The following is an excerpt from a presentation originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. You can also watch the video of the presentation. What I’ve been working on recently is the question, 'how do we get business leadership on board?' And here's what I think the problem statement is: "Great CEO's and board directors know how to run great companies. They're fearless about insisting on process excellence — whether it be the sales pipeline forecasts, … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Naomi Lurie, Director of Product, and Laksh Ranganathan, Senior Solutions Consultant at Tasktop, titled “What Enterprise IT Can Learn From a Startup’s Journey.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. Naomi Lurie A little bit about us We're from Tasktop. We’re not strictly a startup anymore, rather we’re a small company. We were founded in 2007 in … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Fin Goulding, International CIO at Aviva, titled “Flow: Taking Agile Forward.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. I'm Fin Goulding, International CIO at Aviva. Our organization is quite large, we’ve got thousands of customers, thousands of engineers, thousands of systems. We've got a structure whereby we've got CIOs across different regions, and … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Randy Lyons, NDe EMEA Sr. Director, and Michele Power, CFO Nike Direct EMEA, at Nike titled “My Partner the CFO: At the Table Together to Drive Growth.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. Randy Lyons We're super excited to share... The transformation that our business has been going through The transformations my team has been going … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Oliver Cantor, Sanjeev Jain, and John Scott of Verizon titled “DevOps Is Not a Hobby but a New Avenue to Revenue.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. Sanjeev Jain Let me start with a story. About three years back I walked into an Executive Leadership Team (ELT) meeting. That meeting is made up of a CEO for the EMEA region, a CFO, a CMO, head of … [Read more...]