Agile + DevOps East 2022 - Agile Team Member

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...

When I began my journey as a QA Specialist nearly a decade ago, I had a lot to learn about testing, but the more sprint meetings I attended, the more it felt like the Dungeons & Dragons table. It turns out that fighting hordes of the undead and hunting down software bugs have more than a few things in common. What did playing a rogue with a clumsy streak teach me about software development? In this interactive session, I will explore three crossover strategies gaming taught me about the quest for quality, how to better partner with your QA team, and creative ways to spend your time...

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,...

Using metrics in agile has been an elusive endeavor, and how to use those metrics for good, not evil. Too often we see metrics used to compare agile teams, and question the wrong things. Too often we solution before we understand what the true need is. We took a different approach of not just using the standard agile metrics to help teams with efficiency, but working more closely with our leaders on data needed to help drive decisions around staffing, work prioritization, and value delivered. Through interviews and a focus on educating different levels of business and IT leaders, we were...

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...