4-Quadrants model for what effective (good) product ownership looks like in the real world. It will start with balance because the role is so broad and deep in its nuance. The essence of the 4-quadrants says that there are product, project, analyst, and leadership parts to...
TAB Bank
W9

Harnessing the Current of C-Level Engagement and Corporate Sponsorship to Attain Superhero Level Invincibility

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 11:45am to 12:45pm

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,...

Northrop Grumman
Robin-yeman
Catalyst Campus for Technology & Innovation
W16

Industrial DevOps: Responding to Misconceptions

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Industrial DevOps (IDO) extends the original concept of DevOps used primarily in software environments into cyber-physical world to account for complex system of systems, which include hardware, firmware, and software. The intent of IDO is to enable significant cyber-physical systems development programs to be more responsive to changing needs while reducing lead times. It is the application of continuous flow, continuous improvement, and 8 IDO principles to the development, manufacturing, deployment, and serviceability of significant cyber-physical systems.

In this discussion, we...

Janna_Loeffler
mParticle
W17

Test Automation in CI/CD

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

CI/CD pipelines need quality gates in order to deliver and deploy code responsibility. What does that look like? Why is it important to have a test automation strategy for your CI/CD pipeline? We all hate build times that take hours due to waiting on test automation which is why it is so important to strategically think through your test automation. Join Janna as she does a deeper diver into test automation strategies for CI/CD. She’ll talk about different types of test automation, guidelines around your automated tests, and how it all works together in your CI/CD pipeline. Learn how you...

Thursday, November 10

QualityWorks Consulting Group
T3

Tips for Executing your First Agile Transformation

Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 10:00am to 11:00am

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...

Dan Neumann
AgileThought
T9

It’s OK to be UnSAFe – Scale Without Using Someone Else’s Framework

Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

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....

T10

Bridging the DevOps Divide - How to Bring in the Mainframe

Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

Large organizations will have mainframe applications. While DevOps may be very mature on the distributed side, it is often overlooked for the mainframe applications. This can cause unnecessary issues with development timeframes and deliveries. As the applications depend on each other, so do the teams, yet they are often running isolated parallel development. The solution is to bring the mainframe applications, and developers into DevOps. But how? I will describe how this has been successfully done at many sites focusing on a practical 10 step approach. Attendees will leave with a knowledge...

Adam Sandman
Inflectra
T15

Are You Scaling Agile or Just Failing Agile?

Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

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...